Nevada Politics

Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, R-Carson City, and a handful of other western states senators are trying a new tactic to block the listing of the Sage Grouse as endangered.“All three branches of our nation’s armed services h...

Vincent Bugliosi, the man who put Charles Manson behind bars and went on to a second career as a true-crime author, died Saturday after battling cancer....

Gov. Brian Sandoval issued a statement Tuesday morning on his decision not to run for U.S. Senate, a seat currently held by Sen. Harry Reid. Earlier this spring, Reid announced he was not seeking re-electio...

Gov. Brian Sandoval issued a statement Tuesday morning on his decision not to run for U.S. Senate, a seat currently held by Sen. Harry Reid. Earlier this spring, Reid announced he was not seeking re-electio...

Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Tuesday he will not run for Harry Reid’s U.S. Senate seat....

LAS VEGAS — The Federal Aviation Administration is planning a meeting in Nevada by the end of the year about expanding drone aircraft testing. FAA chief Michael Huerta made the promise Monday during a speech to an avi...

Clark County management has ordered Martin Bassick, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 1107, to report for work at a county job in a move that reflects the county’s interpretation of a new state law....

Attorney General Adam Laxalt will host a presidential candidates event in Northern Nevada this summer, with half a dozen White House hopefuls already confirmed....

In the Nevada Legislature, patience and resolve are keys to getting your bills heard — and sometimes even passed....

A group called the WeDecideCoalition.com has been formed to put Gov. Brian Sandoval’s revenue plan on the 2016 ballot as a voter referendum....

Nevada continues to lag in moving mentally ill offenders ordered by the court into its only maximum-security psychiatric facility, resulting in backlogs at jails in Washoe and Clark counties....

Joking that he wanted to buy a pair of lederhosen leather shorts, U.S. President Barack Obama drank beer and mixed with Bavarians in a light-hearted start to his trip to Germany, before turning to more serious talks on the conflict in Ukraine....

From higher cigarette taxes, entertainment levies and the state’s first gross receipts tax on commerce, Nevada businesses and residents will pay more under tax measures approved by the 2015 Legislature to fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $7.3 billion general fund budget....

It was a brave new world when Republicans swept all constitutional offices and both houses of the Legislature in November for the first time in more than a century. Nobody knew what an era of conservative control woul...

With today being D-Day, the LVN is republishing an article from 2014 that chronicled a Fallon man’s involvement with the greatest seaborne...

President Barack Obama headed to Delaware on Saturday in a show of compassion for grief-stricken Joe Biden, and to eulogize the vice president’s son Beau, who died last week of brain cancer at only 46....

Gov. Brian Sandoval has named the head of Teach for America-Las Vegas to the state Board of Education.Victor Wakefield will assume that post immediately.He’s executive director of Teach for America-Las Vegas and Sando...

Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed legislation requiring anyone who signs a petition to recall a public official must have voted in the election that put the official in that post.Supporters of the legislation say that ma...

In agreeing to stand with the majority — and telegraphing it with a long, almost pleading missive to the press — Pahrump Assemblyman James Oscarson has distinguished himself among his conservative peers....

Twenty-seven of 42 measures creating new crimes or enhancing existing penalties were approved by the Nevada Legislature, creating the potential for higher incarceration rates and a growing need for expensive new prison beds, an analysis from the Clark County public defender’s office suggests....

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled Nevada’s 40-year-old wiretap law permits the interception of text messages and cell phone calls even though those things didn’t exist when it passed.The wiretap law was ...

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled Nevada’s 40-year-old wiretap law permits the interception of text messages and cell phone calls even though those things didn’t exist when it passed.The wiretap law was ...

Bills putting the state Public Utilities Commission in charge of figuring out rates for roof-top solar users and raising credit requirements for Millennium Scholarship recipients were signed into law Friday by Gov. Brian Sandoval....

The 2015 session of the Nevada Legislature has ended, and it produced enough drama and comedy to keep us political junkies fully entertained for 120 glorious days.

But the comedy continues as the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party are busy casting aspersions against the very popular Gov. Brian Sandoval and the majority of the Republicans in the Legislature who approved a $1.1 billion tax increase. The favorite friendly-fire insult of the far right is to call them RINOs, short for Republican In Name Only.

The state’s Employee-Management Relations Board said Friday it has posted on its website more than 200 collective bargaining agreements between local government agencies and employee unions in Nevada....

The Nevada Assembly’s new and surprising majority ended the 2015 session the way it started: In chaos....

The end times didn’t fall upon organized labor this legislative session, despite initial fears from union leaders that the GOP-led red wave endangered their way of doing business....

After years of work and hopes, Stewart Indian School is poised to make a major leap forward in efforts to protect, restore and develop the complex into...

The 3½-mile trail that links Hoover Dam with the Lake Mead National Recreation Area was designated as a trail of national significance Thursday....

I've confirmed that ex-Gov. Jeb Bush will be in Henderson on June 27, 12 days after he makes his announcement (suspense that kills) on whether he is running for president.
Bush, I'm told, will be in Nevada after stops in the other three early states: Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
And his s...