April 11, 2025 Today marks the Nevada Legislature’s first committee house passage deadline, which typically marks the largest round of bill deaths in the 120-day legislative session. By the time lawmakers wrap up today, any bills not voted out of their first committee or granted an exemption from legislative deadlines end up in the legislative […]
April 4, 2025 Governor Joe Lombardo sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner, following their recent announcement of the Joint Task Force on Federal Land for Housing. In his letter, Governor Lombardo praised the launch of the unprecedented task force, while requesting representation […]
March 28, 2025 The Trump administration informed Nevada food banks that it was suspending emergency food assistance programs poised to deliver more than 1.3 million pounds of food, at a time when food bank usage in the state remains higher than pre-pandemic levels. That amount of food could provide more than 1 million meals to […]
January 31, 2025 Nevada State Budgets hang in the balance with the possible Federal funding freeze. A federal judge stepped in and temporarily blocked the president’s order, but that didn’t stop the chaos and confusion that followed across the country and right here in Nevada. This all comes as several agencies were in front of […]
January 10, 2025 In the wake of the devastating California wildfires, Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto plans to reintroduce a proposal in Congress to better fund fire departments, interagency coordination and recovery efforts. In a landmark decision for property rights, a Washoe County judge has ruled that Nevada law enforcement cannot exploit a federal […]
January 3, 2025 Happy New Year!! As Nevadans ring in the new year with fireworks and festivities, new laws passed by the Legislature a year and a half prior will take effect, from a diaper tax exemption to a wage requirement for employees with disabilities. And well before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a […]
December 27, 2024 The Bureau of Land Management has launched a last minute review of the proposed Rock Valley Solar Project in the Amargosa Valley in Nye County, which would produce and store enough renewable energy to power about 360,000 homes in Nevada and California. Federal land managers will determine whether one of the largest […]
November 28, 2024 Governor Joe Lombardo is vowing to make some serious changes within several state agencies this week. The Clark County School District soon will have a monitor checking its actions, Gov. Joe Lombardo and Nevada Superintendent of Public Instruction Jhone Ebert announced on Monday. After receiving its largest amount of funding of $4 […]
November 15, 2024 Voters in Nevada had the chance to fix signature errors with their mail ballots by Tuesday, Nov. 12. However, as of Wednesday about 9,000 ballots throughout Nevada did not have signatures verified and were not counted, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office. Nevada’s tourism economy could hit some “bumps in the […]
October 18, 2024 This week in Nevada, GOP candidate Sam Brown spent Thursday’s Nevada Senate debate taking shots at Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen as he still faces a polling deficit with Election Day creeping nearer. The Las Vegas City Council delayed a vote on a proposal to strengthen its camping ban in line with a recent Supreme […]