Nevada
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers are stepping up the pace as they start the sixth week of their 120-day legislative session today, with more budgeting hearings and several committees holding work sessions to vote on bills.
CARSON CITY — State Sen. John Lee thinks it’s a fair trade: You pay a mandatory $3 more for your annual vehicle registration, and you get into Nevada’s 25 state parks for free.
CARSON CITY — A rash of broken jaws and an aging prison population have driven up medical costs across the Nevada prison system, state correctional officials told lawmakers Friday.
CARSON CITY — The state’s colleges and universities will eliminate programs, lay off hundreds of employees and leave thousands of students with nowhere else to go if the governor’s budget goes through, the institutions’ presidents said Friday.
CARSON CITY — Nevada Assembly members welcomed a special guest Friday — 19-day-old Xavier Carson Alejandre, the son of Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz.
How about this for a budget-cutting plan: reduce the number of Nevada lawmakers to save money. Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, threw out the idea on Thursday as legislators kicked off their first hearing on redistricting, the process of redrawing the state’s political map every 10 years.