The conservative group Citizen Outreach has been fined $10,000, plus attorneys fees and costs of $7,600, for failing to file campaign expense reports detailing the source of funds to pay for mailers criticizing then-Assemblyman John Oceguera in his 2010 re-election campaign.
Politics and Government
Western Nevada College President Carol Lucey announced Tuesday she will step down from her position, saying she is unwilling to serve as president through another legislative session.
New social media and personal credit privacy laws have been enacted recently in a number of states around the country — including Nevada — could present problems for businesses, according to a Las Vegas-based labor and employment attorney.
Earlier this year, members of the Nevada Assembly took a pass on a controversy involving Assembly freshman Andrew Martin, D-Las Vegas, over questions about whether he actually lived in his district.
Nevadans are facing a Monday deadline to register their off-highway vehicles under a new state law, but only a fraction of owners have done so.
Bills implementing Nevada’s new, two-year $6.6 billion general fund budget, creating driver authorization cards for undocumented Nevada residents and requiring DNA testing of those arrested for felony crimes are among the nearly 200 new laws that will become law on July 1.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval was popular with voters before heading into the 2013 legislative session, with a 52-28 favorability rating.
Now that he has introduced legislation to redesignate swaths of federal land around Gold Butte and Lake Mead, Rep. Steven Horsford is holding meetings in northeastern Clark County to refine and sell it.
Gov. Brian Sandoval kept his promise Thursday and vetoed the legislatively-approved bill that would have required universal background checks for firearm purchases in Nevada.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Thursday signed the so-called “More Cops” bill that enables the Clark County Commission, with support of two-thirds of its members, to increase the county’s sales tax rate, now 8.1 percent, to 8.25 percent.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday signed into law Sen. Tick Segerblom’s bill to set up state-regulated medical marijuana dispensaries and grow farms.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday that he will sign the two bills that will allow the Clark County Commission to raise gas and sales taxes.
CARSON CITY — With the adjournment of the 2013 Legislature early Tuesday, several veteran legislators are preparing to run for other offices while others are heading into retirement because they have been term-limited out of jobs.
CARSON CITY — Don’t expect much change in the party makeup of the Nevada Legislature when it next convenes in 2015, but the Democrats could increase their majority by one seat in the state Senate.
Secretary of State Ross Miller expressed disgust last week over the Legislature’s rejection of his Senate Bill 49, which would have required politicians to report and post online any contributions of $2,000 or more within 48 hours.
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 […]
Former President Donald Trump revved up his supporters to get out and vote in the campaign’s final push ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
With Election Day less than a week away, Vice President Kamala Harris made another push for Nevada’s vote by rallying supporters in North Las Vegas.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance will each make campaign stops in Las Vegas on Saturday, just days before the Tuesday election.
Trump appeared onstage in a orange safety vest after riding in a garbage truck to draw attention to an offensive comment by President Joe Biden.