Attorneys for the state of Nevada are seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit filed in December that says votes in the 2020 election were “diluted” by “many” ballots allegedly cast by non-citizens.
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Rory Appleton joined the Review-Journal in May 2019 as a politics reporter after five years with The Fresno Bee, where he most recently covered politics. Born and raised in Fresno, he graduated with a degree in print journalism from Fresno State University before joining his hometown paper, where his work earned six California News Publishers Association top awards in a two-year span.
Republicans targeted Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Wednesday as part of a series of small national ads seeking to tie Democrats to teachers unions and to schools not reopening during the COVID pandemic.
Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom will run for the chairmanship of the Nevada State Democratic Party, he announced Monday on Twitter.
The days of herding relative strangers into Nevada high school gyms for an all-day democracy exercise peppered with puzzling math equations that can make or break political futures may soon be at an end.
Nye County Commissioner Leo Blundo will not face state charges stemming from a Nov. 26 arrest, he announced at a news conference held in Pahrump on Thursday.
Nevada State Democratic Party Chairman William McCurdy II will not seek re-election next month, the party announced Wednesday.
While the state has made progress in gun violence legislation, the authors note Nevada’s gun death rate and gun suicide rate remain 40 and 60 percent higher than the national average.
Transgender service members in Nevada welcomed President Joe Biden’s reversal Monday of a Trump-era ban on their service in the military.
Many of Nevada’s elected officials and their staff members qualify for priority COVID-19 vaccinations under state or federal standards, but the process remains muddled.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto took on the thankless job of recruiting Democrats to run for Senate in 2019, and her success has given the Nevadan a boost in Senate leadership.
The presence of accessibility devices on the CES 2021 showroom floor has grown in recent years and is expected to play a large role in the show’s first-ever digital showcase.
Newly elected Nevada Assemblywoman Annie Black shared a lengthy account on Friday of her participation in the protest that ultimately led to a deadly riot and occupation of the U.S. Capitol.
Many Nevada leaders and political fixtures publicly condemned a mob’s storming of the U.S. Capitol building during Congress’ official review of the Electoral College’s votes.
Gov. Steve Sisolak appointed Heather Korbulic, executive director of Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, as his office’s policy director for the upcoming legislative session.
Noteworthy deaths of Nevada newsmakers include the shocking passing of a Las Vegas business luminary, one of the state’s best known developers and a longtime federal judge.
