Workers in Gov. Brian Sandoval’s office have been so bombarded by calls from people who want him to veto the gun background check bill that they set up an automated phone system to allow “voting” on Senate Bill 221.
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Tyrone Thompson, the Nevada Legislature’s newest face, Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson, came to the capital in difficult circumstances but says he plans to run for the seat in 2014.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed a bill that specifies that parents have a “fundamental right” over the care, custody and management of their children.
Clark County residents could soon be forced to pay an extra 0.15 percent in sales taxes to boost law enforcement and an extra 3 cents per gallon of gas for build new roads.
In the 10 minutes before the Nevada Legislature adjourned at midnight Monday, Sen. Ruben Kihuen and Assemblyman James Healey, both D-Las Vegas, repeatedly sprinted down hallways in the Legislative Building, followed by a ragtag group of lobbyists and reporters, none of whom could match their speed.
CARSON CITY – It really wasn’t very special at all.
Gov. Brian Sandoval again took out his stamp and vetoed four more bills, while signing 24 others, including one to prevent minors from using tanning equipment and another that prohibits horse tripping.
Gay marriage, mining tax succeed; revenue items, legal marijuana were casualties
A hectic final day in the Legislature on Monday saw bills mandating background checks on gun sales and establishing medical marijuana dispensaries eke out narrow but final legislative victories, but Clark County’s More Cops sale tax hike fail.
The five bills making up the state’s two-year $6.6 billion general fund budget were passed by the Legislature on the last day of the session Monday with plenty of time to spare.
The Assembly on Monday gave final approval to the bill funding public education for the next two years, a move that will open the floodgates for other budget bills to pass.
CARSON CITY – A bill mandating background checks for most gun sales was passed out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee today in a surprise move that will likely send it to Gov. Brian Sandoval, who has threatened a veto.
CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed into law a bill that allows victims of domestic violence to break rental leases.
Former Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley still is seeking satisfaction from a U.S. House ethics investigation that dinged her for a conflict of interest as she was completing her service in Congress.
CARSON CITY — “Smokers’ corners” just off school property where teens gather to puff away on cigarettes with impunity soon may be relics of the past.
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 […]
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.
The city of Las Vegas is limiting how many animals pet stores and licensed breeders can sell to a individual households to one a year.
Sen. Jacky Rosen reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would implement “no taxes on tips,” a major campaign promise of President-elect Donald Trump.
