The Nevada Supreme Court handed low-wage earners a mixed bag of wins and losses in three opinions issued Thursday interpreting the state’s minimum wage law enshrined in the constitution.
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Nevada will share in a multi-state, $41.2 million settlement with automakers Hyundai and Kia over claims they exaggerated, then adjusted, fuel efficiency ratings, the attorney general’s office announced Thursday.
They missed family birthdays and holidays, including the Fourth of July, while they ran supplies for freedom fighters 7,800 miles from Nevada. Now they’re coming home.
Incumbent Republican Derek Armstrong is facing off with attorney Ozzie Fumo in Democratic-leaning Assembly District 21.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of an appeals court ruling issued earlier this year in favor of the federal government in a long-running dispute with the late Nevada rancher Wayne Hage.
Independent American Party candidate Janine Hansen will try to leverage her experience as a lobbyist for school choice in a long-shot bid to unseat incumbent Republican state Sen. Pete Goicoechea in the expansive Senate District 19.
Two longtime educators — Republican Carrie Buck and Democratic incumbent Joyce Woodhouse — are squaring off for the right to help steer state education policy from Carson City.
Republican incumbent Melissa Woodbury is attempting to fend off a challenge from Democrat Craig Jordahl, a retired federal contract specialist and retired Air Force master sergeant.
Republican incumbent James Oscarson is facing Dennis Hof, a Libertarian who is Nevada’s best-known legal brothel owner, in this rural district.
The two candidates vying for District 3 on the Nevada State Board of Education have taken different approaches to a state-mandated plan to break up the Clark County School District.
When Nevada inherited the closed Beatty nuclear waste dump in 1997, it accepted $9 million from the firm that operated it. After a frightening fiery accident last year, the cost of a retrofit is likely to be far in excess of that.
Former state lawmaker Tom Hickey, who served 22 years as a Democrat and labor supporter in the Assembly and Senate from North Las Vegas, died Wednesday of a heart-related condition. He was 86.
Review of human resources unit’s computer network called an ‘eye-opener’ after stores of unencrypted data, open accounts of former employees are found.
Gov. Brian Sandoval will sign Senate Bill 1 and Assembly Bill 1 into law at 11 a.m. Monday at the Richard Tam Alumni Center at UNLV.
Proponents of luring the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas to a planned $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat domed football stadium take on a new challenge with a familiar strategy beginning this week.
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