The announcement reignited fears that Sessions — a staunch opponent of legalization — would try to shut down the industry, but marijuana businesses and states have changed nothing.
Colton Lochhead
Carson City bureau chief
Email: clochhead@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-4638
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.
Car-summoning watches, voice-responsive computers, artificial intelligence and robo-deliveries were pipe dreams when people like Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval were growing up watching television shows like “Knight Rider,” “The Jetsons.”
Vice President Mike Pence visited Las Vegas Thursday for the grand opening of AFwerX, a new “innovation hub” poised to address the needs of the Air Force.
Vice President Mike Pence will be in Las Vegas on Thursday to attend an Air Force event with Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, a source with knowledge confirmed to the Review-Journal.
State Sen. Majority Leader Aaron Ford on Monday named state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson as the Senate Democratic Caucus’ campaign chair for Nevada’s 2018 election cycle, the caucus announced.
Nevada is sure to see plenty of national attention as this year’s election cycle ramps up.
A two-term state Senator and progressive Democrat is officially running for Congress in hopes of replacing disgraced Nevada Rep. Ruben Kihuen.
A Carson City judge threw out an anti-sanctuary city ballot initiative that was proposed by Republican Senate Leader Michael Roberson.
Nevada’s nascent recreational marijuana industry could be in danger with the rescinding of a federal memo seen as the sole protector for state-regulated pot markets.
One Las Vegas marijuana company may have found the perfect way to tap into the community’s giving nature.
Democrat Chris Giunchigliani has raised over $1 million in her bid to become Nevada’s next governor, her campaign announced Wednesday.
Three people formally filed to run for the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday, the first day judicial candidates were allowed to file.
Jeff Iverson, clean and sober since a 2006 drug arrest, founded Freedom House Sober Living in 2010 as a way to help others find their path to addiction recovery.
A man died after a drive-by shooting in the east Las Vegas Valley Sunday night, according to Las Vegas police.