Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick insisted Tuesday that police departments in Clark County specify how many additional officers they will hire before she backs a bill that could impose an additional quarter-cent “More Cops” sales tax.
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A plan by state Senate Republicans to spend $600 million to $800 million more a year on education starting in 2015 might be derailed by a secretary of state’s legal opinion released Tuesday.
Rep. Steven Horsford told a joint session of the state Assembly and Senate on Tuesday that the sequester mandating across-the-board federal spending cuts is creating severe economic consequences for Nevada.
Ousted Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks pleaded not guilty Tuesday in San Bernardino County Superior Court in California to three felony charges and one misdemeanor in connection with a freeway chase Thursday night.
The letter sent to state employees from Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday was not an April Fool’s joke. Sandoval announced that due to efficiencies and reduced costs expected in his proposed budget, he will seek to eliminate state worker furloughs beginning July 1, 2014.
CARSON CITY — The state Senate voted 17-4 Monday for a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the Legislature, with voter approval, to set taxes on gold and other minerals.
At a hearing Friday on a bill to establish dispensaries for medical marijuana in Nevada, state Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, made it official: He did not bring back any samples from a Senate Judiciary Committee trip to Arizona last week to view the operation of a dispensary in Phoenix.
CARSON CITY — State legislators will reach the 60th day, or halfway point, of the 2013 legislative session on Thursday.
Recognizing a cultural shift, some top Nevada Republican lawmakers have joined an effort to repeal the states’s decade-old constitutional language that defines marriage as between a man and a woman, taking the first step toward possibly legalizing gay marriage.
The video is disturbing, if not shocking. Former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks is thrown to the ground, and a police officer jumps on him. The officer winds up for three powerful punches, although it’s unclear whether he strikes Brooks.
The ninth week of the Nevada Legislature will feature hearings on bills that would allow election betting, create a state dog and expand the state’s English language learners program.
Without mentioning Assemblyman Andrew Martin, Democratic and Republican Assembly leaders testified Friday for a bill to prevent situations like the one that occurred last year when he was elected even though a district judge ruled he could not run.
A bill that would authorize the establishment of dispensaries where Nevadans could purchase marijuana for medicinal purposes must ensure the facilities operate like professional pharmacies and not follow the “Jerry Garcia lounge” model, a lawmaker said Friday.
A state law that allows young women to dance in the nude once they reach 18 years of age, as long as alcohol is not served, is under fire in the Nevada Senate.
The bizarre 10-week long odyssey of troubled state lawmaker Steven Brooks saw some measure of finality Thursday when the Nevada Assembly voted to expel him from the Nevada Legislature.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit Las Vegas on Friday following the first 2024 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Nevada’s capital city lost residents last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, but the city is disputing the federal agency’s numbers.
State and national Democrats are leading a lawsuit that seeks to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from appearing on Nevada’s presidential ballot, citing state law.
The Washoe County District Attorney’s Office says the family of Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks will host a Celebration of Life in his memory in Reno next week.
