Nevada lawmakers are making another attempt to decriminalize more minor traffic offenses with a bill that looks to have a better chance of passage this year than similar efforts in prior years.
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Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson announced Thursday that he’s fighting prostate cancer, and underwent outpatient surgery this week.
Democratic leaders in the Nevada Assembly unveiled legislation Wednesday that would make universal mail-in-voting permanent in Nevada, except for people who decide to vote in person.
A bill that would ban so-called ghost guns drew plenty of testimony on both sides in Carson City on Wednesday.
Lawmakers Tuesday heard a proposal to give the attorney general authority to investigate police departments for civil rights violations.
A pair of proposals in the Nevada Legislature would add new protections for the swamp cedars in the Spring Valley area of White Pine County, a site that the Shoshone tribes consider sacred.
More than 50 bills were introduced Monday as lawmakers waived a deadline for them to submit bills for consideration.
State and local agencies are pushing bills in the Nevada Legislature that would curtail the public’s access to governmental records and workings across the state.
The leader of the Assembly Democrats on Friday unveiled a proposal that could see college athletes in Nevada earning pay and signing endorsement deals.
Voters will likely get the chance to decide if they want to raise gaming and sales taxes to send more than $1 billion in additional annual funding to education after the Legislature punted on the pair of proposals Friday.
Senate Bill 153 would put Nevada on a path to observe either daylight saving time or standard time year round, avoiding the “archaic” semiannual clock switching.
A bill that would see Nevada prison inmates earn at least minimum wage for work behind bars drew unanimous and bipartisan support in a Senate committee Wednesday.
State officials and workers represented by a union authorized under a 2019 collective bargaining law announced a tentative contract agreement on Tuesday for four of 11 affected employee groups.
An upcoming March 15 deadline for lawmakers to introduce their bills might quicken matters in Carson City this week as the Legislature reaches the one-third mark of its 120-day session.
Landlords opposed a bill that would automatically seal eviction records for nonpayment of rent during the ongoing pandemic and require landlords to give some tenants longer notice for a no-cause eviction.