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A Nevada legislative subcommittee Saturday recommended elimination of longevity pay for veteran state workers to save $6.8 million during the biennium.Longevity payments, which range form $150 a year for workers with ...

Those underage who call for emergency medical help if they or a friend are intoxicated and need assistance would be exempt from prosecution on alcohol charges under a bill heard by an Assembly committee Wednesday....

Supporters of a bill allowing Nevada college campuses to ban tobacco received blow-back Wednesday from Republicans on an Assembly panel who suggested the move is hypocritical when tobacco taxes help fund higher education....

Today is Denim Day. Get the blue jeans out and help raise awareness for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Thanks to Advocates to End Domestic Violence, custom, handmade denim coffee sleeves will be placed on the cups of coffee purchased throughout the day at local Carson City coffee houses: Comma Coffee, Carson Coffee, San Rafael Coffee Company, the Roasting House in Virginia City, and the Pony Espresso in Dayton. For more information on AEDM go here.

WEDNESDAY:

• Denim Day for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
• Customer Appreciation Month: free glazed donut with medium drink at Dunkin Donuts

On Tuesday, April 28, southbound lanes of I-580 will be reduced for a Nevada Department of Transportation project to repair a digital freeway message sign.

Work will take place from approximately 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. During that time, southbound travel lanes will be reduced to one lane near the Bowers Mansion area, directly prior to the exit 50, Alternate 395/Bowers Mansion Road. Northbound lanes will not be impacted.

A Republican-backed bill that would make sweeping changes to Nevada gun laws received a generally favorable reception Thursday in an Assembly committee after it was amended and passed by the state Senate....

A state Senate committee Friday passed a bill to keep the doors of the Nevada Supreme Court open after the chief justice said it was on the brink of going broke because of fewer traffic tickets and a decline in court assessments....

A Republican-backed bill that would significantly change the Nevada Public Employees' Retirement System got a closer review Wednesday from a legislative money committee, as rooms nearly full of opponents looked on. The Assembly Ways and Means Committee combed ......

Nevada’s top community college and high school students in Career and Technical Education will compete Thursday at Western Nevada College in the welding and automotive mechanics divisions of the SkillsUSA state competition.

A legislative money committee on Wednesday signed off on major Department of Motor Vehicles budgets, including funding for 75 new positions to staff all windows in the urban Las Vegas offices to reduce long wait times....

Panel vets bill requiring parental notification for abortionDoctors would be required to notify a girl’s parents before performing an abortion on a minor if a bill discussed by Nevada lawmakers becomes law. The Assemb...

Panel OKs bill allowing governments to not work with unionsA Nevada committee has passed two Republican-backed bills affecting public employee retirement payouts and allowing local governments to opt out of collecti...

With almost no discussion, the Assembly Natural Resources, Mining and Agriculture Committee capitulated on the bill seeking to claim ownership of all federal lands in Nevada.The panel headed by Dr. Robin Titus, R-Smit...

An Assembly committee has passed a bill that would designate more Nevada elected offices as nonpartisan. The Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee voted 6-4 on Thursday to approve AB320, which was sp...

A Nevada committee has killed a proposed constitutional amendment that would require any tax increase on the ballot to win a two-thirds majority ......

Nevada lawmakers have passed a gutted version of a public lands bill that was supported by rancher Cliven Bundy but was widely considered unconstitutional. The Assembly Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining Committee passed AB408 on Thursday, with a handful of ......

A Nevada Senate committee has passed a bill authorizing special license plates showing support for the 2nd Amendment. The Senate Transportation Committee voted unanimously Thursday to pass SB229, which is sponsored by Republican Sen. Don Gustavson. It now heads for ......

With Nevada withering in a fourth year of drought, Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday announced formation of a panel of experts to explore a situation creating widespread problems across the nation's most arid state.

The Nevada Drought Forum — composed of state resource agency officials, local water providers, scientists and other experts — is expected to release a list of suggested ways to respond to extended drought by the end of the year.

A Nevada Assembly panel has unanimously approved a bill extending the state’s statute of limitations on sexual assault cases. The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted to approve AB212 on Wednesday. The proposal now move...

Since the February release of results from a student survey regarding sexual conduct and safety, a number of efforts to strengthen a supportive campus climate, one with zero tolerance for sexual assault, sexual misconduct and other life-damaging actions, have been put in place at the University of Nevada, Reno.

In March, the University launched a 24-hour Sexual Assault/Sexual Misconduct Hotline, allowing students, faculty and staff to report incidents that occur on or off campus. The caller may remain anonymous if he/she chooses. The hotline phone number is 775-784-1030.

In what unions are slamming as an Armageddon for workers, legislative Republicans today vetted a bill that would weaken collective bargaining for police, firefighters, teachers and other local government employees. A panel of state lawmakers ......

A bill that would expand legal protections for justifiable homicides involving occupied vehicles, as well as making it illegal for anyone convicted of domestic violence, even a misdemeanor offense, to own a gun, won unanimous approval from a Nevada Senate committee on Friday....

A Tahoe Talks Brown Bag Lunch Series recently launched offers a monthly forum for people to discuss and learn more about ways to strengthen communities, make towns safer for bicyclists and pedestrians, and help protect Lake Tahoe’s amazing natural resources.

Lunches are held monthly at ≈. They cover topics ranging from transportation to the economy and the environment, and offer a comfortable, low-key setting for people to discuss and learn about those issues. The events are free to the public.

A bill seeking to change the public employees retirement system for future hires by switching to a mostly defined-contribution plan was passed out of a Nevada Assembly committee on Wednesday on a split vote with no recommendation....

County assessors would no longer be required to publish annual property tax rolls in the local newspaper under a Nevada legislative proposal that would save taxpayers statewide hundreds of thousands of dollars at the expense of newspapers....

The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles is facing a perfect storm of new responsibilities and program changes that is generating a huge jump in customers and growing wait times at its offices, a panel of state lawmakers was told Tuesday....

The Douglas County Board of Commissioners Thursday denied a special use permit to build a proposed solar energy project in the Carson Valley.
Commissioners voted 4-1 to deny the appeal.

North Las Vegas’ city manager tried and failed to oust the Municipal Court’s two judges from an interview panel for new bailiffs last week....

An Assembly bill seeking to change the public employees retirement system in Nevada for future hires by switching to a mostly defined-contribution plan generated a lengthy debate Tuesday with government employee groups opposed and some business groups supportive....

A controversial bill that would extend a bond rollover program to address pressing school construction needs failed to win a committee vote Tuesday that would have sent it to the full Assembly without a recommendation....