Progressive Democrat Patricia Spearman scored an upset victory over two-term incumbent state Sen. John Lee in the Senate District 1 primary Tuesday.
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Nevada’s slowly improving economy has produced $58.9 million more in state tax revenue than expected and should add 10,000 to 15,000 more workers this year, a state committee was told Monday.
Nevada employers no longer would be permitted to fire employees they suspect are communists if the 2013 Legislature approves a soon-to-be-drafted bill.
The Legislative Commission on Wednesday unanimously selected longtime staff fiscal analyst Rick Combs as director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
The Assembly’s new Republican leader called Monday for campaign contribution limits, fall primary elections and a cooling-off period before former legislators can return as legislative lobbyists.
Assembly fiscal analyst Rick Combs was picked Tuesday as the new director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday he would vote to legalize same-sex marriage if it were put on the ballot in Nevada, saying he was persuaded by family members for whom “marriage equality” is accepted in today’s world.
A state legislator vowed to take steps to repeal Nevada’s constitutional ban on gay marriage almost immediately after President Barack Obama announced his support for such marriages Wednesday.
No Nevada legislators stepped forward Thursday to support spending more on the Millennium Scholarship program in order to reduce the increasing college costs paid by students.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and Internet sales giant Amazon announced an agreement Monday to allow the state to begin collecting sales taxes on the company’s Internet sales to Nevada customers beginning in 2014.
Investigators aren’t buying the conspiracy theories circulating about the deaths of four people — including two prominent attorneys within five days of each other– tied to the federal probe into the takeover of Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
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.
