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.
Colton Lochhead
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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.
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.
The upcoming legislative session will be closed to the general public, with only lawmakers, essential staff and a limited number of media members allowed in the building due to COVID-19 concerns.
Nevada state spending over the next two years would shrink by 2 percent over current levels under Gov. Steve Sisolak’s proposed biennium budget.
The woman was there to protest the expected protesters, who never showed.
A Las Vegas assemblyman who police have been investigating over allegations of misused campaign funds has resigned from his seat in the state Legislature.