Hiking up prices on toilet paper, food and other goods during an emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic would be illegal under a bill heard in the Nevada Legislature on Wednesday.
Colton Lochhead
Carson City bureau chief
Email: clochhead@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-4638
Twitter: @ColtonLochhead
Colton Lochhead covers pot and politics for the Review-Journal, where he started as an intern covering crime and breaking news in 2012. Raised in Las Vegas, the life-long desert rat graduated from Bonanza High School before earning his journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The legislation comes amid concerns of a potential torrent of evictions in Nevada caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Steve Sisolak provided an update on Nevada’s COVID-19 vaccination playbook, education and youth sports on Wednesday.
After a slow start to the 2021 Legislature, Gov. Steve Sisolak last week signed a bill to provide $50 million in coronavirus aid to small businesses and nonprofits.
People of color make up nearly half of the Nevada marijuana industry workforce, but the executive-level positions for cannabis companies skew significantly whiter, according to a new survey.
Nevada lawmakers late Wednesday moved a bill forward that would double available grant funding for small businesses and nonprofits affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could form a new local government in Nevada.
About one-third of Nevada’s corrections staff have been vaccinated for COVID-19, while just one inmate has received the vaccine, the department said Tuesday.
The Nevada Legislature convened for its 81st regular session Monday, kicking off its biennial 120-day session slowly in a legislative building still shuttered due to the COVID-19 threat.
Lyon County on Thursday became the latest rural county to rebel against Gov. Steve Sisolak’s emergency directives that put restrictions on businesses.
Twelve newcomers to Carson City — two in the state Senate, 10 in the Assembly — will join the Nevada Legislature when it convenes on Feb. 1.
Nevada’s 2021 Legislature is set to begin Monday, with mostly virtual sessions because of the coronavirus.
A Carson City judge has thrown out the lawsuits that sought to block a trio of mining tax proposals from advancing through the Legislature and possibly to voters in 2022.
A marijuana testing lab was intentionally passing tainted cannabis products that should have failed and inflating THC results for clients, state regulators said in a new complaint Tuesday.
The Department of Corrections is drafting a new regulation that would allow up to half of the money families send to some prisoners to be garnished and applied to restitution.
1
2
3
4
5
McCarran Airport name change backed by air traffic controllers
Investigation into Henderson city clerk’s office leads to resignations
Carvana unveils 11-story car vending machine to Las Vegas
Neighbor beats woman to death in ‘unprovoked’ attack, police say
Fry’s Electronics closing all stores, including Las Vegas location