Nevada voters are being asked whether they want to approve a change to the state constitution to allow the state’s energy market to be opened to competition, giving consumers a choice in where they buy their power.
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The Las Vegas Monorail Company will seek Clark County commissioners’ permission this week to extend the monorail’s route from the MGM Grand to Mandalay Bay.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s letter states his office has determined that FBI Director James Comey’s actions “may violate the Hatch Act.”
The FBI has obtained a warrant to begin reviewing newly discovered emails that may be relevant to the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Nevada staff for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump arrived early Sunday to find the exterior of the campaign office and a vehicle parked outside had been hit with eggs.
Intense debates about a Nevada ballot measure that would expand background checks for firearms buyers has shifted to nuanced questions about what it would require and how it is written.
Presence of Question 2 on Nevada ballot resurrects debate over whether pot use leads to harder drugs like cocaine, heroin or opioids.
At a rally Saturday morning, Vice President Joe Biden encouraged union workers and others to get out the vote for not only the Democratic presidential nominees, but also down-ballot candidates for U.S. Senate and House seats.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI, campaigned Saturday in Southern Nevada at separate events for Danny Tarkanian and U.S. Rep. Cresent Hardy.
With some rural tallies from Friday still uncounted, Democrats hold a lead of about 28,500 votes over Republicans, according to the Nevada secretary of state’s website. Democrats held a lead of 28,652 after the first week in 2012.
Even as they continue to employ field drug tests to secure arrests and gain convictions, neither the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department nor the Clark County district attorney’s office has informed local judges of the long-standing knowledge of their unreliability.
Education is a key issue for two political novices vying for the Assembly District 5 seat, and while they agree on many things — both hold a middle ground on recreational marijuana and background checks for gun purchases — they have different thoughts on how to solve the state’s public school system, which falls last in the nation on education ranking.
The race for Nevada Assembly District 9 is a rematch of the 2014 election, but this time Republican David Gardner is running from the perch of incumbency. He faces Democratic challenger Steve Yeager.
The three people running in Assembly District 8 agree that breaking up the Clark County School District could positively affect student achievement, but differ on other ways to make strides in education.
Two candidates new to campaigns for public office are seeking to fill the shoes of former North Las Vegas state lawmaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick in Assembly District 1.
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