Politics

Save Red Rock calls for action against rising truck traffic on Southern Nevada scenic byway

Officials with Save Red Rock, the advocacy group working to protect the safety and sustainability of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, have noticed what ...

Lawmakers back bills to bring more doctors, dentists to Nevada

U.S.Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., has reintroduced legislation that would permit doctors and dentists in underserved areas to defer their student loan payments interest free until ...

Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico are just a presidential power grab

During his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Donald Trump falsely linked tariffs against Canada and Mexico to ...

'Chaos and cruelty': Nevada Democrats counter Trump boasts of success

President Donald Trump, standing before federal lawmakers for his address to the joint session of Congress, said no action he could take would satisfy Democrats.

Nevada lawmakers present bill to explore public rail systems in Clark County

Transit labor unions, environmental organizations and citizens across Nevada shared their support Tuesday night for Assembly Bill 256, which aims to ...

Lake Mead layoffs highlight strain on workers and the National Park Service

Riley Rackliffe stared at the ceiling of his home and weighed the pros and cons of the federal government’s severance package offer. The government offered ...

Nevada governor urges feds to protect Medicaid funding amid concerns of deep cuts

Gov. Joe Lombardo is urging Congress and the Trump administration to refrain from slashing Medicaid funding, warning that cuts to essential programs alone “will not ...

Youth defender advocates for court discretion in juvenile cases

Katherine Maher, a youth defender with the Washoe County public defender’s office, on Tuesday presented two hypothetical cases to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary ...

Metro sheriff announces commitment to reducing officer-involved shootings, traffic fatalities in Las Vegas

Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill is pledging to cut the number of officer-involved shootings in half this year, focusing on training and deescalation, after seeing ...

CCSD braces for effects of Trump tariffs in repair, construction of school facilities

Tariffs on imported goods are the known unknown in the Clark County School District’s offices of construction and facilities management. Those are the offices responsible ...

Las Vegas isn’t a sanctuary city but legislation in Congress could treat it as one

There is no one definition of what a “sanctuary city” for undocumented immigrants is, though Las Vegas has rarely been considered one. Then-Mayor Carolyn Goodman ...

Cowardice of Senate GOP creates environment for resurgence of measles

Twenty-five years ago, the World Health Organization and U.S. officials celebrated a WHO declaration that a highly successful ...

Proposed legislation sparks debate over accountability by Nevada election workers

A proposal being considered in the Nevada Legislature that calls for election workers to be charged with a felony for failing to perform tasks in ...

Sen. Rosen of Nevada calls on Trump officials to lower egg costs

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., is calling on U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to spend the initial weeks in her new role exhausting efforts ...

Nevada legislation aims to hold food-delivery apps accountable for restaurant impersonators

Christina Martin has been on a crusade against fraudulent business practices on food-delivery apps since April 2024 when she found out her Las Vegas pizza ...

Nevada lawmakers want answers on how potential GOP Medicaid cuts could impact residents

Republicans in the U.S. House are advancing a budget resolution that calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, aiming to trim $2 trillion from “mandatory ...

Las Vegas councilwoman aims to reinvigorate community

Las Vegas City Councilwoman Shondra Summers-Armstrong grew up in the Richmond neighborhood in California’s Bay Area. In some ways ...

‘High anxiety’ is not just a movie!

MAAA. That stands for Make America Anxious Again. It has its roots in the MAGA movement. I assume everyone knows what that is ...

Nevada joins lawsuit challenging establishment of Elon Musk's DOGE

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has joined another lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s administration, this time arguing his establishment of the ...

Lombardo signs bill intended to lower egg prices in Nevada

Gov. Joe Lombardo signed legislation today authorizing the Nevada Department of Agriculture to temporarily suspend the state’s ban on caged eggs when supply is strained ...