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CARSON CITY — The national gun debate came to the state Legislature on Monday when three measures, including a bill that would allow public school and university system employees with concealed-weapons permits to carry their guns at work, were heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
CARSON CITY — Steven Brooks’ nascent political career in the Nevada Legislature could be derailed this week when his Assembly colleagues decide whether he is fit to serve.
A proposal downtown Las Vegas boosters view as a no-brainer still faces plenty of skepticism in the Legislature and even at City Hall.
When the Senate Transportation Committee met March 13 to discuss Sen. Don Gustavson’s bill to increase the speed limit to 85 mph, just a handful of Nevadans showed up in the hearing room.
The Nevada Assembly could make history this week as a special committee considers whether an embattled colleague who’s been arrested twice, hospitalized for a mental evaluation and banished from the Legislative Building is fit to serve in the Legislature.
A contingent of Nevada lawmakers checked out a medical marijuana dispensary here Friday but they weren’t shopping. No drugs or money changed hands during their visit.
Despite health authorities’ warnings of the dangers of raw milk, a dozen residents asked Assembly Health and Human Services Committee members Friday to allow the legal sale of the product in Nevada.
A line of local government and business officials endorsed a bill Thursday that could increase fuel taxes in Clark County by about 3 cents a gallon a year and allow the Regional Transportation Commission to issue bonds to construct $800 million in highway projects.
By a surprising majority, state senators voted 20-1 Thursday for a bill that would add crimes committed against transgender people to the list of hate crimes for which Nevada judges can order enhanced prison sentences.
Four members of the Nevada Legislature have signed a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to back the XpressWest bullet train from Las Vegas to Victorville, Calif.
Nevada lawmakers questioned Corrections Department Director Greg Cox on Wednesday about the need to build a new $700,000 execution chamber at Ely State Prison.
The Assembly Select Committee considering whether to oust troubled lawmaker Steven Brooks from the Legislature will meet Tuesday night in the Carson City District Court offices, Assembly Majority Leader William Horne said Wednesday.
Former Republican Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert of Reno is being accused of illegally keeping unspent campaign money and then disposing of it improperly.
CARSON CITY — Sen. Tick Segerblom made his case for annual legislative sessions Tuesday, arguing lawmakers could do their jobs better by meeting every year rather than every other year as the state constitution mandates.
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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