It will take tens of millions of dollars to repair and improve the dam over the next 10 years, officials estimate.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign said it had enough signatures to appear on Nevada’s ballot, but the petition didn’t name a vice president, as state law requires.
A nonprofit will have grants terminated after state officials say it failed to pay over $400,000 to vendors despite the state reimbursing it for those payments.
Nevada’s Democrats and Republicans don’t see eye-to-eye on how to make housing more affordable.
A lawsuit by an environmental group seeks to force the Bureau of Land Management to develop plans to preserve Gold Butte and Basin and Range national monuments.
CARSON CITY — Nevadans would be able to support public education by “toking up ” if a bill introduced Monday becomes law.
CARSON CITY — A bill that would allow the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue “driver privilege cards” to undocumented immigrants was introduced with bipartisan support in the state Senate on Monday.
Today will be the first day in the 43-day-old 2013 legislative session when lawmakers work late into the evening.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill designed to provide a fairer distribution of sales, cigarette, liquor and other state taxes to cities and counties.
CARSON CITY — Declaring a “brass knuckles” approach to johns, Assemblyman John Hambrick introduced a bill Friday calling for life sentences for people who solicit minor prostitutes.
CARSON CITY — The Legislature’s legal counsel on Friday asked the Nevada Supreme Court for more time to respond to troubled lawmaker Steven Brooks’ demand to serve in the Legislature, saying the petition filed on his behalf “is lacking in cogent legal argument.”
CARSON CITY — The man who killed four people in a IHOP restaurant in 2011 was a “paranoid schizophrenic” and “gun nut” who wrote a high school paper on gun safety, Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong told legislators Friday.
Secretary of State Ross Miller told lawmakers Thursday that his plan to include a photo of each registered voter in new electronic poll books would improve ballot access and not disenfranchise voters.
The work of an independent counsel hired by the Assembly to investigate whether troubled lawmaker Steven Brooks should be removed from office will cost an estimated $45,000, documents released Thursday show.
The Nevada State Education Association’s initiative petition to raise $800 million for public education through a 2 percent business margins tax is headed to the 2014 statewide ballot after no action was taken by legislators Thursday.