Several small limousine companies are pushing a bill in the Legislature that they say would allow them to increase their fleets without unfair interference by big taxi and limo company operators such as Bell Trans and other members of the Livery Operators Association of Las Vegas.
A “campus carry” amendment that would have allowed firearms on college campuses in Nevada was removed from a gun bill Thursday. The Assembly voted 24-18 to kill the controversial proposal. The rest of the bill is still alive.
A bill backed by the Nevada gaming equipment industry was signed Thursday by Gov. Brian Sandoval and will allow state gaming regulators to adopt rules where slot machines can add a skill-based, arcade-style element to the game.
A resolution that would ask voters in 2016 to amend the Nevada constitution to allow annual sessions of the state Legislature won a critical vote in a Senate committee Thursday.
Supporters say funding for the International Center for Excellence in Gaming Regulation would help move the project along as it continues to seek private donations.
The bill requires a lawmaker who leaves office to skip one legislative session before returning to the Legislature as a paid lobbyist.
Two lawmakers with long experience in crafting Nevada’s rooftop-solar policy said Wednesday they never intended to continually raise the net metering cap beyond the 3 percent level now in law.
“We have to stop bullying. We have to,” Sandoval told students at Carson City Middle School in an emotional speech moments before he signed Senate Bill 504 into law.
Members of the Legislature’s two money committees on Wednesday narrowly approved $858,000 to build a new execution chamber at Nevada’s maximum security prison at Ely as requested by the Department of Corrections.
Supporters of a Republican-backed bill to scrap Nevada’s presidential caucuses for a secret-ballot primary in February argued Tuesday that the move would expand participation in choosing the nation’s president.
A Right to Try bill that would make it easier for terminally ill Nevadans to obtain experimental medications that could help prolong their lives is on its way to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s desk after winning unanimous approval in the Senate on Tuesday.
The Nevada Senate gave final legislative action Tuesday to a bill designed to set limits on drones and protect privacy rights.
CARSON CITY — Springing ahead and falling back may be history in Nevada if Congress listens to the state Legislature. The Nevada Senate on Monday approved Assembly Joint Resolution 4 on a vote of 12-8. It urges Congress to let Nevada set its clocks once and for all to daylight saving time and keep them there.
A Senate resolution that asks Congress to convey more than 7 million acres of federal land to state control won final passage Monday in the Nevada Legislature.
Nearly $50 million in funding for a new UNLV Hotel College academic building and almost $23 million for a new DMV service office at the East Sahara location in Las Vegas were both approved Monday by a panel of lawmakers.
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 […]
Affordability and housing are atop the ticket and voters, such as Latinos, have money and the economy on their mind as they cast their votes, new surveys find.
Half of Nevada’s registered voters have already cast a ballot. Here’s what the voting turnout indicates.
Ohio Sen. JD Vance spoke at a rally Saturday morning at the Whitney Recreation Center, just three days before the election.
Robert Telles is under “close” security at the prison northwest of Las Vegas, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections website.
