A modern-day abolitionist movement that includes Las Vegas law enforcement officials, the state attorney general’s office, legislators and grass-roots activists wants to reclassify the pimps who dominate the world’s oldest profession as modern-day slave traders.
It cost Nevada taxpayers $94,508.12 for the legal and investigative work in the review that led to the ouster of former Assemblyman Steven Brooks from his District 17 seat, documents show.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed into law a bill to give the secretary of state and attorney general’s office more control over charitable organizations that solicit donations in Nevada.
The Senate on a 13-8 vote Tuesday approved a bill to give tax credits to movie companies that film in Nevada.
Despite concerns that customers who mistake an underage prostitute for an adult could end up in prison for life, a sex trafficking bill now appears on its way to final approval in the Nevada Senate later this week.
A debate in the Legislature over how to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill took a twist Tuesday when Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson introduced his own competing bill to help accomplish that goal.
A resolution that could lead to annual sessions for the Nevada Legislature won approval Tuesday from an Assembly committee, but not before it was amended to remove language that would have allowed lawmakers to meet and vote outside of the capital.
A proposal to earmark $2 million for a nonprofit group to recruit teachers for at-risk schools in Clark County won the endorsement Tuesday of the Senate Finance Committee.
CARSON CITY — A bill allowing people who are not in the country legally to acquire driver authorization cards is on its way to Gov. Brian Sandoval.
CARSON CITY – Sorry guys in the Assembly, even on Memorial Day you can’t name “Picon Punch” the official drink of Nevada.
CARSON CITY – If you’re a political candidate, your home is where you say it is, even if that’s outside the district you want to represent.
A bill to allow unauthorized residents to drive legally in Nevada is not a special privilege for people here illegally but a recognition that the federal government has failed miserably at controlling illegal immigration, a Utah state senator said.
UNLV officials say they want a direct partnership with the major hotel-casinos of the Strip to build a new domed stadium on campus.
Nevada lawmakers are rounding the final turn and heading down the backstretch of the final full week of the 2013 session.
Groups on both sides of the gun control debate are mustering their forces for a legislative hearing Tuesday on a bill that would require background checks for private-sale weapons purchases.
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.
