Nevadans need a law to require members of state boards and commissions to provide their email addresses and phone numbers, a state legislator said Monday.
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The Obama administration streamlined the development of 17 vast tracts across the West, including five in Nevada, for large-scale solar projects.
Days after Buddy the chimpanzee was shot and killed following an escape in northwest Las Vegas, a state senator announced Monday he will introduce a bill in the 2013 legislative session to prohibit Nevadans from keeping chimps, large wild cats and other exotic animals as pets.
As he has done in every Legislature since 1997, Sen. Don Gustavson intends to introduce a bill next year to repeal Nevada’s 40-year-old law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets.
State Demographer Jeff Hardcastle told a legislative panel Wednesday that the population of Nevada, once a young person’s state, is rapidly aging and will require state government to spend more on care for older people, especially those with dementia, in coming years.
The number of Nevadans with permission to use medical marijuana has skyrocketed to 3,430, the state Health Division announced Monday.
In a move aimed at preventing a Jerry Sandusky type sex crime scandal from occurring in Nevada, Assemblyman Pete Livermore said Thursday he will introduce a bill that could bring more reporting of sex crimes against children.
The 2013 Legislature will consider a proposal to adopt legal ways to reduce the illegal immigration population in Nevada and another to let election workers request photo identification before voters can cast ballots.
A bill allowing registered medical marijuana users in Nevada to acquire the outlawed drug is one of the 144 bills being drawn up for consideration at the 2013 Legislature.
Assembly Democrats sought to set Nevada’s state political agenda Monday by laying out economic proposals they say will be a framework for upcoming campaigns and the 2013 legislative session.
Jobs have been found for all the correctional officers laid off when the 150-year-old Nevada State Prison in Carson City closed in January.
On largely a party-line vote, legislators agreed Thursday to allow Secretary of State Ross Miller to spend $800,000 for a voter registration effort.
Veterans could ask the Department of Motor Vehicles to place on their driver’s licenses a designation that they were honorably discharged from the armed forces under a bill headed to the 2013 Legislature.
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.
