Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson announced his resignation Tuesday amid federal charges accusing him of misusing campaign funds for personal use.
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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.
Nearly two years after it began, the push to recall a pair of Democratic state senators continued Monday as attorneys argued before the Nevada Supreme Court.
Democrats in Nevada are again pushing to join an interstate compact to let the national popular vote determine the winner of the presidency.
Public employee groups and government transparency advocates sparred Friday over a proposed law that would shield retired public employees’ names from the public record.
Officials from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources said that the bills would add clarity to Nevada’s murky water laws and allow the state to better allocate water rights in the driest state of the nation.
A Northern Nevada lawmaker wants to make sure that homeowner associations in the state can’t completely restrict residents from owning a dog, cat or even a goldfish.
Lawmakers are hoping a new bill will alleviate some confusion caused by a 2017 law that requires school volunteers to be fingerprinted and get background checks.
Few things are as synonymous with Las Vegas and the Silver State as neon.
Assembly Bill 226, sponsored by Assemblyman Skip Daly, D-Reno, would prohibit requiring a person to have a microchip or other permanent identification marker implanted inside of them.
Former Nevada Department of Taxation Director Deonne Contine has been appointed to lead the state’s Department of Administration, Gov. Steve Sisolak’s office announced Thursday.
The push to change the way Nevada employers handle the drug and prospective employees was met with significant resistance from the business community.
Assaulting a security guard in Nevada could carry the same punishment as assaulting a police officer, under a proposed law change being considered in the state Legislature.
Riding a bicycle or roller skating around the park without a helmet? That would be a $15 fine under a law proposed in the Nevada Legislature.
For all the flare that the second week of the Nevada Legislature brought, the third week appears primed for a more traditional tone.
The second week of the 2019 Nevada Legislature resembled something more akin to a rehashing of the 2016 campaign for the original ballot measure.