The Clark County Commission next week is expected to appoint Kasina Douglass-Boone, a longtime Clark County School District employee, to the vacant Assembly speat of the late Tyrone Thompson.
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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.
The Nevada Police Union is criticizing Gov. Steve Sisolak and legislative leaders for scheduling a special session on the same day as a slain Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant’s funeral.
Gov. Steve Sisolak has called a special legislative session for July 8 in Carson City to address budget shortfalls brought on by the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
A fast-growing fire raging just north of Reno on Saturday night has burned multiple buildings and forced evacuations near the University of Nevada, Reno, according to fire officials.
The federal government will begin removing a metric half-ton of weapons-grade plutonium that was secretly shipped to the state starting next year as part of a settlement agreement between Nevada and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 4041 has filed a labor complaint, saying Gov. Steve Sisolak is not following the state’s collective bargaining law.
State lawmakers on Thursday accepted millions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief funds, even as they learned more about the budget deficit facing Nevada.
Gov. Steve Sisolak announced that Nevada will move to adopt California’s car pollution standards, a move that comes as state officials have pushed back against the Trump administration’s decision to relax federal vehicle emission standards.
State lawmakers on Friday approved budget cuts for state agencies and rollbacks to funding for one-time projects to help offset an $812 million budget hole.
The governor unveiled the plan to state workers Thursday morning in a streamed video announcement and in a subsequent public statement.
The governor is asking a state board to pardon all Nevadans who had been previously convicted of low-level marijuana possession crimes.
Mesquite City Councilwoman Annie Black looks to be on her way to unseating three-term Assemblyman Chris Edwards in the Republican primary race for the northeast valley seat.
Nevada may soon see updates to law enforcement training, elected officials said Friday during a discussion on how best to address systemic inequalities amid national unrest.
Gov. Steve Sisolak angrily denounced instigators who might have come from out of state to foment trouble, as well as locals who vandalized fragile businesses.
The city of Reno and Washoe County issued mandatory curfews Saturday night after Reno City Hall was damaged and looted during protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.