CARSON CITY — Rep. Joe Heck told a joint session of the Legislature on Wednesday that he is working to increase overseas travel and tourism to the United States by speeding up the processing of tourist visas.
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The state Senate voted 15-6 Wednesday to allow the Department of Transportation to increase the speed limit to as high as 85 mph on selected highways in Nevada.
Six state Senate Republican senators have rejected the conclusion in a secretary of state’s legal opinion that their plan to offer a mining tax increase to voters to compete with a business margins tax on the 2014 ballot is not permissible under the state constitution.
State Sen. Ruben Kihuen may have stated quite simply Wednesday why Nevada should adopt driving privilege cards for undocumented residents: Every state that has adopted them has shown a drop in accidents and a drop insurance premium costs.
Amanda Collins, who was raped at UNR in 2007, testified before an Assembly committee Wednesday in support of Assembly Bill 143, which would allow permit holders to carry their guns on campus.
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.
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.
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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