The Nevada Assembly approved a ban on private prisons in Nevada on a party line vote Wednesday evening.
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Colton Lochhead covers pot and politics for the Review-Journal, where he started as an intern covering crime and breaking news in 2012. Raised in Las Vegas, the life-long desert rat graduated from Bonanza High School before earning his journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Environmental groups have dropped their opposition to a bill they had originally blasted as way for the state to green-light a controversial plan to pipe water from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas after the bill was amended last week.
Nevada lawmakers in the Legislature are considering a bill that would require some employers to offer a week’s worth of paid time off to workers.
Nearly 300,000 Nevadans could see higher pay if the Democrats’ push for a higher minimum wage goes through, Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson said Wednesday.
Worried about the number of third graders who could be held back after the next school year, some Nevada Democrats are looking to make big changes to the state’s Ready by Grade 3 law.
For Democrats to win in 2020, they’ll need a stronger message than “Not Trump,” Massachusetts Sen. and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said at a campaign rally in Northern Nevada on Saturday.
Bills dealing with surprise medical billing, criminal justice reform and labor laws in Nevada are just some of what’s on tap for lawmakers as they gear up for the second half of the 2019 session.
Assembly Bill 411 would overhaul Nevada’s traffic laws by taking jail time off the table for a slew of common minor violations — speeding and broken taillights — and obscure ones.
Two years after a push for more transparency in the costs of insulin for diabetes treatment, state Sen. Yvanna Cancela is hoping to shed even more light on prescription drug prices and the health care system in Nevada
As legal retail cannabis prepares to turn 2 years old in the Silver State, the College of Southern Nevada is hoping it can help develop the next generation of workers for the nascent industry.
Sandra Jauregui wanted to forget being shot at during the Oct. 1 mass murder, but the Parkland school shooting instead prompted her to do something to stop gun violence.
A bill that would restrict local law enforcement from cooperating in some cases with federal immigration authorities but stops short of enacting so-called sanctuary state laws is pleasing neither side of the immigration debate.
Who are the players behind Nevada’s booming legal marijuana industry that saw more than $400 million in sales in its first year? We could soon find out under a new amendment to a Senate bill approved by lawmakers Thursday.
The Assembly Committee on Government Affairs will hear the bill on Friday. While the museum would be recognized as a state museum under the legislation, it would be privately funded, a supporter said.
Assembly Bill 456 would gradually increase Nevada’s minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2024, although some progressive activists were hoping for more.