Nevada Politics

The bill that will pay for the governor’s education and general fund budget made it through the Nevada Assembly on Sunday despite passionate opposition from conservative Republicans and did so wi...

Assemblyman Randy Kirner, R-Reno, said Sunday his bill to convert the Public Employees Retirement System into a hybrid system offering new hires a modified 401K is dead this legislative session.He said the bill will i...

The legal authority for U.S. spy agencies’ collection of Americans’ phone records and other data expired at midnight on Sunday after the U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers....

The upscale Las Vegas community of Lamplight Estates is trying to fight off plans to build a 261-unit apartment complex next door....

The Nevada Assembly voted 30-10 Sunday evening to approve Gov. Brian Sandoval's $1.1 billion tax plan. Carson City Assemblyman P.K. O'Neill voted in favor of the bill, which now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass. You can see more coverage on Twitter and on the Nevada Politics page.

With a critical Assembly vote Sunday approving Gov. Brian Sandoval’s controversial new gross receipts tax, all of the moving pieces were falling into place to ensure that the 2015 legislative session will adjourn by midnight Monday....

Rep. Cresent Hardy, R-Nev., on May 13 reintroduced a bill that would name one of the peaks of Frenchman Mountain to the east of Las Vegas for President Ronald Reagan. The peak would become known as Mount Reagan....

With the 2015 session of the Nevada Legislature set to end at midnight Monday, lawmakers are working into the night on many bills still pending, including Gov. Brian Sandoval's tax plan. You can track all the action on our Nevada Politics page.

Nevada lawmakers have revived a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage and ease restrictions that would have made it harder for workers to qualify for overtime pay. Assembly members and senators agreed Sunday to r...

Nevada lawmakers have revived a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage and ease restrictions that would have made it harder for workers to qualify for overtime pay. Assembly members and senators agreed Sunday to...

Nevada lawmakers have approved a measure requiring all Nevada Highway Patrol troopers to wear portable body cameras by 2016. Assembly members voted to approve SB111 on Monday, and the measure now goes to Gov. Brian ...

The long-sought clean-up of the convoluted Live Entertainment Tax won approval in the Assembly late Monday.Senate Bill 266 by Sen. Mark Lipparelli, R-Las Vegas, clarifies that all indoor and outdoor music and performa...

Without a public hearing or discussion of its cost, lawmakers have added language to the Appropriations Act repealing the statute mandating Nevada’s Supreme Court shrink from seven to five members.The language in NRS2...

The Appropriations Act, which spells out how state General Fund money will be spent over the coming two years, includes a total of $4.95 million in cash added to help Western Nevada and Great Basin colleges make the t...

A joint legislative conference committee approved a change to Nevada’s overtime and minimum wage law Sunday....

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $1.1 billion package of new and extended taxes was headed for a vote on the Assembly floor Sunday afternoon, with all indications signaling passage by the lower house and adjournment of the Legislature by the midnight deadline Monday....

Richard Dooling, the husband of Nevada Assemblywoman Victoria Dooling, died Sunday in the Las Vegas area....

Ask Nevada officials why prisoners who have been granted parole are still behind bars, and they’ll say prisoners are refusing to leave. But their numbers don’t match, and prisoners themselves have a different answer....

Clark County’s child welfare system has begun implementing reforms identified by a special blue ribbon panel of experts, expected to produce better outcomes for those in its care....

Henderson’s next conquest could be 4 square miles of mostly empty desert south of town, some of it lying along the future path of Interstate 11....

The Nevada Assembly met as a committee of the whole on Saturday to review the latest amendments to the bill designed to balance Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget.But after about three hours of tes...

Joseph “Beau” Biden III, an Iraq war veteran who served as the attorney general of Delaware and was a son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died at the age 46, the White House said in a statement Saturday night....

Kim Caipa praised young people Saturday for the passage of Brady’s Bill — named after her dead son — that could save the lives of high school and college students in Nevada....

Much of Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval’s sweeping education agenda overcame key legislative hurdles on Saturday, as lawmakers passed bills aimed at poor-performing schools, boosting academic performance, and giving incentives to educators....

Faced with wildly divergent estimates of the cost of moving Nevada’s current public employee pension system to a defined contribution plan for new workers, a state lawmaker said Saturday he is abandoning the effort this session....

Administration officials Saturday presented to the full Nevada Assembly an amendment to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s compromise tax plan that seeks to assuage concerns of some Republicans and win enough votes to assure passage....

According to the draft budget bills handed to leaders of the money committees late Friday, the state’s proposed budget includes pay raises for state workers in both years of the biennium.The “pay bill,” which has no...

The former Maryland governor unveiled his campaign in Baltimore, the city where he was once mayor — a role that is central to his political persona. But his Baltimore credentials could become more of a challenge than he initially thought after a riot erupted in the city in April....

8:30 AM, Saturday:  Right after the post below went up, Assemblyman Erv Nelson went public with his support. (He clearly agonized over it.) Another domi...

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 an historic site, mus...