CARSON CITY — Don’t count on Nevada joining the movement to elect the president by popular vote anytime soon.
Politics and Government
CARSON CITY — A bill extending the legal deadline for notifying school district employees that they will be rehired or laid off for the next school year was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel was asked Tuesday to back a watered-down plan, already approved by the Assembly, that would require government agencies that employ lobbyists to submit reports explaining terms of their contracts.
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CARSON CITY — Changes to speed up workplace safety training for new employees, in efforts to reduce on-the-job deaths and injuries, prompted questions Monday in a Nevada Assembly committee hearing.
CARSON CITY — About 340 lawyers have volunteered to serve as mediators to work with lenders to keep Nevadans from losing their homes to foreclosure, Nevada Chief Justice Jim Hardesty said Monday.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada assemblyman said Friday that he was not trying to get back at any particular governor with his bill that would require a legislative committee to review and confirm some gubernatorial appointments.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Assembly advanced a plan Friday to create a database that would make it easier to find low-income housing.
CARSON CITY — Wedding chapel lobbyists and advocates for programs to stop domestic violence clashed Friday over a bill to help fund those programs by adding $5 to the cost of a Nevada marriage license.
CARSON CITY — With copper prices on the rise again, scrap metal dealers and utilities urged senators Thursday to pass a bill designed to make locating and prosecuting scrap metal thieves easier.
CARSON CITY — Police told lawmakers Thursday they want drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and not on their cell phones.
CARSON CITY — On a voice vote Thursday, the Assembly Transportation Committee killed a Senate-passed bill that would have allowed police to pull over vehicles anytime they believed the driver is not wearing a seat belt.
CARSON CITY — Critics of a plan to fluoridate Reno-area water got so worked up Wednesday that state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford had to bang his gavel to wrap up public comment on the measure.
CARSON CITY — Key lawmakers said Wednesday the hole in Nevada’s budget has grown by another $100 million, bringing the projected shortfall closer to $3 billion to maintain current government service levels in the next two fiscal years.
CARSON CITY — A joint Senate-Assembly budget panel decided Tuesday to add back nearly 400 slots for elderly Nevadans who qualify for government-funded home care and community programs, rejecting recommendations from Gov. Jim Gibbons to reduce the openings.
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 […]
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, publicly faced senators for the first time after weeks of questions from Democrats — and praise from Republicans — about his “unconventional” resume.
Las Vegas’ Planning Commission could vote on a set of items related to a new housing development proposed for the defunct Badlands golf course, according to the body’s meeting agenda.
Carrie Underwood opened Resorts World Theatre in November 2021. Next week she’s starring at Trump’s inaugural event.
The Southern Nevada Health District is urging Clark County residents to take precautions against respiratory illnesses such as influenza and COVID-19.
