If Nevada was forced to run solely on it’s rainy day funds starting Monday, the state government would be out of money and shuttered by lunchtime Thursday, according to a study of states’ financial stability released last week.
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.
Sisolak, the chairman of the Clark County Commission, said it was “truly an honor” to receive Obama’s support in the race.
Two prominent Nevada candidates were in their 20s when they got speeding tickets that required court appearances. Neither candidate showed up in court, but the consequences played out differently for each man.
A new set of education regulations approved Thursday has Republicans worried that it could mean things like the Pledge of Allegiance might not be taught to K-12 students in Nevada.
Sometimes, fancy new voting machines and layers upon layers of encryption aren’t enough to fend of cybersecurity threats to American elections.
Nevada dispensaries sold nearly $425 million worth of recreational marijuana and pulled in nearly $70 million in tax revenue in the state’s first full year of sales, officials announced Tuesday.
When it comes to Question 3, the politically charged energy choice measure on the ballot in Nevada, a political line has been drawn over a single term: Deregulation.
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jacky Rosen wrapped up a Northern Nevada campaign swing Friday by touring a Reno Planned Parenthood facility and rallying campaign staffers and volunteers in Sparks.
At Adam Laxalt’s fourth annual Basque Fry, Republican speakers had a clear message for the conservative crowd gathered Saturday in Northern Nevada: If Democrats win this fall, they’ll turn the Silver State into California.
After draining much of his campaign war chest during a testy primary race, Democratic governor nominee Steve Sisolak appears ready to spend once again.
Nevada’s largest casino industry trade group is throwing its support behind the effort to break up NV Energy’s electricity monopoly.
Despite speculation that outgoing Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval would sit out the 2018 election, the governor is backing a ballot measure that aims to bolster victim‘s rights.
A group of Republican state lawmakers have come to the defense of Nevada attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt in the controversy surrounding a rural sheriff accused of rape and sexual misconduct.
Nevada’s first full year of legal adult-use marijuana sales is set to exceed more than $400 million in sales. But the dispensaries, producers and marijuana growers in the state still have no stable place for all that cash.
Snubbing the fellow Republican running to replace him, Gov. Brian Sandoval says he has no plans to publicly back any candidate for Nevada’s next governor.