Nevada Politics

The Obama administration on Monday moved to prohibit federal agencies from providing local cops with certain kinds of military equipment such as grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and bayonets, in the wake of controversy over a “militarized” police response to unrest last summer in Ferguson...

Assembly Minority Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, told the Ways and Means Committee Tuesday local governments are cheating the state out of sales tax by buying materials for construction pr...

Beau Biden, a son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, has been hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington, the vice president’s office said on Tuesday....

The party for the Florida senator will be at the home of “Pawn Stars” TV show star Rick Harrison on May 28....

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. State Department to produce a plan to release batches of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time there, raising the prospect of months of drip-by-drip disclosures that could plague her presidential campaign....

A Right to Try bill that would make it easier for terminally ill Nevadans to obtain experimental medications that could help prolong their lives is on its way to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s desk after winning unanimous approval in the Senate on Tuesday....

The Nevada Senate gave final legislative action Tuesday to a bill designed to set limits on drones and protect privacy rights....

Bill Clinton tweeted to welcome President Barack Obama to Twitter. “One question: Does that username stay with the office? #askingforafriend”...

Energy and water subcommittee chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., on Tuesday unveiled a 2016 spending bill for the Department of Energy that contains $70 million for various nuclear waste programs....

Las Vegas’ budget forecast is clearing up, but it’s not all sunshine and roses for residents of Nevada’s largest city....

Hosted by Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison and his Nevada campaign chief, Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchsion, Marco Rubio is coming to celebrate his birthday in Nevada.

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Clark County commissioners on Tuesday approved a one-year collective bargaining agreement for firefighters that gives them a 2 percent cost-of-living increase....

A total of 39 bills died Friday at midnight because they couldn’t get out of committee in the 2015 Legislature — including a number of gun-rights measures proposed by members of the Assembly.Friday was the deadline fo...

Hillary Clinton's top campaign aides, including her campaign manager, are in Nevada this week to meet with supporters,  community leaders and reporters, yet another sign that the Silver State is critical to the presumptive Democratic nominee's strategy.
Robby Mook, who ran Clinton's 2008 effort in N...

A controversial plan to outsource the city of North Las Vegas’ human resources functions will go to the City Council Wednesday, but some city workers say the move is a foregone conclusion — right down to the company to get the contract....

The Retail Association of Nevada on Monday released a poll saying more than half of Nevadans think the state is moving in the right direction with 61 percent backing Gov. Brian Sandoval’s job performance.They also agr...

Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. Dean Heller are millionaires, and details of how they stay that way are contained in personal finance reports that lawmakers are required to file each May 15 with Congress....

The House on Monday approved a bill that would make it easier for low-income disabled veterans to qualify for government housing assistance....

So, it’s official. After years of signing “-BO” at the end of BarackObama to signal the tweets he crafted himself from an account operated by the Organizing for Action staff, the President now has his very own handle POTUS, tweeting for the first time: “Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six y...

I have seen many, many tendentious polls in my life. But the one released Monday by the Retail Association of Nevada is one of the worst....

Clark County commissioners approved $1.242 billion in yearly spending Monday that will help add dozens of police officers while devoting more money to jails and adding jobs in the Department of Family Services....

The Nevada Senate on Sunday passed legislation designed to boost efforts to convert the oldest parts of the historic Nevada State Prison into a museum, tourist attraction, scientific and historic...

The elderly, the blind and the physically disabled. Thousands of people in these groups in Clark and Washoe counties face major changes in the way assistive services are provided to them should Assembly Bill 310 — sponsored by Nevada Assembly Majority Leader Paul Anderson, R-Las Vegas — become l...

The Nevada Senate gave final legislative approval Sunday to a bill extending the statute of limitations for sexual assault cases from four to 20 years....

The Nevada Senate on Sunday unanimously approved a bill that puts state regulators in charge of deciding how to credit rooftop solar homeowners for electricity generation without shifting costs to other utility customers....

A total of 39 bills died Friday at midnight because they couldn’t get out of committee in the 2015 Legislature — including a number of gun-rights measures proposed by members of the Assembly.Friday was the deadline fo...

A couple of Republican presidential hopefuls have ventured into Nevada-dicey territory by talking about Yucca Mountain and giving U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, the state’s top Democrat, an opening to take some shots....

It's the Spike Lee approach, but is anybody listening to anything outside the building anymore?

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The legislative money committees on Saturday approved the vast majority of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed education budget including $2.83 billion in spending from the Distributive School Account, the budget that prov...

The Senate on Saturday gave final passage to the bill creating a special account for the protection of Stewart Indian School at the southern border of Carson City.Sen. Pete Goicoechea said the account would collect ca...