Nevada Politics

A Republican-backed bill that would significantly change the Nevada Public Employees' Retirement System got a closer review Wednesday from a legislative money committee, as rooms nearly full of opponents looked on. The Assembly Ways and Means Committee combed ......

The Nevada Senate on Wednesday approved proposed on a party-line vote legislation that would set out insurance requirements for transportation network companies such as Uber....

Nevada senators have passed a bill aimed at breathing new life into a film tax credits program that was gutted while the state worked to attract Tesla. The Senate ......

A divided Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday approved plans for a tourism improvement district to pay for a controversial parking garage, which was once meant to support an even more controversial $200 million, 24,000-seat soccer stadium downtown....

Police in Pennsylvania said on Tuesday that the tombstone of Hillary Clinton’s father had been knocked over in a possible case of vandalism, the Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper reported, days after she announced her presidential bid....

Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony lost his campaign for mayor against incumbent Carolyn Goodman last week, and today he lost his post as her second-in-command on the council.
After briefly thanking Anthony for ......

With Republicans now in charge on both sides of Capitol Hill, lawmakers who want a new life for the Yucca Mountain project launched their latest bid on Wednesday to fund the Nevada nuclear waste site....

U.S. lawmakers asked Hillary Clinton in 2012 if she used a personal email account for government business while secretary of state, but never received an answer, according to letters released on Wednesday....

The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday approved a complicated land swap deal that will see the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District build a $14 million library near Eastern Avenue and Charleston Boulevard while the Natural History Museum takes over the old Las Vegas Library near Cashman Fiel...

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid calls the field of Republican presidential candidates “losers,” but it’s not the first time he’s used that word....

A state lawmaker pushing for major changes to the state public employee retirement plan told a committee on Wednesday that long-term workers would actually do better under his proposal than with the current defined benefit pension plan....

Sen. Harry Reid has never been shy about saying what he thinks. But since announcing he is ending his 30 year-Senate career in 2017, Reid has had even less of a filter. The most recent example ......

A legislative money committee on Wednesday signed off on major Department of Motor Vehicles budgets, including funding for 75 new positions to staff all windows in the urban Las Vegas offices to reduce long wait times....

For Hillary Clinton to reach the White House, a key path will go through Nevada. Winning over voters in this diverse state will bode well for her chances in the general election. Here's her game plan to win ......

Gov. Brian Sandoval will meet with solar industry officials to discuss a controversial cap that limits how many consumers can put solar panels on their homes and ......

May be down to five members in 2019If the plain language of current statute is followed, the Nevada Supreme Court is going to shrink from seven members to five in the November 2018 election.That’s because NRS2.010 say...

The biennial Donkey/Elephant basketball game — that’s Democrats vs. Republicans — is set for April 23 at Carson High School.The game is traditionally played during the middle of the Legislative session with all procee...

Back in the heady days of the mid- to late-1990s, Nevada’s voters were in a particularly anti-democratic mood....

A total of 246 bills were listed as dead last weekbecause they failed to get out of committee.Friday was the deadline for bills to pass out of committee in the house where they originated.That is fully a quarter — 24....

A bill that would have increased court oversight of guardianships for certain people with dementia died in a Nevada legislative committee last week...

The United States decided to drop Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Tuesday partly because of Cuban assurances that it would not support terrorism in the future, senior U.S. officials said....

Stung by a recent vote in Congress, national conservation groups are mustering opposition to an increasing call from many western states to transfer federal lands to state control ......

Nevada lawmakers hope to prevent sage grouse from landing on the Endangered Species List by taking aim at ravens, which are notorious egg-snatchers ......

A bill that would impose a cooling-off period for state lawmakers in Nevada who want to become paid contract lobbyists at the Legislature won unanimous approval in the Assembly on Tuesday and now heads to the Senate....

The state Board of Examiners approved a $222,408 contract extension between Xerox State and Local Solutions and the Department of Motor Vehicles, highlighting another link between Nevada and the company that built flawed software for ......

Can Republicans go left? Can Democrats go right to the hoop? Those are two questions to be answered when Nevada elected officials of both parties meet for the Biennial Donkey and Elephant Basketball Classic benefiting the Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion Programs of Seniors in Service.

The game pits elected Republican officeholders against their Democrat counterparts. Tip-off is Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Carson City High School, 1111 S. Saliman Road.

With news of an anti-gay marriage group's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstitute Nevada's ban, I wondered if Attorney General Adam Laxalt would join the effort.
Laxalt, a known ...

The Nevada Athletic Commission is asking state lawmakers to increase taxes on tickets to boxing and mixed martial arts events. Nevada Department of Business and Industry head Bruce Breslow presented ......

Nevada lawmakers voiced strident opposition Tuesday to a bill that would end a longevity pay program that rewards state employees once they've put in eight years of continuous service. Department of Administration chief Jim Wells presented ......

While speaking at a recent National Rifle Association event, rocker and NRA board member Ted Nugent said facetiously that if he had to accept Sen. Harry Reid’s help, he would shoot him afterward.
Nugent made the comment during ......