Nevada Politics

The State Department released Friday its first round of emails from Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State, offering a new look at her handling of the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi....

Sen. Dena Heller, R-Nv., has joined in legislation designed to improve access to “safe and effective contraceptives.”The legislation would also encourage manufacturers of routine-use contraceptives to file an applicat...

A last ditch attempt to force Nevada college campuses to let people to carry guns to class was rejected by the Assembly on Thursday.Assemblyman Ira Hansen, R-sparks, tried to attach the “campus carry” language to SB17...

Members of the legislative money committees got their first review of the governor’s latest tax plan on Thursday, a combination of elements in his original plan plus those in two other proposals ...

A compromise tax plan Gov. Brian Sandoval is counting on to raise $262 million a year and help fund his $7.4 billion budget received its first vetting Thursday before a joint meeting of Nevada legislative money committees....

Gaming industry chief lobbyist Geoff Freeman warned Thursday against restricting the use of federal government credit cards in casinos, calling the idea an overreaction to an audit that found thousands of questionable transactions....

A bill requiring parents to be notified if their minor daughter seeks an abortion was revived by a Nevada Senate committee Thursday....

The Assembly on Thursday killed an amendment to gun control legislation that would have allowed a “campus carry” provision....

Three North Las Vegas human resources employees are out of work after the City Council voted to outsource their jobs, the Las Vegas Review-Journal learned Thursday....

A resolution that would ask voters in 2016 to amend the Nevada constitution to allow annual sessions of the state Legislature won a critical vote in a Senate committee Thursday....

Supporters say funding for the International Center for Excellence in Gaming Regulation would help move the project along as it continues to seek private donations....

In for Nevada Senate against anointed choice Catherine Cortez Masto? Kamikaze mission, an up-or-out move or a feint? You judge -- this just went out:...

Members of the legislative money committees voted on Wednesday to revive the foreclosure mediation program for the coming two years.The program was created at the height of the recession when Nevada had the nation’s h...

Nevada businesses added more jobs in April than in any month over the past 10 years.Economist Bill Anderson of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation said the state saw an increase of 12,800 jobs ov...

The move to privatize North Las Vegas’ human resources department by hiring Prism Global Management Group comes amid allegations by two longtime HR employees that Mayor John Lee is abusing his authority....

“Pawn Stars” star Rick Harrison was granted a waiver from Las Vegas’ neon sign ordinance for his new container park, Pawn Plaza, on the boulevard Wednesday....

Legislative money committees voted on Wednesday to spend $858,539 to build a new execution chamber at the Ely State Prison.The old chamber, which was built decades ago as a gas chamber, is at Nevada State Prison in Ca...

Legislative money committees voted on Wednesday to spend $858,539 to build a new execution chamber at the Ely State Prison.The old chamber, which was built decades ago as a gas chamber, is at Nevada State Prison in Ca...

A Senate committee Wednesday reviewed a bill to simplify Nevada’s convoluted live entertainment tax with an admission tax that would be easier to calculate and administer....

U.S. troops and Defense Department employees improperly used their government charge cards to spend more than $1 million in casinos and strip clubs in one year, and the government is still struggling to stop it, according to a new report released Monday by the top Pentagon watchdog....

Las Vegas will soon have the money to build a much-ballyhooed downtown parking garage, and an extra $20 million to boot....

The $38,500 “market rate adjustment” awarded to Las Vegas City Manager Betsy Fretwell on Wednesday sure looks like a pay hike, though City Council members who approved the move prefer to think of it as a way to bring the longtime top administrator’s pay in line with that of her peers in other ju...

The bill requires a lawmaker who leaves office to skip one legislative session before returning to the Legislature as a paid lobbyist....

“We have to stop bullying. We have to,” Sandoval told students at Carson City Middle School in an emotional speech moments before he signed Senate Bill 504 into law....

At a ceremony Wednesday at Carson Middle School in Carson City, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed anti-bullying legislation into law, Senate Bill 504. Sandoval was joined by members of the Legislature, State school Superintendent Dale Erquiaga and 8th grade students.

Members of the Legislature’s two money committees on Wednesday narrowly approved $858,000 to build a new execution chamber at Nevada’s maximum security prison at Ely as requested by the Department of Corrections....

Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt scored a real attention-grabber in January, signing the state onto a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration. On Tuesday morning outside the Sawyer Building, our activist attorney general received more attention....

With less than two weeks left in the regular 2015 Nevada Legislative session, the compromise tax plan designed to balance the state budget could become public today, despite not getting a hearing until Thursday.Gov. B...

Supporters of a Republican-backed bill to scrap Nevada’s presidential caucuses for a secret-ballot primary in February argued Tuesday that the move would expand participation in choosing the nation’s president....

The wedding date of Bristol Palin, a reality television personality and the daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has been called off, Sarah Palin said in a post on Facebook....