State lawmakers considered a last-minute effort on Thursday to fund police and fire services in North Las Vegas as the city teeters on the brink of financial ruin.
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Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed a bill that removes archaic language from a 1950s law passed during the Cold War era of constant tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Nevada Senate backed a bill Wednesday that would set up medical marijuana dispensaries and grow farms across the state.
Nevada Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick said Wednesday she is not pushing Majestic Realty’s initiative to partner with the state to build a $770 million domed 60,000-seat stadium near the UNLV campus.
A modern-day abolitionist movement that includes Las Vegas law enforcement officials, the state attorney general’s office, legislators and grass-roots activists wants to reclassify the pimps who dominate the world’s oldest profession as modern-day slave traders.
It cost Nevada taxpayers $94,508.12 for the legal and investigative work in the review that led to the ouster of former Assemblyman Steven Brooks from his District 17 seat, documents show.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed into law a bill to give the secretary of state and attorney general’s office more control over charitable organizations that solicit donations in Nevada.
The Senate on a 13-8 vote Tuesday approved a bill to give tax credits to movie companies that film in Nevada.
Despite concerns that customers who mistake an underage prostitute for an adult could end up in prison for life, a sex trafficking bill now appears on its way to final approval in the Nevada Senate later this week.
A debate in the Legislature over how to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill took a twist Tuesday when Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson introduced his own competing bill to help accomplish that goal.
A resolution that could lead to annual sessions for the Nevada Legislature won approval Tuesday from an Assembly committee, but not before it was amended to remove language that would have allowed lawmakers to meet and vote outside of the capital.
A proposal to earmark $2 million for a nonprofit group to recruit teachers for at-risk schools in Clark County won the endorsement Tuesday of the Senate Finance Committee.
CARSON CITY — A bill allowing people who are not in the country legally to acquire driver authorization cards is on its way to Gov. Brian Sandoval.
CARSON CITY – Sorry guys in the Assembly, even on Memorial Day you can’t name “Picon Punch” the official drink of Nevada.