Respected lawmaker was creator of the Assembly’s informal “Cowboy Hall of Fame,” a whimsical but sought-after honor among his colleagues.
Politics and Government
Incumbent Assemblywoman Jill Dickman, R-Sparks, picked up two votes, but it wasn’t enough to erase victory by Democrat Skip Daly.
Las Vegas gun shops are looking for guidance after Nevada voters approved a ballot question extending firearm background check requirements.
Clark County Commission chairman Steve Sisolak is considering a run for governor of Nevada in 2018. If Sisolak does launch a bid, he’ll have an unprecedented head start on campaign fundraising.
Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday recognized his defeat in the conservative nomination contest for the 2017 presidential election.
A dearth of hospitals and medical professionals, an increasingly strained emergency care network and sharply escalating costs are threatening the quality of life in many of the state’s small towns and communities.
Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly won Nevada’s Latino vote by a two-to-one margin over Donald Trump, but that margin was significantly tighter than anyone expected and trailed the support President Barack Obama garnered from Latinos in 2012.
President-elect Donald Trump demanded an apology from the cast of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” a day after an actor in the hit show delivered a pointed message about diversity to his running mate who was in attendance.
The Nevada Army National Guard’s “Wildhorse” 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry Regiment — the same one that returned from a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan in 2010 — is expanding to become part of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team in Boise, Idaho.
President-elect Donald Trump and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney set aside their long-simmering rivalry on Saturday and had talks likely to feed speculation that Romney could be a candidate to be Trump’s secretary of state.
The charter takeover issue has turned into a finger-pointing battle between the Clark County School District and the newly-formed Achievement School District.
It would take more than a decade and cost at least $30 billion before the shuttered underground dump site at Yucca Mountain could begin accepting shipments of highly radioactive waste, according to experts on the controversial project.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Friday was the latest high-profile person to attend the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” but he became the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s New Markets Tax Credits program encourages investment in traditionally underserved communities by providing developers with a tax credit when they invest in low-income communities. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman called the tax credits “the energizer we have been waiting for.”
President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting.