Terminally ill patients could voluntarily end their lives with doctor-prescribed medication under a bill introduced Monday in the Nevada Senate.
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Mental health professionals would be prohibited from conducting sexual preference or gender identity conversion therapy on youth under a bill heard in a Nevada Senate committee Monday.
The Nevada Senate on Monday approved an initiative to automatically register people to vote when they apply for or renew a driver’s license or identification card at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Changing a poopy diaper in public would be much easier for parents under a bill considered Monday by an Assembly committee.
The intent of Assembly Bill 180 is not to add rights, but to put in code the rights that juveniles typically have at detention facilities. Those include access to medical care, adequate food, an attorney and not being deprived of food, a daily shower or exercise as a form of punishment.
Nevada will continue to fight any attempt to restart the Yucca Mountain project as the site to bury the nation’s high-level radio active waste, and supporters should walk away from the moribund effort, a state official told state lawmakers on Monday.
Nevada should tighten its law to prohibit sale of animal parts from sensitive species to protect the world’s wildlife and prevent the state from becoming a hub for illegal trafficking, a Senate committee was told Monday.
Thursday’s legislative hearing on property tax increases showed exactly why you can’t trust politicians.
It’s Day 36 and the start of Week 6 of the 2017 Legislative Session. Here’s what to watch for.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., is engaged in a wide-range of issues before the Senate, which will vote on confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice, repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, tackle immigration measures, as well as deal with Nevada-specific problems and proposals.
Poland has become a focus of Nevada’s global economic development efforts, and the attraction is mutual, said John Petkus, Las Vegas’ honorary consul for the Republic of Poland.
Nevada lawmakers will spend much of their time on family issues in Week 6 of the 2017 session, with bills dealing with baby-changing accommodations, domestic violence protections and payday lending reforms all set for hearings.
Demonstrators line Hampton Road during a protest against U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who appeared at the Sun City Anthem Center in Henderson on Saturday.
Film production companies would have to obtain a state business license under a bill passed Friday by an Assembly committee.
Students at Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas on Friday took home a lesson on war, sacrifice and freedom they are unlikely to soon forget.
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