Nevada convicts waiting for a parole hearing may have another tool for getting before the board.
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Women, who comprise a record setting 40 percent of the statehouse, took time Monday to call attention to their issues as part of Women’s Week at the Nevada Legislature.
Funding issues took center stage during a hearing on a bill that would require police throughout Nevada to use body-worn camera systems.
Nevada inmates shipped out of state will likely have a way to visit with a video connection with their families.
Ticket scalpers would come under new scrutiny and face possible misdemeanor charges for violations under a bill introduced Monday in the Nevada Senate.
Law enforcement could seize a private drone found crashed, grounded, disabled or abandoned and impound it under procedures similar to those for abandoned vehicles.
Nevada’s Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Ruben Kihuen had expressed concern that the move would force local military veterans to “travel hundreds of miles” to get health care.
It’s Day 29, and the start of the fifth week of the 2017 Legislative Session. It’s a packed day. Here’s what to watch for.
Donald Trump wasn’t the first candidate with carefully coiffured hair to campaign in Nevada pushing a hard line on illegal immigration.
Economic development is the primary driver for the introduction of Senate Joint Resolution 7, but some proponents see it as the first step in a state takeover of much of the public land in Nevada.
Demonstrators showed their support for President Donald Trump with a rally Saturday outside the Las Vegas hotel that bears his name.
It is going to be déjà vu all over again when the Legislature begins Week 5 on Monday, with new hearings scheduled on a DMV-based voter registration petition and another on the Equal Rights Amendment.
Mayor John Lee will travel Monday to Carson City to testify in support of Senate Bill 78, which would create an alternative mode for North Las Vegas and other cash-strapped cities to stop tapping into restricted funds as a way to pay for daily operations.
Democrats from across the state elected Assemblyman William McCurdy II as the Nevada State Democratic Party’s chair on Saturday. McCurdy, a state assemblyman, also made history as the first African-American elected to the post, and also the youngest person elected in modern party history.
The fish pedicure industry may be gaining more clout in Nevada. Or it could simply be that the state is ready to let residents dip their toes into a bowl of hungry doctor fish.
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