Gov. Steve Sisolak and legislative Democrats are advancing a two-pronged plan to add money to schools: First, use a 10 percent excise tax on recreational marijuana sales, and second, authorize county governments to raise the local sales tax.
Colton Lochhead
Carson City bureau chief
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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.
A debate in the Nevada Legislature over a proposed Office of New Americans turned into an argument over immigration policies on Monday.
Nevada lawmakers will tackle affordable housing, recognizing gay marriage, a special office for immigrant affairs and making traffic violations civil offenses and not crimes.
Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a bill that he says “ushers in a new era of transparency that will benefit the industry and the public.”
Facing one of the worst affordable housing shortages in the country, Nevada lawmakers are hoping the 2019 Legislature can mark a turning point.
The loosely affiliated anti-government extremists known commonly as sovereign citizens are the “largest terroristic threat” facing Nevada, according to Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford.
A bill that would make the names of marijuana business owners public in Nevada cleared the state Assembly Tuesday, and now heads to the governor’s desk where it is expected to be signed.
A bill from state Democrats that would roll back changes made to Nevada’s prevailing wage laws by Republicans in 2015 was approved by state Assembly Tuesday on a party-line vote.
After a hectic two weeks that saw lawmakers in Carson City vote and pass hundreds of bills, things will return to a more normal pace as the final one-third of the Nevada Legislature’s session gets underway.
Democratic and Republican leaders from both houses Wednesday gave similar and largely conciliatory assessments of lawmakers’ efforts to pass a combined 180 bills Tuesday to meet a deadline for first house passage — a cutoff that saw just 18 bills fail to advance.
Attorney General Aaron Ford’s former law firm will represent Nevada in its lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, Ford’s office announced Tuesday.
On the day set aside for protecting the environment, Nevada took another step towards reducing its own carbon footprint.
Democratic presidential hopeful and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said Friday in Reno that it’s too early to talk about impeaching President Donald Trump in the wake of the newly released report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Gov. Steve Sisolak — the first Democrat to hold the office in 20 years — reflects on his first 100 days in office.
A bill that would add asthma medication to Nevada’s prescription drug transparency law was approved by the state Senate Thursday.