The Clark County Republican Party filed a complaint Wednesday with Nevada election officials alleging illegal contributions by a GOP activist for a political action committee seeking to recall fellow Republicans who haven’t taken a firm stance against Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed tax package.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and first lady Kathleen Sandoval visited Empire Elementary in the capital on Wednesday to issue a challenge to schools around the state to increase the number of children who eat breakfast at school.
A growing prison population, reduced federal grants, aging facilities and inmate hospital care are taxing the Nevada Department of Corrections and will be the focus of budget discussions during the upcoming legislative session, prison officials said Tuesday.
Southern Nevada is in line to get the biggest chunk of limited state road funding over the next four years because of two major freeway improvement projects, state lawmakers heard in a budget presentation Tuesday.
The head of the Nevada AFL-CIO proclaimed Tuesday that “working families are under attack” by Republican lawmakers who want to weaken collective bargaining laws and pensions now that they control the Legislature.
If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, would a tax by another name be as odious?
With Nevada’s economy rebounding and unemployment numbers greatly improved, state officials are looking beyond just job creation to laying the groundwork for a whole new economy based on high-tech.
Although Gov. Brian Sandoval has yet to articulate his plan to reform Nevada’s collective bargaining law, he will have no shortage of opportunities to push forward with changes to the statute that requires local governments to bargain in good faith with unions regarding pay, benefits and working conditions.
A small group is planning to launch a recall effort against Nevada Assembly Speaker-designee John Hambrick, hoping that last year’s low voter turnout and an anti-tax sentiment among hard-line conservatives will propel their work to gain the needed signatures.
A retirement system official said Thursday a report showing that some Nevada public employees who retire collect more in pension benefits than they did while working was based on less than 2 percent of beneficiaries.
In keeping with Gov. Brian Sandoval’s “modernization” theme for the upcoming legislative session, Nevada’s chief adviser on military and veterans issues said Thursday the governor’s sights are set on building a new veterans home in the Reno area while pursuing bills to improve access to jobs, education and benefits for veterans across the state.
Medicaid expansion has dramatically reduced Nevada’s general fund costs for providing mental health services, state officials told a panel of lawmakers Wednesday.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s new budget proposes to significantly increase funding to treat the estimated 6,000 children in Nevada diagnosed with autism, but even so, a wait list of about 1,000 children seeking services is expected to continue, state lawmakers were told Wednesday.
A new initiative proposed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to have the state take over under-performing schools will likely involve only a handful of the troubled institutions initially, a state official said Tuesday.
After years of keeping state buildings patched together on a shoestring budget, Gov. Brian Sandoval is proposing $234 million in projects involving everything from keeping the lights on and paving parking lots to moving forward with a new hotel college and Department of Motor Vehicles office in Las Vegas.
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.
As President Donald Trump was sworn into office inside the Capitol Rotunda, several people with Nevada ties were present, some sitting prominently onstage.
President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address sounded a lot like his first, with a sweeping indictment of the country he inherits and grand promises to fix its problems.
