Nevada Politics

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, in a brief non-interview after his address to the Nevada Legislature Monday, declined to share his opinion of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to raise the state’s business-license fee....

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky built a national reputation on his willingness to challenge Republican orthodoxies. As he launches a 2016 presidential bid, he is reaching out to more traditional voters as well....

Election day has arrived and all eyes are on the race for Las Vegas mayor, where incumbent Carolyn Goodman is looking to win a second term while fending off a strong challenge from fellow city council member Stavros Anthony. Both campaigns have ramped up their get-out-the-vote efforts in advance of...

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., told a joint session of the Nevada Legislature on Monday that, with the Republican takeover, “for the first time in six years, the United States Senate is open for business.”He sai...

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., told a joint session of the Nevada Legislature on Monday that, with the Republican takeover, “for the first time in six years, the United States Senate is open for business.”He sai...

With the campaign clock ticking low, Oscar Goodman late last week decided to weigh in on behalf of his wife and Las Vegas mayoral successor Carolyn Goodman in her increasingly heated battle for re-election....

Republican Sen. Dean Heller says he wants to take advantage of his new seat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee to reform the tax code without raising taxes ......

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller said Monday that wait times for Nevada veterans who have filed benefit claims with the Veterans Administration have improved significantly but remain one of the longest in the nation....

A bill banning gifts from lobbyists to Nevada lawmakers and imposing tougher campaign reporting requirements was approved Monday by a Senate committee....

After thousands of mailers, dozens of TV ads and weeks of campaigning, voters on Tuesday could decide more than two dozen City Council, mayoral and judicial seats in three of Nevada’s largest cities....

A controversial bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns on Nevada college campuses won approval in the Assembly on Monday and now goes to the Senate....

Several Nevada Republicans are trying to scrap the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange launched as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, saying the program is expensive, suffered a rocky start and ...

A Democrat-backed bill requiring Nevada businesses to offer paid sick leave is meeting staunch opposition from several state business groups. Democratic Senate Minority Leader Aaron Ford and Assemblywoman Dina Neal presented SB 259 to the Senate Commerce, Labor and Energy Committee on Monday. The p...

Nevada lawmakers are reviewing a bill that would ban therapies aimed at turning gay young people straight. Democratic Sen. David Parks is sponsoring SB 353 and testified on the bill on Monday during a ......

Likely Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush, who was popular among Spanish-speaking voters while Florida governor, marked himself as “Hispanic” on a 2009 voter registration application, The New York Times reported on Monday....

Several Nevada Republicans are trying to scrap the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange launched as part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. A Senate committee held a hearing Monday to review SJR14, which proposes a constitutional ban on ......

The Department of Justice now is investigating Cliven Bundy and the dozens of militiamen who traveled from across the country to defend him. But it’s not clear what prosecutors will decide to do with the case, or when they will make a decision. In the meantime, some say the government’s inaction ha...

A big campaign war chest helps candidates in many ways, one of the most important being the ability to reach voters. Goodman and her main opponent, City Councilman Stavros Anthony, both have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on television ads, signs, billboards and mailers to blanket Las Vegas...

In some ways Tuesday’s municipal primary election looks like it did in 2011, at least in Las Vegas....

In theory, campaign donations and spending are public. But as one outside group’s spending in Henderson shows, it can be hard to figure out who’s really behind the money that fuels elections....

Rick Santorum says he’d hoped Indiana Gov. Mike Pence would veto the “fix” to his state’s religious freedom law rather than limiting its scope....

More than 30 “tough-on-crime” type bills under consideration in the Legislature this year could end up being tough on the pocketbooks of Nevada taxpayers as well, to the tune of millions of scarce general fund dollars...

Reno Assemblyman Randy Kirner squeaked to an 11-vote victory in his District 26 seat in the November general election against a fellow Republican opponent, and support from a statewide law enforcement coalition might have helped him win another term....

In a surprise move, Nevada’s fourth most populous city is looking at outsourcing its human resources department....

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid might be retiring, but that isn’t stopping him from being provocative....

Nevada’s 63 lawmakers took a pay cut Friday as the session passed its 60th day.Under the state constitution, legislators are only paid their salary for the first 60 days of any regular session. Friday was day 61.That ...

It’s not too early to stard handicapping the field in the 2016 U.S. Senate race....

Michael McDonald is the chairman of the Nevada Republican Party. Republican lawmakers are trying to pass tort reform now that they control both houses. And Michael McDonald has been hired by perhaps the state's best-known lawyer as tort reform bills are pending.
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Las Municipal Court has a “money hungry” approach to misdemeanor warrants that prioritizes revenue collection above public safety and pressures marshals to take a credit card payment in lieu of locking up violent offenders, according to several current and former city employees and lawyers and d...

Nevada’s abrupt closure of a juvenile correction campus in Clark County is being challenged by the nonprofit that ran the facility and is raising questions about possible contract violations....