Nevada Politics

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Las Vegas police investigating an alleged Nevada Assembly extortion scheme are looking for evidence that Republican political consultant Tony Dane conducted illegal wiretapping and filed false public documents....

Don’t fret, Clark County. It’s only an April Fools’ Day joke from the good sports at Las Vegas City Hall....

The Nevada State Law Enforcement Officers’ Association is withdrawing its endorsement of Assemblyman Randy Kirner, provided to him in March of 2014.

In a letter to Assemblyman Kirner dated March 31, 2015, NSLEOA President Sean Giurlani stated:

Las Vegas leaders plan Wednesday to unveil the city’s first balanced budget in nearly a decade, a $524 million preliminary spending plan that includes some $3 million to hire 35 new employees....

Las Vegas is vying to be an official host site for a presidential debate on the 2016 campaign trail, the Convention and Visitors Authority announced Wednesday....

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told state legislators Wednesday to go back to the drawing board to amend the bill that would have made Arkansas the 21st state with a “religious freedom” law on the books....

A group of Nevada Republicans are leading the charge to repeal the state's Common Core K-12 education standards. Assemblyman Brent Jones is the primary bill sponsor of AB 303 and will present the bill Wednesday before ......

Now that CNN's Dana Bash has found Harry Reid to be unrepentant about his Mitt Romney tax lies, it's finally time to publish a column I wrote contemporaneously with the Nevada senator's McCarthy-like tactic during t...

With only a bit of theater, the Senate Revenue and Economic Development Committee on Tuesday passed the governor’s proposed Business License Fee.It was a 4-3 party line vote after all but one of the committee members ...

Nevada Republicans are a lot like the Donner Party; without someone as juicy as Harry Reid to pick on, they wind up eating their own....

The parents of three children who were reportedly bullied in the Clark County School District, including one middle school student who committed suicide, gave emotional testimony Tuesday in support of a bill sought by Gov. Brian Sandoval to combat the problem....

Legislative money committees spent most of this week processing what are known as supplemental appropriations.Those are added funding needed to get through the rest of this budget cycle caused by unanticipated increas...

Controller Ron Knecht and a group of Assembly Republicans headed by Jim Wheeler of Gardnerville rolled out a budget plan they say would fund the governor’s education enhancements without raising ...

Public employees lined up in the Assembly Government Affairs Committee on Monday to protest legislation the author conceded is designed to save money by reducing the average employee retirement check.Assemblyman Glenn...

The first County Commission meeting of April will be held Thursday at 8:15 a.m. at the Churchill County Administration Building chambers, 155 N. Taylor St.Among the items commissioners will discuss and that are up f...

Plenty of people might run for retiring U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s Senate seat, but not former U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., or the senator’s son, Rory Reid....

A group of Republican Assembly members who unveiled a no-new-tax budget wants Nevada to stop fighting a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The group is calling for some major cuts to ......

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for education by tying state business license fees to gross receipts was approved Tuesday by a Senate committee on a party-line vote....

A bill that would allow investors to join business entities and share the profits and losses from huge wagers at Nevada sports books was heard Tuesday by a Senate committee....

Terminally ill patients would be allowed to try drugs not fully approved by the Federal Drug Administration under a bill approved today by the Assembly Health and Human Service Committee.
Assemblyman James Ohrenschall, D-Las Vegas, the author of the bill, said ......

Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital has won back accreditation by a national organization lost in 2013 following allegations of patient dumping....

An official with the Department of Veterans Affairs who drew the ire of two Nevada members of Congress is departing as director of the Reno regional benefits office, the department confirmed Tuesday....

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent populist who may challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, said if he runs it will be to take on “the billionaire class” getting richer while America’s middle class declines....

A bill designed to increase the number of organ donors in Nevada was passed Tuesday by a Nevada Senate committee and was on its way to the Senate floor....

A little-known driving force for the often gruff and impolitic Harry Reid is his 60-year love affair with his wife....

Gov. Mike Pence pledged Tuesday to “fix” Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law to clarify that it does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians....

A lot of sound and fury is expected at the Legislature Tuesday as supporters of a bill challenging federal control of Nevada public lands descend on the capital by the busload, but it will all be for naught — the proposal has been declared unconstitutional....

Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and scores of supporters are gathering in Carson City to support a bill seeking to reclaim land from the federal government. Bundy's son Ammon Bundy said one bus from Phoenix and another from Las Vegas brought more than ......

If you are one of the reflexive haters or conspiracy theorists who don’t believe Harry Reid had his face bashed in by an exercise band, even though there is not a scintilla of evidence to say otherwise, here are the top 10 more plausible suspects than