Lawmakers spent time deliberating a host of issues, from the right to carry a firearm on college campuses to switching to a new presidential primary system.
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The end times didn’t fall upon organized labor this legislative session, despite initial fears from union leaders that the GOP-led red wave endangered their way of doing business.
With the 2015 Nevada legislative session safely over, now we await the unintended consequences of just-passed legislation.
Two bills backed by the Nevada sports betting industry that could lead to an increase in the $3.9 billion already wagered annually in the state’s sports books were signed into law by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Bills enacting unprecedented school choice options for parents in Nevada and prohibiting people convicted of domestic violence from having guns were signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The Nevada Legislature came to a halt at midnight Monday, capping a day that saw approval of a record $1.1 billion general fund tax package to fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s aggressive education package and a dizzying day of dealmaking.
One casualty of the 2015 legislative session was a GOP-supported bill that would have allowed political parties to end Nevada’s presidential caucus system and switch to a secret-ballot primary.
Members of the Legislature on Monday agreed to make changes to Nevada’s strong anti-SLAPP law to ensure it can withstand a constitutional challenge.
Rep. Cresent Hardy, R-Nev., on May 13 reintroduced a bill that would name one of the peaks of Frenchman Mountain to the east of Las Vegas for President Ronald Reagan. The peak would become known as Mount Reagan.
With a critical Assembly vote Sunday approving Gov. Brian Sandoval’s controversial new gross receipts tax, all of the moving pieces were falling into place to ensure that the 2015 legislative session will adjourn by midnight Monday.
The Nevada Assembly late Sunday approved Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $1.1 billion package of new and extended taxes, embracing the popular Republican governor’s ambitious education agenda and determination to position Nevada’s workforce for a high-tech economy.
A joint legislative conference committee approved a change to Nevada’s overtime and minimum wage law Sunday.
Richard Dooling, the husband of Nevada Assemblywoman Victoria Dooling, died Sunday in the Las Vegas area.
Kim Caipa praised young people Saturday for the passage of Brady’s Bill — named after her dead son — that could save the lives of high school and college students in Nevada.
Faced with wildly divergent estimates of the cost of moving Nevada’s current public employee pension system to a defined contribution plan for new workers, a state lawmaker said Saturday he is abandoning the effort this session.
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 […]
The district said that if a law enforcement officer or government agent appears at a school, the staff should ask for identification and the reason for their visit.
A Las Vegas resident could be President Donald Trump’s FBI director — though he’ll have to win Senate confirmation in order to take the reins.
Councilwoman Carrie Cox fired back after attorneys for Henderson’s mayor sent Cox a cease and desist letter accusing Cox of “spreading rumors about a purported extra-marital affair.”
The members-only big-box chain plans to open a sprawling retail building in the southwest valley.
