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Nevada Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson warned lawmakers to prepare for more late nights this week as the Senate continues its dive into the details of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s business license fee proposal....

In 2009, Carson City poet Teresa Breeden wrote: “Listen. These soldiers were all children once…they stood in that first pair of shoes, released supports, leaned into the wind of unknowing, wobbled that first step toward war.” Literary work by Breeden and other Nevada writers accompany photographs of the nearly 7,000 U.S military Iraq and Afghanistan war dead since Sept.11, 2001, all part of the nationally touring arts and humanities exhibition “Always Lost: A Meditation on War.”

Cruz, 44, has built a reputation as an unyielding advocate for conservative principles in his two years in the Senate. As a presidential candidate, he is likely to portray himself as the most reliable proponent of small government....

Republicans blindsided Democrats on a Nevada Senate committee Friday when they amended an overtime bill to raise Nevada’s minimum wage to $9 an hour, which would be a 75-cent increase for workers who do not receive employer-paid insurance.....

Republicans have added a surprise minimum wage hike to a bill that would repeal a law limiting the regular workday to eight hours. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Labor and Energy approved an amended version of ......

The Nevada Senate held a three-hour hearing Thursday to comb through details and raise technical concerns about Gov. Brian Sandoval’s business license tax plan, which could be ready for a vote ...

Sandoval, supporters, opposition sound off in lengthy hearing on planA joint meeting of the Senate Revenue and Economic Development Committee and the Assembly Taxation Commi...

Without dissent, the state Senate today approved a bill that would allow county assessors to post annual property tax rolls on the Internet instead of ......

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid thanked likely Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky for dispensing "expert advice" on Reid's injured right eye. "I really appreciate it very, very much," the Nevada Democrat said to Paul, a Republican senator and ......

The Senate Government Affairs Committee was urged on Friday to let the citizens of Ely decide whether they want to be a city or not. Ely has been a city for 100 years but White Pine County Commissioner Richard Howe sa...

The Senate Government Affairs Committee was urged on Friday to let the citizens of Ely decide whether they want to be a city or not. Ely has been a city for 100 years but White Pine County Commissioner Richard Howe sa...

A bipartisan group of Nevada senators have introduced a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide. SB 336 was introduced in the Nevada Senate on Monday evening and would allow terminally ill patients to take medication ending their lives. Republican senators ......

On Monday, Sens. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Carson City, Washoe, and David Parks, D-Las Vegas, introduced Senate Bill 336, the Nevada Patient Self-Determination Act. The bill outlines the process and strict safeguards required for terminally ill individuals to request and receive a prescription medication from their physician to hasten death.

Senate Finance Chairman Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, told his committee on Monday that lawmakers are a full week ahead of schedule in reviewing the governor’s proposed budget.“We’re about to begin clo...

Mendy Elliott, whose father was among the first to get a heart transplant in the mid-’60s, testified last week in favor of Senate Bill 206, a measure supporters hope will nurture more organ donors....

The Senate Government Affairs Committee was urged on Friday to let the citizens of Ely decide whether they want to be a city or not.Ely has been a city for 100 years but White Pine County Commissioner Richard Howe sai...

A bill that would expand legal protections for justifiable homicides involving occupied vehicles, as well as making it illegal for anyone convicted of domestic violence, even a misdemeanor offense, to own a gun, won unanimous approval from a Nevada Senate committee on Friday....

President Barack Obama read "Mean Tweets" on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Thursday night, but he was unfazed. After enduring the routine — in which celebrities read hostile Twitter comments about themselves — Obama told Kimmel, "You should see what the Senate says about me."
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Gov. Brian Sandoval’s much anticipated tax plan was introduced in the Nevada Senate late Wednesday.Senate Bill 252, a bill more than 200 pages long, was referred to the Revenue and Economic Development Comm...

Nevada counties would no longer have to publish annual tax rolls in local newspapers but instead could post the information on the Internet under a measure passed Thursday by a Senate committee....

Employers would have to provide paid sick leave for workers under a bill introduced Thursday in the Nevada Senate....

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s much anticipated tax plan was introduced in the Nevada Senate late Wednesday.Senate Bill 252, a bill more than 200 pages long, was referred to the Revenue and Economic Development Committee for a...

Gardnerville artist Sonia Carlson hosts a free Chinese Calligraphy workshop at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19 as part of the Nevada Arts Council’s “Work of Artists” series at the Nevada Legislative Building in Carson City.

The event runs until 5 p.m. in Room 3100. All “Work of Artists” presentations are free and open to the public.
Growing up in Zhangzhou, China, Carlson learned calligraphy in school and folk dances from her family.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid says Republicans must remove an abortion provision from a human trafficking bill or the legislation won't pass ......

County assessors would no longer be required to publish annual property tax rolls in the local newspaper under a Nevada legislative proposal that would save taxpayers statewide hundreds of thousands of dollars at the expense of newspapers....

A bill designed to give lift to Nevada’s aviation industry cleared its first legislative pylon Tuesday with passage by a Senate committee....

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s refusal to allow the Senate to vote on a nuclear deal with Iran left him “no choice” but to sign the provocative message that Republicans delivered to the Middle East power this week....

A bill detailing Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposal to overhaul Nevada’s business license fees to fund his education priorities is expected to be introduced in the Nevada Senate on Wednesday....

Republicans are sponsoring a bill that would make background checks for gun sales free and prevent more people with mental illness from having a firearm. SB240 was introduced in the Nevada Senate on Tuesday. It would expand ......

As a New Jersey Democratic senator comes under fire in a corruption investigation, Republicans are taking aim at another Democrat: Sen. Harry Reid. The Senate minority leader has not ......