The Assembly Commerce and Labor Committee was the stomping ground Friday for a bill to expand commercial wineries into Nevada’s two largest counties, a move backers said is needed to establish the industry.
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A bill that would expand legal protections for justifiable homicides involving occupied vehicles, as well as making it illegal for anyone convicted of domestic violence, even a misdemeanor offense, to own a gun, won unanimous approval from a Nevada Senate committee on Friday.
A measure aimed at regulating federal law enforcement activities in Nevada and making the sheriff the pre-eminent authority in each county was introduced Friday in the Assembly.
The second of two bills aimed at making college more affordable for Nevada students attracted strong support in a hearing Friday before the Senate Education Committee.
An alleged sexual assault victim of comedian Bill Cosby asked the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Friday to approve a bill that would eliminate the criminal statute of limitations for rape in Nevada.
Hundreds of union members rallied in front of the Nevada Legislature on Thursday to protest Republican efforts to curb collective bargaining and push public employee retirement reforms.
An alleged victim of actor and comedian Bill Cosby and the victim’s attorney, Gloria Allred, will testify Friday in support of a bill at the Legislature that would eliminate the criminal statute of limitations for rape in Nevada.
Nevada counties would no longer have to publish annual tax rolls in local newspapers but instead could post the information on the Internet under a measure passed Thursday by a Senate committee.
An economic development bill making its way through the Legislature that is aimed at expanding natural gas coverage to unserved areas of Nevada has the potential to cost all customers of a utility and not just those receiving the benefit.
Employers would have to provide paid sick leave for workers under a bill introduced Thursday in the Nevada Senate.
Backers of a measure to hike Nevada’s minimum wage to $15 an hour said Wednesday the move would elevate workers out of poverty and reduce demands for public assistance, while critics countered it would shrink the availability of entry-level jobs and harm the economy.
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., talked about the importance of constructing Interstate 11 and promoting Nevada’s commercial drone testing efforts in remarks Wednesday to the Legislature.
A bill seeking to change the public employees retirement system for future hires by switching to a mostly defined-contribution plan was passed out of a Nevada Assembly committee on Wednesday on a split vote with no recommendation.
A bill seeking to change Nevada’s public employees retirement system for future hires by switching to a mostly defined-contribution plan has a hefty price tag in the neighborhood of $800 million a year, according to a fiscal note submitted for the measure.
The state Department of Motor Vehicles is facing a perfect storm of new responsibilities and program changes that is generating a huge jump in customers and growing wait times at its offices, lawmakers were told Tuesday.
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 […]
Grassroots advocates derided President Donald Trump’s bevy of immigration-related executive orders and a bipartisan bill they say threaten marginalized communities.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who graduated from UNLV and was involved in the 2014 Bundy ranch standoff, had his 18-year prison sentence commuted by Donald Trump.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford signed onto a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order issued on his first day back in the White House.
As President Donald Trump was sworn into office inside the Capitol Rotunda, several people with Nevada ties were present, some sitting prominently onstage.
