Nevada Politics

Fallon paid its final respects Thursday to a former mayor who many said made a big difference in his “adopted” city, the Oasis of Nevada.A memorial service was held at Smith Family Funeral Home t...

The Nevada Fair will feature back-to-back tonight and Saturday night shows at the Carson City Fairgrounds. Manuel Souza will return today with his Smackdown Bull Riding tour, bringing bulls, bron...

With two weeks remaining before the end of the first Silver State Scavenger Hunt, our trip to loop around Northern Nevada began from the s...

The state of Nevada has been awarded $11.2 million from the federal Department of Homeland Security, it’s annual fiscal year funding for emergency management and homeland security projects.Gov. Brian Sandoval said the...

The Nevada Supreme Court has put the unprecedented attempt to recall a North Las Vegas judge from office on hold until an October 5 hearing.Clark County District Judge Eric Johnson ruled the recall election could go f...

Jeffrey Scott Varnum, 48, of Sparks was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison on Wednesday on child pornography charges.The U.S. Attorney’s office said Varnum is a convicted sex offender who failed to register w...

A small band of would-be tax erasers are poised to launch their effort next week, aided by a lawmaker and legislative lawyers who helped them draft the petition to overturn Gov. Brian Sandoval’s largest increase in history....

June was a tough month for Nevada casinos with the total win falling 8.4 percent below the previous June.But the core of the problem wasn’t how bad business was in June, but how good it was in June 2014 when total sta...

Merton Domonoske was remembered as a former councilman and mayor who loved Fallon, and even after leaving office, he still had the best interests of the city at heart.The 92-year-old D...

The Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau Board voted to give Executive Director Joel Dunn a $17,000 a year raise on Monday.The vote was unanimous after the board reviewed a study of what comparable boards pay th...

Assemblyman Richard Carrillo, D-Las Vegas, was convicted of DUI Monday after a half-day trial.But Justice of the Peace John Tatro declined the prosecution request to order jail time for the three...

After Assemblywoman Michele Fiore twice refused to allow state inspectors into her home health care business records, officials Friday delivered a letter to her outlining her history of noncompliance and putting her on notice that her license to operate could be revoked....

Nevada’s unemployment rate for June was 6.9 percent, up a bit from the 6.6 percent recorded in May.The rate increased in not only Las Vegas but Reno-Sparks and Carson City by about three tenths in each jurisdiction.Bu...

The “Every Nevadan Tour” to further define Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and to hear what Nevadans think on a wide rage of topics made a stop in Fallon for a Wednesday breakfast meeting at...

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Transportation has reopened State Route 839 east of Fallon following roadway flooding and erosion.State Route 839, known as Scheelite Mine Road, travels sou...

A Las Vegas man’s conviction on child sexual assault charges has been tossed out because the judge failed to swear in the potential jurors in the case.Dustin James Barral was convicted of two counts of sexual assault ...

The Public Utilities Commission has unanimously named Stephanie Mullen as its new executive director.She is currently Stanford Sierra Camp and Conference Center manager at Fallen Leaf Lake, California, a position she ...

Being nosy, I wondered who were these dozens of people with Gov. Brian Sandoval on his two-weeks-plus trade mission to Ireland, England, Germany and Italy.
So I asked....

NV Energy will file with state regulators a week from Friday to show it plans to comply with new rooftop solar (so-called net metering) requirements renewable advocates agreed to in the Legislatuire but are now asserting are unfair....

Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, and Assemblyman P.K. O’Neill, R-Carson City, laid out a laundry list of reforms to attendees at the Northern Nevada Development Authority breakfast Wednesday.Kieckhefer said one he and O’N...

Hillary Clinton’s “Every Nevadan Tour” stopped in Fallon Wednesday morning to talk with residents about their concerns for the country.The Democrat former first lady, U.S. senator from New York and secretar...

Nevada's university regents have hired a prominent (and expensive) California labor lawyer and his associates to investigate allegations that Chancellor Dan Klaich improperly handled a report critical of the system....

Carson City’s legislators defended their votes including on tax increases Tuesday morning before a mostly friendly crowd of about 50 at the Silver Oak meeting center.Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, ...

Nevada’s unemployment rate for June was 6.9 percent, up a bit from the 6.6 percent recorded in May.The rate increased in not only Las Vegas but Reno-Sparks and Carson City by about three tenths in each jurisdiction.Bu...

The Hillary Clinton’s “Every Nevadan Tour” decided to take its own Silver State Scavenger Hunt to visit the northern rural counties for six days.It’s day three, and after traveling through eastern Nevada and stopping ...

In the wake of the shootings in Tennessee, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., has requested military commanders be authorized to let service members carry personal firearms on base.He said he made the request in light of sever...

Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who received $6 million in Medicaid funding during a five-year period, has refused to allow state inspectors to review her records and could have her license to operate revoked, sources confirmed this week....

With the Nevada 78th Legislative Session now history it was a session to remember at all levels. Senator Ben Kieckhefer and Assemblyman P.K. O’Neill met for coffee this morning at the Silver Oak Executive Conference Center to talk about legislation and the tax package signed into law by Gov. Brian Sandoval to fund Nevada’s education and what this can mean to Nevada’s future generations.

Dueling motions for summary judgment have been filed in Carson City District Court to end the lawsuit over whether Nevada is letting businesses violate the minimum wage law.Both motions were filed June 12 in the lawsu...

Damon Haycock has been confirmed as the new executive officer of the Public Employees Benefits Program.Gov. Brian Sandoval confirmed the recommendation by the PEBP board just one day after the board voted...