Nevada became the first state in the nation Thursday to authorize interactive gaming when Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Assembly Bill 114 into law in a ceremony in the Old Assembly Chambers in the Capitol.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
In remarks to the Legislature on Wednesday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that with the state economy on the mend, it is “crucial that we renew our investments in the future,” including pursuing a new Las Vegas arena that could help in Southern Nevada’s economic recovery.
Prostitution victims, law enforcement and others testified Wednesday at the first hearing of a bill that would create a new crime of sex trafficking to replace current pandering laws.
Senate Finance Committee Chairwoman Debbie Smith on Wednesday questioned the value of mandating co-pays or premiums by Medicaid patients given the enormous task facing the state of expanding the program under the federal health care law.
Democratic senators said Tuesday they want to offer tax incentives to induce employees to hire the unemployed, lure movie companies to Nevada and repair roads and bridges.
Attorneys involved in lawsuits against several hundred homeowners associations across the Las Vegas Valley said Tuesday that Assemblywoman Ellen Spiegel has improperly used her position to influence a neutral arbitrator in the dispute, a charge the lawmaker denies.
Groups ranging from the far right to the far left protested a bill Tuesday that would allow the secretary of state’s office to investigate and issue subpoenas to acquire records of Nevada charity groups.
CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Las Vegas, introduced a bill Monday designed to change the state construction defects law that currently allows lawyers to collect guaranteed legal fees, even if they lose.
CARSON CITY — Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, introduced a bill Monday authorizing students and others with permits to carry concealed weapons to bring their guns onto the campuses of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
CARSON CITY — In an effort to bring the Nevada Highway Patrol up to full staffing, the department is training 50 potential recruits at semiannual, 26-week academies, the Senate Transportation Committee learned Monday.
The new legislative session just got under way, but it already seems like the same old story for the world’s oldest profession in Nevada.
CARSON CITY — Soon after he graduated from the Wake Forest University law school, Lucas Foletta saw an advertisement by a federal judge who wanted to hire a law clerk.
Hispanic Govs. Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Susana Martinez of New Mexico were named honorary co-chairs of the Future Majority Caucus this month, part of a national Republican effort to recruit more women and minority candidates to run for state offices.
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 […]
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.
Gov. Joe Lombardo made sweeping policy proposals at his State of the State Address, including making teacher raises permanent and extending pay raises to charter school teachers.
