Nevada Politics

The Fernley Republican Women held its annual Christmas/Installation Dinner Dec. 15, when the Honorable Judge Leon Aberasturi administered the Oath of Office to incoming officers. Next yea ...

The Fernley Republican Women held its annual Christmas/Installation Dinner Dec. 15, when the Honorable Judge Leon Aberasturi administered the Oath of Office to incoming officers. Next yea ...

The Nevada Human Resources Division has set up an exit interview system for employees leaving state service.Division Administrator Lee-Ann Easton said the idea is, “employees who choose to leave their ...

County commissioners approved the adoption of the 2015 Master Plan for Churchill County at their most recent meeting.The collaboration, presented by Planning Director Michael Johnson, is de ...

Nevada starts 2016 a week from now with a solid tailwind regarding population growth, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau estimates and related analysis.A bureau release this week based on growth f ...

RENO — Fifteen years after U.S. regulators started assessing damage and health risks at an abandoned Nevada copper mine, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving to designate the contaminated land ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Santa Claus is coming to town, and for the 60th consecutive year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command will continue its tradition of telling youngsters the loca ...

More than 72,000 Nevadans have enrolled in health insurance through the Nevada Health Link system.That’s more than double the 35,000 who had enrolled at this time in the open enrollment process last y ...

Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison has filed suit in Clark County District Court on behalf of parents who want state money to send their children to private schools.The lawsuit was filed on behalf of families wh ...

In due respects to American novelist Thomas Wolfe, one Fallon sailor has discovered he can return home again to remember the smell of sagebrush and to enjoy a lifestyle associated with the ...

CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval sealed the deal Saturday to bring a $1 billion electric car manufacturing plant to North Las Vegas after Nevada lawmakers gave final approval.

The Nevada Legislature, as a parting shot to end the special session, on Saturday passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 1 — an attempt to influence the ongoing litigation over the constitutionality of t ...

With “no” votes by the same four members on all of the measures, the Assembly on Saturday afternoon approved the bills to implement the Faraday electric car deal and finish the task of the ...

With “no” votes by the same four members on all of the measures, the Assembly on Saturday afternoon approved the bills to implement the Faraday electric car deal and finish the task of the ...

RENO — It sounded like one of those win-win situations that are so hard to find when divvying up public lands in the West. A rural Nevada town near the Utah line would get to build their new water storage tank, an ...

The Senate finished its work on the Faraday Future tax package Friday night. The Senate passed Senate Bill 1, the Assembly bill and two water infrastructure bills late ...

The Nevada Assembly passed AB1, Friday evening, 37-4. The vote is part of the Special Session, called by Governor Brian Sandoval. The session was called to allow tax $335 million in tax incentives and infrastructure costs to bring Faraday Future to the Silver State.

Senate Bill 1, the primary piece of legislation to make the Faraday Future deal happen, got hung up in the Senate Thursday night.Opponents say legislative language m ...

CARSON CITY — State lawmakers Thursday dissected details of two bills that would give Faraday Future hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits and abatements, and establish a workforce training program to prepare Nevadans to work at the electric car maker's $1 billion assembly plant proposed for the Apex industrial site in Southern Nevada.

The Nevada Legislature convened in special session Wednesday evening to consider three bills that will implement the deal bringing electric carmaker Farad ...

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson made an appearance in Carson City Wednesday to discuss his political platform in a “Meet Ben Carson” rally.Nearly 400 ...

The legislative Interim Finance Committee on Wednesday approved using $3.68 million in federal and civil settlement money to begin testing the state’s huge backlog of untested rape kits.The kits conta ...

It looks like everyone is coming to Carson City for the Special Session.

CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval late Tuesday issued a proclamation calling the Nevada Legislature into session beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday to consider a package of tax incentives to bring the startup electric car manufacturer Faraday Future to Southern Nevada.

Assemblywoman Victoria Dooling, R-Henderson, on Tuesday told the legislative Sunset Committee the existing committee that reviews the pay of Nevada elected officials lacks the power to take politics o ...

Giving lawmakers and the Legislative Counsel Bureau less than 24 hours to pull things together, Gov. Brian Sandoval late Tuesday issued a proclamation calling a special Legislative session to give F ...

A powerhouse Washington, D.C., lobbying firm founded by Paul Laxalt, a native Nevada son and former governor and U.S. senator, is shutting its doors, his daughter said Tuesday.

Michelle Laxalt said her father's declining health forced the decision to close the Paul Laxalt Group that took root nearly three decades ago.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s campaign swing through Nevada during the past five days renewed a long-standing friendship with a Fallon pastor.Sam Stanton, pastor of the ...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of a handful of Republicans running for his party’s presidential nomination, made a quick two-day campaign swing to Carson City, Fallon an ...