Vaping is hazardous and should be treated like smoking cigarettes, the Southern Nevada Health District said Wednesday in backing a proposal to tax electronic cigarettes and their components as if they were tobacco.
Politics and Government
A sweeping gun bill was introduced in the Nevada Senate on Wednesday, seeking a wide range of legal changes from justifiable homicide to precluding people convicted of domestic violence from having firearms.
The Nevada Assembly minority leader called on a GOP assemblywoman to apologize for comments she made in The New York times about rape, concealed weapons and women on college campuses.
Poofy skirts swirled and gentlemen bowed in Carson City on Wednesday as square dancers entertained the Assembly Government Affairs Committee to urge support for a bill making the square dance Nevada’s official state dance.
Nevada’s economic development officials and a top economist told legislators Tuesday that providing tax abatements to massive “colocated” data centers will have staggering effects on the state’s economy, generating billions of dollars in economic activity.
Voters would be required to show photo identification before casting a ballot under a bill introduced Tuesday in the Nevada Senate.
A bill sought by Republican lawmakers to make changes to Nevada’s construction defect law passed the Assembly on a 25-17 party-line vote Tuesday.
A bill that would expand the definition of justifiable homicide to extend beyond a home invasion to include those defending themselves in a carjacking type of situation was introduced in the Assembly on Tuesday.
Chances are, the beast sitting on the bar stool next to you won’t be a real dog.
The Senate on Monday passed a divisive bill along party lines exempting school and university construction projects from prevailing wage laws.
The executive director of the Public Utilities Commission on Monday asked state lawmakers to increase salaries for professional staff to keep up with compensation not only within the private sector but also in other state agencies.
A bill seeking to change the makeup of the public employees retirement system board to include three public members with areas of expertise in pension plans ran into resistance Monday from some lawmakers and participants in the plan.
A bill that would require local governments to provide the public an advance look at the details of a proposed collective bargaining agreement before it is voted on by the governing body was introduced in the Senate Monday.
There will be no three-day President’s Day weekend for Nevada lawmakers who will plow through the third week of the 2015 session discussing wine, dancing, pooches in bars — and some serious stuff, too, that promises intense debate.
In Nevada it’s perfectly legal to pull out your checkbook only after you see who wins.
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.
