A citizens group filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the state’s new gun control red flag law, which empowers authorities to seize firearms from people deemed a threat.
Bill Dentzer
Review-Journal Capital Bureau
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Based in Reno, Bill Dentzer covers government and politics and related state news out of the Review-Journal’s capital bureau in Carson City. He joined the RJ in October 2018 after similar assignments at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah and the Idaho Statesman in Boise. He earlier covered state and local government in his home state of New York, where he graduated from Hamilton College.
Nevada’s 1970s shield law protecting journalists from having to reveal sources applies to digital as well as legacy media, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday.
A Carson City judge has ruled legislative Democrats cannot rely on attorneys with the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
Some of Nevada’s 34 occupational licensing boards have hired lawyers and lobbyists with user fee money, some of whom occasionally advocate against the interests of the state.
A two-day court hearing on a controversial and embattled proposal to pump groundwater from rural eastern Nevada to the Las Vegas Valley gets underway Tuesday in Ely.
Peter Long, who replaces Deonne Contine, has headed the state human resources division since 2016 and previously served 12 years as division deputy.
Three Nevada Board of Dental Examiners members resigned Thursday and two staffers were terminated after a Review-Journal investigation into the board.
Susan Hillygus, an Alzheimer’s patient taken from her Reno care facility in August by her son has died, potentially complicating the criminal case pending against him and an alleged accomplice.
Frank LaPena who spent decades in prison after being convicted of being the mastermind behind the murder of a Caesars Palace executive’s wife, was granted a pardon by the state Pardons Board on Wednesday.
Nevada’s Pharmacy Board collected fees from drug wholesalers, but only erratically conducted the checks, Gov. Steve Sisolak reported Tuesday.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Nevada is not immune from a lawsuit filed by corrections officers over pay because it moved a state lawsuit into federal court.
Counting itemized individual contributions — named donors with individual contributions of $200 or more — Joe Biden led not only fellow Democrats but also incumbent President Donald Trump..
Gov. Steve Sisolak has announced immediate action to tighten regulation of Nevada’s marijuana industry in response to federal charges that foreign nationals sought to enter the industry by buying political influence.
A federal indictment charges four men with crimes including making illegal foreign campaign donations to two Nevada candidates in 2018, as well as trying to buy a marijuana license in the state.
The state Board of Examiners approved $50 million for a health and sciences building for the College of Southern Nevada’s Henderson campus.
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