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The Nevada State Assembly is currently composed of 27 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Will that split change this year? Maybe. But if it does, it isn’t expected to shift by much. With the exception of a...

Former state legislator Pete Goicoechea was appointed to the Nevada Board of Regents by Gov. Joe Lombardo in December 2024. Now, Goicoechea is hoping voters in District 8 will let him stay on the boar...

From Nevada Current | Policy, politics and commentary

Police responded to a crash on the Las Vegas Strip Friday morning that involved an autonomous Zoox vehicle.

Five Nevada Board of Regents seats are on the ballot this year, but only one is an open seat not featuring an incumbent. That race, for District 5 in Southern Nevada, will bring to the board either a ...

Republican Nevada State Controller Andy Matthews is seeking reelection this November as the state’s independent fiscal watchdog, while his challenger, Democrat Michael MacDougall, hopes a blue wave wi...

Martina Bauhaus, an attorney for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept. for almost two decades, is challenging Judge Jasmin Lilly-Spells, who is wrapping up her first term on the bench.  District Cou...

Both Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and the Democrat hoping to unseat him, Attorney General Aaron Ford, have been playing catch-up on data centers. Their positions have been reactive and unimaginative. ...

More than six months after Rickie Slaughter’s 20-year-old conviction was vacated by a district court judge after finding prosecutors withheld evidence in his case, he is still incarcerated at High Des...

Voters will have the chance to reelect or replace three Clark County School Board District incumbents this November as public schools in Nevada face budget cuts and declining student enrollment. The C...

Republican State Sen. Carrie Buck, who is challenging longtime U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, a Democrat, appears to be distancing herself from President Donald Trump’s agenda. In recent months, Buck has scrub...

Patrick Villa, a mathematics professor at the College of Southern Nevada, will face higher education Regent Jennifer McGrath, the incumbent who was appointed to the seat in 2025, during the upcoming g...

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

Gov. Joe Lombardo in a new executive order is making clear his eagerness to welcome more AI data centers into the state, calling them “the means by which Nevada will meet an unprecedented challenge an...

As a public school educator in the Clark County School District, I’m being told data centers are supposed to be good for my students because they might generate money for schools. I don’t buy it. I ha...

A former member of the state board that regulates armed security guards and private investigators says he resigned from his position over what he calls a lack of regulatory oversight by the agency, th...

Kentucky voters have spoken in one of the most anticipated elections of 2026, choosing a design from Bush Elementary school as the next “I Voted” sticker design.

Allegiant Stadium, Southern Nevada’s $2 billion partially taxpayer-funded football arena, opened just six years ago but is already poised for a facelift, courtesy of taxpayers.   The Las Vegas Stadium...

Concerned that Nevada agencies have relied on artificial intelligence without much oversight, state lawmakers are proposing legislation to establish basic standards on how the technology is used by st...

Kelsey Brickl can’t get a ride from the airport to the Las Vegas Strip. Brickl is a non-ambulatory wheelchair user who cannot ride in a conventional passenger vehicle. Her medically prescribed power w...

Eloping couple Sara and Bladimil Arroyo Montalvo had a surprise wedding ceremony on a Southwest Airlines flight to Las Vegas, planned by the crew, before officially marrying the next day.

Fewer Nevada kindergarteners are receiving life-saving early childhood vaccinations as vaccine exemption rates reach record highs, new federal data shows.

Nevada just filed the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's Colorado River plan that could cut the state's already tiny water alloca...

Nevada could receive as much as $256 million from multibillion dollar multistate settlement over claims that Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is addictive and lacks child safety protections. U...

Nevada’s general election ballot this November will only feature two statewide questions, both returning measures from 2024. Three political action committees attempted to qualify six new proposed con...

Sham Green Party candidates in Arizona funneled $1.2M in public funds to a Nevada shell tied to the GOP machine

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Washoe County voters this November will have the opportunity to weigh in on whether electric vehicle owners are “paying their fair share” toward filling potholes and adding new streetlights. The Regio...

NV Energy's controversial daily demand charge is set to go into effect Jan. 1, and when state lawmakers had a chance to advance a bill to stop it,...

State lawmakers plan to reintroduce legislation that would limit rent increases for seniors after two previous bills were vetoed by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo.  Measures to prevent cryptocurrency sc...

When President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Jon Ponder, a three-time convicted bank robber, at the Republican National Convention in August 2020, Ponder, the founder and CEO of Hope for Prisoners, ...

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen on Tuesday led a group of senators in condemning recent immigration enforcement activity at airports nationwide and calling on Trump administration officials to disclose how ICE ...

Following a county-wide moratorium on any new data center applications, the Nye County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to completely ban data centers in one of the most over-appropriated water ba...

State lawmakers on Tuesday approved a slate of legislative recommendations proposed by a regional rail working group that are supposed to aid the state to potentially develop mass transit, such as lig...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Aaron Ford says as governor he will pause the state’s tax breaks for new data centers to make sure Nevadans are getting their money’s worth.  “Data ...

When given the opportunity to take a public stance on the controversial NV Energy rate scheme set to go into effect next year, seven state lawmakers on Tuesday opted to say nothing at all. Approved by...

Attorneys for Kalshi say Nevada gaming regulators are targeting the prediction market and wasting taxpayer money on behalf of casinos. The state contends Kalshi is dragging its feet when it comes to c...

Sigal Chattah, who has remained atop Nevada’s U.S. Attorney’s office even though her appointment expired a year ago, is illegally holding on to the post, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled M...

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has joined a multistate lawsuit against the federal government over commercial driver license data—a move that is receiving pushback from the Nevada Trucking Associa...

After the Current published the story by Jeniffer Solis Friday on the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada hoping to bury its collective head in the sand on data centers, Aaron Ford issued a statemen...

Clark County is gearing up for the 2027 legislative session with four priorities, but do these proposals reflect what Southern Nevada actually need...

Nevada’s top Colorado River negotiator said lower-basin states are still pressing for adjustments and attempting to forge consensus-based alternatives before federally mandated water cuts are finalize...

Marty O’Donnell has taken the road less traveled to running for Congress. A Republican, O’Donnell has never held elected office. His website, which lists his many accomplishments as a composer of jing...

Nearly two-thirds of Nevada voters would support raising the state’s tobacco tax, according to a new survey commissioned by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. The survey, conducted by ...

When Nevada State Senator and Republican congressional candidate Carrie Buck paraded around Boulder City on the Fourth of July, it was on a truck belonging to a Nevada-based defense contractor who adm...

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada denied an application for a PUCN-led consumer session last week, an unprecedented move advocates say follows a pattern of cutting public input in recent month...