Nevada Politics

Nevada lawmakers are reviewing a bill that would expand anti-discrimination language into parts of state law where it was omitted. Democratic Sen. David Parks presented SB164 on Thursday. It would bar discrimination based on ......

Nevada lawmakers will soon take up right to die legislation, just as California lawmakers are also doing, with a bill having passed through a state senate committee vote last month.

The committee on health cleared the California End of Life Option Act, March 25 on a vote of 6-2. The legislation is closely modeled on Oregon’s Death with Dignity legislation, allowing a terminally ill individual with six months or less to live the right to request and receive a prescription medication to hasten death in certain narrow circumstances.

Water experts and lawmakers on Thursday urged a Senate committee to restore funding for Nevada’s cloud seeding program to help squeeze as much moisture out of the sky as possible, should Mother Nature bring storms into the Silver State next winter....

A lawyer for a Nevada political consultant is waging a federal court fight against search warrants that he says amount to a fishing expedition by investigators in an extortion probe involving the state Legislature. Attorney David Otto declares in documents filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas ...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a religious freedom measure into law on Thursday after state lawmakers overhauled their proposal so that it mirrors the federal law....

The Nevada Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would raise the speed limit to 80 mph on some freeways and highways if the Department of Transportation deems it is safe....

The Senate passed a Republican-backed bill Thursday that would make background checks free for gun sales between private parties, although it wouldn't make them mandatory. Republican Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson is ......

By a 16-4 vote, the state Senate today approved a bill to allow the maximum speed limit in Nevada to be raised from 75 to 80 mph. Sen. Don Gustavson, R-Sparks, said ......

Bicyclists might have to start sharing the road with motorized wheelchair users under a proposed Nevada law. Democratic Sen. Mo Denis is sponsoring SB 354 and presented the bill Thursday to ......

Michele Bachmann is comparing President Obama to the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight....

Lawmakers who say they're tired of deciding landscaping, parking and trash can disputes are trying to delegate homeowner association legislation to a more ......

A Nevada Assembly committee is expected to decide on two bills requiring voters to show identification in order to cast a ballot. The Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on AB253 and AB266. The measures would ......

Las Vegas will receive $3 million from the federal government to guard against terrorism, a three-fold increase over last year, sources said on Thursday....

The GOP has more than 30 bills seeking to reform collective bargaining, prevailing wage, health benefits, workers compensation and other laws rebuked by organized labor as ......

The Legislative Counsel has issued a letter stating in her opinion, AB408, which would claim state ownership and control over all federal lands in Nevada, is unconstitutional.”The authority of the United States to acq...

Rep. Mark Amodei drew about 30 residents to a small townhall meeting at the state’s tourism offices Wednesday to discuss issues ranging from the sage grouse to BLM handling of issues w...

Friday is the deadline for municipal election candidates to file their second campaign contribution and expense report.The report covers contributions and expenses from March 14 through April 2 and must be filed elect...

Nevada would scrap its caucus system for a presidential preference primary under a bill considered Wednesday by a Senate committee....

Hookers love Harry Reid for getting them health care, and for fighting for their “pan-sexual desires,” so they’re offering to host his retirement party....

The curriculum to implement Common Core is so confusing that parents can’t even help their elementary school-age children do their homework, a state lawmaker said Wednesday in support of a bill to repeal the controversial educational standards in Nevada....

The opening of Nevada’s first medical marijuana dispensaries suffered another setback Wednesday — though perhaps a short one — when a state committee delayed adoption of pesticide rules....

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller on Wednesday played down any notion that Nevada might suffer much from a loss of political power when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid retires....

Use of electronic cigarettes would be subject to the same restrictions in Nevada as tobacco smoking under a bill heard Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee....

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's decision to retire has sparked a very public feud between the No. 2 and No. 3 Senate Democrats, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Chuck Schumer of New York. The two are longtime colleagues and former housemates in a group home on Capitol Hill who have ......

A Nevada assemblyman who broke rank with fellow Republicans on a key bill opposed by unions has moved from a committee where he was a swing voter. Assemblyman Glenn Trowbridge, a Las Vegas Republican who was appointed to his seat by the all-Democrat Clark County Commission and who has described him...

U.S. Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey was indicted on corruption charges, allegations that the high-ranking lawmaker said he would address at a news conference on Wednesday night....

Several Republican governors likely to run for president have secured hundreds millions of dollars under Obamacare while working to dismantle the healthcare law, according to a Reuters review of federal spending records....

Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Wednesday that he will do everything in his power to keep nuclear waste out of Yucca Mountain after Nevada Democrat Sen. Harry Reid retires in two years....

A Pahrump brothel has offered to host U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s retirement party. Sheri’s Ranch, 60 miles west of Las Vegas, says several of the senator’s accomplishments have directly improved the lives of Nevada’s legal sex workers and thanked Reid for ......

A scholarship program sought by Gov. Brian Sandoval that would help low-income students attend private schools, including religious schools, won approval in the Assembly on Wednesday and now heads to the Senate....