CARSON CITY — Nevadans would be able to support public education by “toking up ” if a bill introduced Monday becomes law.
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CARSON CITY — A bill that would allow the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue “driver privilege cards” to undocumented immigrants was introduced with bipartisan support in the state Senate on Monday.
Today will be the first day in the 43-day-old 2013 legislative session when lawmakers work late into the evening.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill designed to provide a fairer distribution of sales, cigarette, liquor and other state taxes to cities and counties.
CARSON CITY — Declaring a “brass knuckles” approach to johns, Assemblyman John Hambrick introduced a bill Friday calling for life sentences for people who solicit minor prostitutes.
CARSON CITY — The Legislature’s legal counsel on Friday asked the Nevada Supreme Court for more time to respond to troubled lawmaker Steven Brooks’ demand to serve in the Legislature, saying the petition filed on his behalf “is lacking in cogent legal argument.”
CARSON CITY — The man who killed four people in a IHOP restaurant in 2011 was a “paranoid schizophrenic” and “gun nut” who wrote a high school paper on gun safety, Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong told legislators Friday.
Secretary of State Ross Miller told lawmakers Thursday that his plan to include a photo of each registered voter in new electronic poll books would improve ballot access and not disenfranchise voters.
The work of an independent counsel hired by the Assembly to investigate whether troubled lawmaker Steven Brooks should be removed from office will cost an estimated $45,000, documents released Thursday show.
The Nevada State Education Association’s initiative petition to raise $800 million for public education through a 2 percent business margins tax is headed to the 2014 statewide ballot after no action was taken by legislators Thursday.
The mothers of two murdered college students and the father of rescued kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday that hundreds of lives would be saved and falsely convicted inmates would be exonerated if the Nevada Legislature approves a bill to require anyone arrested for a felony crime to give a DNA cheek swab to police.
Nevada health officials acknowledged Thursday that proper discharge policies weren’t followed in the case of a mentally ill man who was put on a bus to Sacramento, Calif., after his release from a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital.
A bill to outlaw the private ownership of chimpanzees, lions, bears and other potentially dangerous animals and reptiles was introduced as promised Wednesday by Nevada state Sen. Michael Roberson.
While legislators spoke of their fondness for putting the pedal to the metal, they also noted Wednesday that legislation increasing the speed limit to as much as 85 mph on selected roads in Nevada could have dire consequences for teenage drivers.
The death of a Las Vegas woman during cosmetic surgery in a floor tile company spawned a bill, which received a favorable reception Tuesday, that would bring long prison sentences to unlicensed doctors.
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 […]
Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president on Monday.
Sen. Jacky Rosen reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would implement “no taxes on tips,” a major campaign promise of President-elect Donald Trump.
A $200 million public-private partnership to reduce homelessness in Southern Nevada will move forward, Gov. Joe Lombardo said in his State of the State speech.
The high-rise was approved on Wednesday by the Las Vegas City Council.
