Nevada Politics

The Churchill County Democrats are hosting on Thursday their annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at the Churchill County Museum, 1050 S Maine St. The no-host social begins at 6 p.m. with the buffet-style dinner...

More than 100 Soldiers, friends, and family were at the Army Aviation Support Facility were witness history as Col. Joanne Farris rcently become the first female brigade commander in Nevada Gua...

A bill that would have required public school restrooms, locker rooms and showers to be used by students of one gender — and the one designated on their birth certificates — failed to win passage in the Assembly on Tuesday, a victory for opponents who said it would further ostracize transgender ...

RENO — Bi-state sage grouse escaped an endangered list designation, a boon for Nevadans and Californians, Gov. Brian Sandoval and Secretary of Interior...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the bi-state population of greater sage grouse found along the California-Nevada border does not require the protection of the Endangered Species Act, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced Tuesday....

The state Senate approved a resolution Tuesday urging Congress to transfer ownership of millions of acres of federal lands in Nevada to the state....

On a 17-4 vote, the Nevada Senate on Tuesday passed Gov. Brian Sandoval’s business license tax.The only four votes against the $438 million tax hike were cast by Republicans: James Settelmeyer, S...

Clark County officials are pursuing ways to more consistently regulate hookah lounges....

The Nevada Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill intended to capture more sales tax from out-of-state retailers....

Long-running problems with the program that oversees about 8,500 cases each year were laid bare in a series of Las Vegas Review-Journal articles published April 12 and 13....

Clark County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a three-year contract with the 27-member union for juvenile justice supervisors....

Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval’s tax proposal that would overhaul the state’s business license fees cleared one major legislative hurdle Tuesday, winning approval in the state Senate with a push from Democrats to await an unknown fate in the Assembly....

The Bundy Family is angry that lawmakers have changed a bill presented by Michele of the Thousand Tax Liens to, you know, make it legal. Barely
So what's happening now is lawmakers are being urged to vote NO on the measure that once was declared unconstitutional (um, federal supremacy) by every lawy...

I don't know why I asked for a statement from Gov. Brian Sandoval on the (temporary) entombment of the Uber bill, which today was revived when leaders of both houses exempted it from any deadlines, a highly unusual move for a dead piece of legislation.
But I asked for it:
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Panelists at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books take on the wealth gap, and argue for a government response that will help us all....

The federal Department of Homeland Security has moved back the deadline for Nevadans to have a Real ID drivers’ license to October 2020.Nevada DMV Director Troy Dillard said before this announcement, federal officials...

The Nevada Senate on Monday voted unanimously to approve a bill making major changes to the Public Employee Retirement System, including reducing the annual credit toward retirement from 2.5 percent of salary to 2.25 ...

A Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief invokes hisses (yes, old-school hisses ) after he embraces one of the worst decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court ever, Bush v. Gore....

As speculation runs rampant, we settle the issue once and for all!...

After believing a transgender bathroom bill was dead on the Assembly floor, GOP leaders are fretting the controversial measure is within a vote or two of passage before Tuesday's ...

From campus carry to parental notification for minors seeking abortions, the ultra-conservative element of the Nevada GOP Assembly caucus is taking advantage of its new-found power to set policy in the 2015 session....

A flare-up between two members of the Assembly Republican Caucus in a private meeting last week has been downplayed by GOP leadership but one of those involved, Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman of Las Vegas, is not happy with the response....

To most people it seemed curious but straightforward enough when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said he suffered a serious facial injury while exercising at his Henderson home on New Year’s Day....

The 2015 Legislature faces its second major deadline this week — bills must be voted out of the house where they originated before midnight Tuesday or they die.The exceptions, of course, are those granted a waiver by ...

Congress completed work last week on a bill that overhauls the way Medicare pays doctors, ending a long practice of short-term fixes that was threatening medical services to seniors....

A Nevada assemblywoman and Las Vegas bail bondsmen are fighting a Las Vegas Municipal Court they say is “money hungry” and bad for business....

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s prescription drug proposal, designed to help prevent highly addictive painkillers from being dispensed to people without a medical need, must pass out of the Senate by Tuesday to stay alive....

Assembly Judiciary Chairman Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, on Saturday fired back at Victoria Seaman, the Republican freshman who accused him of threatening her because she complained he refused to hold a...

Nevada has been awarded $2,220,253 in Veterans Affairs funding for veteran housing projects across Nevada.Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nv., said the funding is for housing choice vouchers for homeless veterans who receive care ...

There will be plenty of reasons for Nevada Latinos to turn out in record numbers for the 2016 election, say insiders who predict Hispanics will account for 20 percent of the state’s electorate, or one out of every five votes cast in the West’s most competitive battleground state....