On the first day of the 2017 Legislature, the new Democratic leaders of Nevada’s Assembly and Senate showed they’ll pursue similar agendas in much different ways.
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Nevada lawmakers passed one bill Monday, authorizing funding to pay for the 2017 session.
The Justice Department has filed a brief with a federal appeals court in support of President Donald Trump’s travel and refugee ban.
Partisan divides percolated on the opening day of the Nevada Legislature on Monday when Republicans and Democrats in the Senate clashed over rules that will govern how the session is conducted.
Two bills from the 2015 Nevada Legislature that relate to voter identification and firearms on school properties have been revived for the 2017 session.
Vice President Mike Pence could be forced to cast a historic, tie-breaking vote Tuesday in the U.S. Senate on the presidential nomination of Betsy DeVos to be education secretary.
A group of people surrounded two cars stopped on the side of Moapa Valley Boulevard.
If the members of the Nevada Youth Legislature are any indication, there’s a chance that at some point those on both sides of the political fence may come together and do great things.
The 2017 legislative session begins today, and Democrats have only the illusion of control.
Well owners demonstrated before the Nevada Legislature convened Monday to protest proposed measures to regulate domestic wells that will be considered during the 120-day session.
As a youngster in Texas, Aaron Ford didn’t know his family was poor. It was just a fact of life that utilities — water, gas — got shut off sometimes. You dealt with it. “I just believed this is how folks lived,” said Ford, who on Monday takes command in the Nevada Senate as Democratic majority leader when the 2017 Legislature convenes.
Billionaire casino magnate Steve Wynn says he voted for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008, and he didn’t fully embrace the 2016 candidacy of longtime rival Donald Trump until after the real estate developer had already won.
Today is the first day of the 2017 Legislative Session. Democrats control the Assembly, 27-15, and the Senate, 12-9. Governor Brian Sandoval is a Republican, however, and Democrats need two-third majorities to pass any tax increases or override a gubernatorial veto.
The Kremlin is indignant over the comments by Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, who called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “killer” in an interview with President Donald Trump.
Lawyers for Washington state and Minnesota have told a federal appellate court that restoring President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries would “unleash chaos again.”
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
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