Nevada Politics

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Monday told a crowd of about 400 people in Las Vegas that he applies conservative values — not just talks about them — as he seriously considers a run for president in 2016....

Republican Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson earned praise and pledges of bipartisan cooperation Monday for his bill that would tighten Nevada’s employment discrimination laws and provide remedies to promote equal pay for equal work....

Uniformed Secret Service police have arrested two people who breached security at the White House and triggered brief lockdowns at the presidential residence, the Secret Service said on Monday....

Protesters gathered outside the Nevada Legislature today to preemptively rebuke a Republican-backed resolution calling for the federal government to transfer public lands to the state. Detractors say a state land grab ......

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the United States on Monday that the nuclear deal it is negotiating with Iran could threaten Israel’s survival and insisted he had a “moral obligation” to speak up about deep differences with President Barack Obama on the issue....

The geniuses seeking to recall Speaker John Hambrick because he dared to suggest the state might need more money for education, which is what two-thirds of Nevadans believe, have begun dropping ...

California Republicans broke from their own platform on Sunday and voted overwhelmingly at their state party convention to give official recognition to a gay rights wing of the GOP that has long been marginalized....

Use of electronic cigarettes and liquid nicotine would be regulated the same as tobacco under a bill introduced in the Nevada Senate on Monday....

Assemblyman Richard Carrillo was back at work in the Nevada Legislature on Monday following his arrest last week on alleged drunken driving and a weapons charge....

In October 2003, Jeb Bush unveiled one of the largest economic projects in Florida history: a $500 million plan to bring Scripps Research Institute to the state and build a biomedical hub he said would generate nearly 50,000 jobs in 15 years....

Likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush is making the first of what could be many visits to Las Vegas with a stop today at a community center in Sun City Summerlin. Bush will stop by ......

The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance is meeting Tuesday morning to review several tax studies, and may endorse one of them....

A majority of likely Nevada voters back Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to raise taxes to bring in more money for education, with 56 percent backing his proposed higher business license fee and 41 percent opposing the idea, according to a new poll released Monday....

Team Sandoval has created a nonprofit, Nevada Can Do Better, to help sell his tax plan, and released a new poll showing, among other things:
----Obama, 44-51 (Vegas-46-49!)
----Sandoval, 75-17. Wow.
----Legislature, 40-22. Nearly 40 percent with no opinion. Amazing.
----78 percent say public schools...

A bill making its way through the Nevada Legislature hopes to change that by helping prepare home caregivers for the tasks they will face and keeping them in the loop when decisions are about aftercare....

A presidential shout-out last year turned local immigration activist Astrid Silva into an instant celebrity. The UNLV student was thrust into the national spotlight as the face of President Barack Obama’s plan to spare millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. But Silva isn’t the only l...

Neither a decade of lobbying nor the passage of two congressional resolutions has won a presidential pardon for famed boxer Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champ widely believed to have been unjustly convicted of a morals crime more than a century ago....

Clark County child welfare workers should have the freedom to voice job-related concerns to the news media, contends the union that represents them. But a Family Services media policy revision enacted by county officials in 2014 means they now have to get permission from the department director ...

After more than a year of mewling and howling, Clark County leaders may soon decide who gets to run Nevada’s largest animal shelter. A county commissioners’ meeting set for March 17 could settle what appears to be a two-way race....

Earlier this week, amid scrutiny about how O’Reilly has recounted some of his journalistic exploits, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America drew new attention to Morley’s fact-checking....

The United States and five other major powers are seeking to negotiate an agreement with Iran to curb its nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions....

If Gov. Brian Sandoval really wants to make an economic impact on the state, he’ll make room in his budget for a UNLV medical school....

If Nevada doesn’t reform rules that currently protect teachers based on seniority rather than performance, Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison says the state is just setting itself up for a lawsuit like the one which t...

CARSON CITY — An inmate serving time for possession of a stolen vehicle in Clark County has died at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City. Nevada Department of Corrections officials say 52-year-old Ja...

State Sen. Richard “Tick” Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, and Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, introduced Senate Bill 99 in February to repeal the state’s version of the federal Adam Walsh Act. Critics have said the law disenfranchises juveniles who could be reformed, and many think the way the...

Paying Clark County government employees for time spent doing union business cost taxpayers $346,000 in 2013....

If this week was any indication, Republicans could spend much of the 2016 presidential election attacking Democrats as weak on national security, rather than focusing on the economic concerns that have preoccupied voters in recent years....

Wisconsin unions bussed in thousands of workers from around the state on Saturday to demonstrate against the impending adoption of a law that would ban private sector workers from being required to join a union or pay dues....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is just days away from landing in Washington, where a storm is raging over his plans to address a joint session of Congress....

Local governments say they need the ability to reopen collective bargaining agreements in times of fiscal emergencies.But union officials told members of the Senate Government Affairs Committee SB168 goes too far and ...