Nevada Politics

A budget amendment allowing the state to directly run its only juvenile maximum-security facility raised concerns among lawmakers who said Nevada can’t afford another failure at the now-closed Clark County site....

Senior Republicans and business leaders in Las Vegas are helping Rep. Cresent Hardy build a firewall as he prepares to defend his newly won seat in Congress....

The AFL-CIO is going after state Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson with a new ad starting Friday statewide, complete with "Ralston Live" clip and scary beard picture (him not me.)

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A Nevada bill that would allow more businesses to place bets at race and sports books is moving forward. The Senate passed SB443 on Thursday in an 11-10 vote, with Democrats opposed. It now heads to ......

A Right to Try bill that would make it easier for terminally ill Nevadans to obtain experimental medications that could help prolong their lives won approval with unanimous support Thursday in the Assembly....

Lawmakers in the Nevada Assembly unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that would allow terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs as a last-resort treatment. Nevada would become ......

The U.S. House voted Thursday to make permanent the IRS deduction for state and local sales taxes, a benefit targeted to residents of Nevada and a handful of other states that lack an income tax....

Gayle H. Robertson, a certified public accountant, was selected as Carson City’s next treasurer Thursday morning by the Carson City Board of Supervisors.Robertson was selected by a 3-1 vote, with Supervisor Brad Bonko...

Completion of the veterans medical complex in North Las Vegas that already was years late and millions of dollars over budget has been pushed back another six months or more, according to a new schedule from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs...

A bill moving through the Nevada Legislature would allow juries in lawsuits about taxicab crashes to consider whether a passenger was wearing a seatbelt. The Senate Transportation Committee held ......

And more to come from the Clark County Education Association:

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North Las Vegas plans to have a balanced budget for the next fiscal year, but it isn’t out of the woods yet, the city’s finance director said Wednesday to City Council members....

Assemblyman Randy Kirner, R-Reno, told the Nevada Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday putting new public workers into a hybrid 401k style plan, instead of the current PERS system, would benefit employees ...

A bill to tighten Nevada’s employment discrimination law and provide remedies to promote equal pay for equal work triggered a partisan rift in the Nevada Senate despite unanimous passage....

Nevada’s burgeoning solar industry on Wednesday accused NV Energy of trying to maintain its power monopoly by stifling a program that lets customers with rooftop solar arrays get credit for producing extra electricity....

None of the heavily redacted documents obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request sheds light on what led to last year’s armed standoff between supporters of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management....

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....

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 ......