Nevada Politics

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will undergo another round of surgery Wednesday to repair his eye following exercise-related injuries ......

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will undergo another round of surgery Wednesday to repair his eye following exercise-related injuries ......

Michele Fiore has a radio show.
This, in and of itself, is not very interesting. If you listen to talk-radio, you realize: Anyone can have a radio show.
But on her program this weekend, Assemblywoman Fiore was joined by three other members of the Ass. GOP Caucus -- so almost one-sixth of that group ...

President Obama has been criticized in the wake of his speech last week to the National Prayer Breakfast, but that criticism mostly misses the point: The president’s grasp of faith is actually quite mature....

Senator Harry Reid will return to the hospital on Wednesday morning for follow-up surgery on his right eye that was damaged in a freak exercise accident at his home on New Year’s Day, according to a spokeswoman....

Former Secretary of State Ross Miller has been hired as vice president for business development and general counsel at Fine entertainment in Las Vegas.He said the position will allow him to use both his business and l...

Jim Wells has been named interim Director of Administration replacing Julia Teska who resigned effective March 2.Wells is currently executive director of the Public Employee Benefits Program. Prior to that, he was dep...

A Dallas-based company is offering to store high-level used nuclear fuel at a site in West Texas until the government can find a place to permanently bury the highly radioactive waste....

Gov. Brian Sandoval named a new interim budget director Monday to replace Julia Teska, who is leaving her cabinet post to join her family in Colorado and accept a new opportunity....

Local government officials said while they’ve weathered the economic downturn by cutting budgets and services, they don’t expect their biggest revenue source to return to peak performance for a decade or two....

A Nevada lawmaker is proposing a bill that would loosen restrictions on disclosing political advertising contributions. Republican state Sen. James Settelmeyer is sponsoring Senate Bill 104, which would exempt political candidates from ......

President Barack Obama defended himself against critics of his foreign policy, arguing he’s well aware of the challenges facing the nation internationally and has made strides in confronting them....

When Republicans swept Nevada’s ballot in November, political insiders handed a big slice of credit to one man — Chris Carr. Carr funded a nonprofit called ......

When federal employees get together for training and meetings, fancy lunches aren’t on the menu anymore. In fact, food of any kind — tuna fish sandwiches, green salad, oatmeal cookies — can no longer be served by the government. Even coffee ......

If you’ve got business you’d like to see taken up by the Legislature this session, it can pay to send in a professional ......

The votes are in and U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada is the winner. Sort of....

Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz and state Controller Ron Knecht, two fiscal conservatives swept into office by the Republican wave, have released an alternative Nevada budget to rival GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval’s spending plan....

North Korea tested what it described as a new type of “cutting-edge” anti-ship missile with its leader Kim Jong Un pictured beaming at the launch, as shown in state media on Saturday....

Republican lawmakers made it clear in the first week of the 2015 Nevada legislative session that there is a new sheriff in town....

The Internal Revenue Service has limited the amount of free federal tax forms it will provide to places that participate in the Tax Forms Outlet Program, including libraries in the Las Vegas Valley and Boulder City....

Session after session, local governments have brought their case to the Legislature asking for at least some control over purely local issues and problems.Their pleas have largely fallen on deaf ears in a ...

All eyes and most of the talk has been focused on the $1.1 billion worth of extended sunsets and new taxes in Gov. Brian Sandoval’s recommended 2016-17 budget.That includes $544.5 million over the biennium by extending the “tem...

Henderson city employees could be fired for talking to a news reporter under a new and highly unusual policy....

State Health Officer Tracey Green told lawmakers on Friday despite the concerns raised by some parents, there’s no proven connection between vaccinations — including for measles — and autism in children.Green said she and count...

None of Las Vegas or North Las Vegas’ City Council incumbents will win re-election without a fight. Three might even have to fight a soccer stadium....

A panel of lawmakers spent Friday afternoon learning about Nevada’s live entertainment tax, a levy that generates more than $150 million a year but is filled with loopholes....

The head of the Democratic National Committee met Friday with Nevada activists to discuss strategies to defeat a proposed voter ID law that could hurt the party’s turnout here in the 2016 presidential election....

The standing ovation for retired Army Staff Sgt. Shilo Harris was so long and loud that he pulled his ears off — the artificial ones doctors had made for him during his long road to recovery from a bomb blast in Iraq....

A Senate committee has passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would provide money to build new schools but suspend wage rules favored by unions. The Senate Government Affairs Committee approved ......

In a devastating setback for proponents of a stadium funded partially with public money, Judge Jerry Wiese ruled Friday that the measure can go on the June ballot.
In so doing, Wiese parsed the meaning of the constitutional definitions the city had relied on, shredded the government's arguments and ...