Two new commissioners to the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority — Henderson City Councilman Dan Shaw and Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Barlow — have missed numerous meetings in their first months on the job.
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State auditors said the Nevada Taxicab Authority has fully implemented some of the recommendations in a scathing report issued nearly two years ago that alleged Clark County’s taxi passengers paid excessive fees.
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., is the newest target of a seven-figure ad campaign by a liberal group urging Republicans to vote against the GOP tax package.
The state has requested $11.3 million in federal funding to continue the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers more than 27,500 Nevada kids, while Congress decides if it will renew funding for the decades-old program.
The Justice Department is suing AT&T to stop its $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, setting the stage for an epic legal battle with the telecom giant.
Nebraska regulators approved a route for TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL pipeline through the state on Monday, lifting the last big regulatory obstacle for the long-delayed project that President Donald Trump wants built.
A second woman has accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of inappropriate touching, saying Monday that he put his hand on her bottom as they posed for a picture at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010 — after he had begun his career in the Senate.
Marshawn Lynch sat for the U.S. anthem on Sunday and rose for the Mexico one. On Monday, President Donald Trump scolded him for it.
Two Department of Education funding errors that recently came to light cost big districts like Clark County millions of dollars and contributed to the budget deficits they encountered this year.
As lawmakers debate how to make health insurance affordable and widely available, undocumented immigrants continue to inhabit a netherworld where health care is often available only in emergency rooms and nonprofit clinics.
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday will vote to issue up to $15 million in bonds to help Touro University expand.
President Donald Trump says he should have left three UCLA basketball players accused of shoplifting in China in jail. Trump’s tweet Sunday comes after the father of player LiAngelo Ball minimized Trump’s involvement in winning the players’ release in comments to ESPN.
During the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump spoke as if acts of diplomacy in themselves devalued America’s standing in the world. Now he seems to think that his willingness to fight for “America First” has changed the equation.
Information regarding a new bipartisan think tank at UNLV, to be chaired by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Speaker of the House John Boehner, has been almost nonexistent. But progress is being made, Reid said Thursday.
Even photographic evidence of sexual assault isn’t enough to get Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and want-to-be senator Rep. Jacky Rosen to demand a fellow Democrat leave the Senate.