Former President Donald Trump tossed his support behind John Lee ahead of the June 11 primary.
Nevada
A senior member of the House Aviation subcommittee, Rep. Dina Titus backed the FAA Reauthorization Act, which will provide funding for general aviation airports.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal owner and majority shareholder of Las Vegas Sands Corp. will be a major backer of the Preserve America super PAC.
Nevada’s 13,000 home care workers could see big increases to minimum wage and reimbursement rates under legislative proposals presented.
Nevada officials, including Gov. Joe Lombardo and Sen. Jacky Rosen, have urged the U.S. Postal Service to reconsider plans to move the mail center to California.
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.
The mothers of two murdered college students and the father of rescued kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday that hundreds of lives would be saved and falsely convicted inmates would be exonerated if the Nevada Legislature approves a bill to require anyone arrested for a felony crime to give a DNA cheek swab to police.
Nevada health officials acknowledged Thursday that proper discharge policies weren’t followed in the case of a mentally ill man who was put on a bus to Sacramento, Calif., after his release from a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital.
A bill to outlaw the private ownership of chimpanzees, lions, bears and other potentially dangerous animals and reptiles was introduced as promised Wednesday by Nevada state Sen. Michael Roberson.
While legislators spoke of their fondness for putting the pedal to the metal, they also noted Wednesday that legislation increasing the speed limit to as much as 85 mph on selected roads in Nevada could have dire consequences for teenage drivers.
