Government

Nevada Democrats disappointed by Lombardo vetoes but promise to keep working

Lawmakers delivered a clear message at a town hall Wednesday night hosted by the advocacy group Make the Road Nevada: The fight isn’t over.

Nevada senators vote to confirm political rival for VA job

Sam Brown was confirmed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate as one of the three under secretaries for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Rosen and ...

In Las Vegas, Republicans take victory lap on ‘no tax on tips’ policy; Democrats decry its details

“No Tax on Tips” took center stage Friday during a visit from the House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee to Las Vegas to promote ...

Nevada assemblymember playing role in Mexico City summit

Nevada Assemblymember Cecelia González, D-Las Vegas, was in Mexico City this week to promote a new binational summit in September featuring state-level representatives and Mexican ...

Nevada hospitals brace for impact of Trump’s budget bill

Nevada hospitals are bracing for a financial crisis as President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending legislation threatens to cut millions in critical health care funding ....

Nevada's Young Democrats on mission to be seen and heard

Young Dems of America is the country’s largest youth-driven partisan political organization, boasting a membership of more than 20,000 young people nationally.

Race is on in Nevada to install solar panels before end of tax credit

With President Donald Trump signing the reconciliation bill July 4, the 30% credit on residential solar previously scheduled to start sunsetting in 2033 will come ...

Rosen: Heat in Nevada rising to the level of major disaster

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., visited a cooling station last summer in Las Vegas on a scorching Southern Nevada day with temperatures exceeding 110 degrees. ...

Nevada's Titus fights back on gambling hit in Trump tax bill

The change, a late addition to the Senate version the House of Representatives concurred with Thursday, reduces the amount gamblers can deduct from their winnings ...

Las Vegas Culinary official: Trump mixes signals on deporting migrant farm, hotel laborers

Officials with Culinary Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 in Las Vegas see the changing position as Trump tries to thread the needle ...

Las Vegas residents decry surge in homeless encampments after tunnel sweep

As Clark County’s homelessness problem grows, officials from the county and other local agencies are increasing their efforts to remove encampments and get homeless individuals ...

In Las Vegas, The Center ready to step up as feds cut funding for LGBTQ youth suicide hotline

The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada is bracing for an anticipated surge in youths seeking mental health support after the Trump administration last month eliminated ...

'Big Beautiful Bill' jeopardizes 100,000 Nevadans’ care, congresswoman says

Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., painted a dark picture Tuesday morning should the Republican-led “Big Beautiful Bill” get through Congress and be signed into law: more ...

Legislative green light signals go time for campus improvements at Nevada universities

The university is using part of a $6.2 million state appropriation to continue planning and design for a new Lee Business School building at Maryland ...

Titus continues fight against sale of public lands in Congress

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., discovered an unexpected ally in Montana’s Ryan Zinke last month, calling the Republican representative “a big Western cowboy” while acknowledging ...

Lombardo veto stirs anger among those touched by deadly UNLV campus shooting

Students and staff affected by the 2023 on-campus shooting at UNLV that killed three professors and injured another are criticizing Gov. Joe Lombardo’s veto last ...

Real fathers lead with honor and conscience

Today is the day we are supposed to celebrate the men who helped bring us into this world. They helped nurture us, taught us to ...

Las Vegas youths take to the streets against ICE raids in schools

The fear is that enforcement efforts could be coming to Nevada schools, especially after Gov. Joe Lombardo earlier this month vetoed Assembly Bill 217, which ...

Researchers stand tall as Trump puts thumb on scales of science

In a time when silence often masquerades as prudence, more than 300 scientists, researchers and public servants, from across all 27 National Institutes of Health ...

Nevada Republican Amodei comes out against Trump's proposed PBS, NPR cuts

U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., is joining forces with his Public Broadcasting Caucus co-chair Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., to oppose President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.1 ...