Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday ordered flags lowered to half-staff to recognize the victims of last week’s shooting at a Maryland newspaper that left five dead.
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After several months of watching their party’s voter registration lead over Republicans dwindle, Democrats have bounced back with renewed vigor.
In a move that signals National Republicans’ sharp focus on Nevada, the National Republican Congressional Committee added GOP candidates Danny Tarkanian and Cresent Hardy to the final round of its “Young Guns” program.
Recreational marijuana sales became legal in Nevada on July 1, 2017. In the year that’s passed, cash has flowed, businesses have grown and no major controversies have surfaced.
A nonprofit backed by the Koch network is launching a $1.5 million ad campaign in the governors race to support Nevada Republican governor candidate Adam Laxalt.
As protesters rallied outside a Reno casino Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a speech to a conference of school resource officers to publicly defend the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt signed onto a court filing last year in a California lawsuit to support keeping the identities of the donors to one of his biggest political backers secret.
Massachusetts Senator and potential 2020 Democratic candidate for president Elizabeth Warren is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Nevada State Democratic Party Convention on Saturday.
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty this week in a fraudulent voter petition scheme, the Nevada attorney general’s office announced in Friday.
Nevada’s fledgling marijuana industry has taken off significantly faster than state officials anticipated. Now state regulators are scrambling to catch up.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be in Reno on Monday to deliver a speech to a national school safety conference, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Recently minted Democratic gubernatorial nominee Steve Sisolak wants three cracks at debating Republican candidate and Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt before the general election.
Nevada congressional representatives as well as candidates running for key offices weighed in on the issue of children of undocumented immigrants being separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” crackdown on immigration.
A group that wants at least 50 percent of Nevada’s energy to come from renewable energy sources said Monday that it has more than twice the needed signatures to get its initiative on the November ballot.
President Donald Trump will be in Las Vegas Saturday for a two-pronged stump that includes giving the keynote speech at the state Republican convention and a fundraiser with U.S. Sen. Dean Heller.
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