Democratic state lawmakers will propose using federal pandemic stimulus to bolster summer school programs to help students recover from a year of learning lost to pandemic restrictions.
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Time spent on house arrest could count as time served toward inmates’ sentences under a bill before the Legislature for the second session in a row.
After years of debate and legislative failure, Nevada soon could legalize marijuana lounges, providing tourists and locals alike a place to use the drug outside of private residences.
As more legislative staff get COVID-19 vaccinations, lawmakers could allow more people in the legislative building in Carson City starting in April.
Nevada’s state Senate took a step toward ensuring stargazers will continue to enjoy picture-perfect constellations on Monday, passing a bill to recognize “dark sky places” with unobstructed views of galaxies hundreds of thousands of light years away.
The legislation comes amid concerns of a potential torrent of evictions in Nevada caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A group of Nevada lobbyists alleges that pandemic restrictions on the 2021 legislative session amount to constitutional violations.
Nevada Democrats on Monday unveiled a bill that would kill the state’s presidential caucuses in favor of a primary system.
After a slow start to the 2021 Legislature, Gov. Steve Sisolak last week signed a bill to provide $50 million in coronavirus aid to small businesses and nonprofits.
Lawmakers completed work Thursday on one of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s budget priorities with the Senate unanimously approving a measure that provides $50 million to help small businesses and nonprofits hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The days of herding relative strangers into Nevada high school gyms for an all-day democracy exercise peppered with puzzling math equations that can make or break political futures may soon be at an end.
If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could form a new local government in Nevada.
The Nevada Assembly awoke to news that the body’s longtime Sergeant-at-Arms, Robin Bates, died of COVID-19 on Monday.
About one-third of Nevada’s corrections staff have been vaccinated for COVID-19, while just one inmate has received the vaccine, the department said Tuesday.
Only a day after its 81st regular session got underway, the Nevada Legislature gained two freshman Democrats: Fabian Donate and Tracy Marie Brown-May.