Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Noreen DeMonte and civil attorney Danielle Tarmu are hoping to win an open seat in Clark County District Court Department 28. Judge Ron Israel, who was first elected to ...

Clark County District Judge Jerry Wiese is seeking a fourth term on the bench. Wiese first won election in 2010. He was reelected in 2014 and was not challenged in 2020.  “I’ve been a judge for 16 yea...

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...

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...

The Retail Association of Nevada, which represents stores and restaurants in Nevada, is endorsing Democrat Attorney General Aaron Ford for governor, a turnaround from the 2022 election when it endorse...

Former Family Court Judge Paul Gaudet is hoping to regain the Dept. N seat he lost in 2024 to now-Judge Kerri Maxey, who defeated Gaudet by more than seven percentage points.  Gaudet says the reason M...

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...

Clark County Judge Jessica K. Peterson is hoping to retain her seat in District Court Dept. 8 after a bumpy first term. Earlier this year, the Nevada Supreme Court found Peterson violated the First Am...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a win for Nevada’s regulated sports betting industry Friday when a three-judge panel ruled that sports bets accepted by Kalshi are likely not swaps as dete...

A spate of multi-million dollar sanctions levied against Las Vegas casino companies in the last year and a half has spurred a “sea change” on the Strip, former Nevada U.S. Attorney Greg Brower, who re...

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, ...

Jon Ponder, a three-time bank robber who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, was arrested Tuesday by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police on 20 charges, including sexual assault. Other charges against Po...

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...

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...

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...

The Nevada Council on Problem Gambling confirms it intends to formally sever ties this month with the National Council on Problem Gambling over the latter’s partnership with Kalshi, a prediction marke...

Jon Ponder, a three-time convicted bank robber who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, is under investigation by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department – a scenario that raises questions abo...

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo says there’s nothing he can do about affordability and warns claims to the contrary are “bullshit.” The governor, a Republican, faces a reelection challenge in November from D...

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and his Democratic challenger for the state’s top spot, Attorney General Aaron Ford, won’t say whether Nevada taxpayers should subsidize a proposed data center approved on...

Attorney General Aaron Ford, criticized by Gov. Joe Lombardo and one of the governor’s legislative allies for acting on only 40% of Medicaid fraud referrals sent to his office, is taking on twice the ...

Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui is asking the legislative auditor to investigate the state agency that regulates security guards “following serious allegations that the Board has been violating Nevada l...

The proposed merger of two of the largest film studios in Hollywood would harm the industry and consumers, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford and attorneys gener...

A number of Nevada Republican candidates, including Gov. Joe Lombardo, are declining to say where they stand on President Donald Trump’s pivot to a legislative effort to impose restrictions on birthri...

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo has the support of a group of Nevada Democrats in his race against Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, the governor’s campaign announced Monday.  The race is among th...

An undocumented Las Vegas man who’s been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for months without knowing the charges against him will be released on bail, an immigration judge ruled Wednesd...

The state board that regulates security guards is throwing up roadblocks to advancement for guards seeking to become armed, based on a policy that doesn’t appear in law and was never formally adopted,...

The state agency that licenses security guards has been letting armed guards carry shotguns and rifles for years, even though Nevada law has no provision allowing the practice, state legislators learn...

The state agency that licenses security guards has been letting armed guards carry shotguns and rifles for years, even though Nevada law has no provision allowing the practice, state legislators learn...

When NV Energy asked the Nevada Public Utilities Commission to delay implementation of a controversial peak demand charge, which was scheduled to take effect April 1 in Southern Nevada, the utility ma...

A new policy employed Tuesday by the Public Utilities Commission to keep the public waiting outdoors during consumer sessions is intended to thwart public comment on contentious utility issues, say th...

Attorney General Aaron Ford, who refused to debate his opponent in the Democratic primary campaign for governor, is calling on Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo to take part in at least three debates in th...

When former Henderson Police Chief Hollie Chadwick went to bed on primary election night, it appeared her quest to unseat Mayor Michelle Romero was for naught. Romero, according to election officials,...

The federal agency that regulates prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket is proposing rulemaking designed to determine, among other things, just what qualifies as “gaming.”  Prediction marke...

Democrats who prevailed in statewide primary races took a victory lap Wednesday in Las Vegas at the Nevada Democratic Party headquarters, promising a general election campaign focused on linking Repub...

From Nevada Current | Policy, politics and commentary

A law that allows homeowner associations in Nevada to levy unlimited fines for violations that threaten the health, safety and welfare of communities is unnecessary and places homeowners in the perilo...

Gov. Joe Lombardo is advocating the proposed expansion of a northern Nevada pipeline that would quadruple the flow of natural gas to the region to power data centers. In a February letter to the Feder...

Northern Nevada, a relative bit player on the state’s modern-day energy stage until now, is poised to topple its southern counterpart from its leading role, according to NV Energy’s Integrated Resourc...

The prediction platform that takes bets on everything from who will win the Stanley Cup to when Taylor Swift will tie the knot is joining forces with the National Council on Problem Gambling, which se...

The legal battle between utility regulators and Attorney General Aaron Ford’s Bureau of Consumer Protection is likely headed for the Nevada Supreme Court following Clark County Judge Mary Kay Holthus’...

The Democratic primary race for Nevada’s Congressional District 2 began with 11 candidates. Eight are still standing. The district, which has been red since its creation following the 1980 census, enc...

Henderson Councilwoman Carrie Cox, who was indicted on a felony charge last year for allegedly hiding behind a curtain at City Hall and recording her colleague in a conversation with constituents, is ...

Henderson’s former police chief, a former real estate executive from California, a local salesman, and an interior designer are hoping to extend the race for Henderson mayor into the general election....

Former Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy, real estate agent Don Salazar, and businessman Mark Sprinkle are hoping to win the Republican race for public administrator, the office which manages estate...

Three Democrats, Deputy Attorney General Stephanie Itkin-Goodman, Pastor M.J. Ivy, and real estate agent Edgar Velazquez, are vying to represent the party in the general election for public administra...

Henderson Justice Court is adding a fourth department to meet the demands of its growing population. Attorneys Michael Allmon, John Cory, Harvey Gruber, and Trent Richards are competing to be the firs...

The Nevada Gaming Commission voted unanimously Thursday to include former Las Vegas high-roller and illegal bookie Matthew Bowyer on the state’s list of Excluded Persons, or so-called Black Book.  Bow...

A mandatory settlement conference Monday in Las Vegas federal court failed to produce an agreement between MGM Grand and high roller Dwight Manley, according to an attorney for Manley. The gambler all...

Family Court Judge Mary Perry is hoping to win reelection after agreeing in 2024 to be publicly censured for her actions on the bench. In the primary race, she’ll face attorney Jennifer Isso, an embat...

The Nevada Gaming Control Board and the Nevada Resort Association on Thursday defended the state’s right to regulate gambling within its boundaries during a hearing before a three-judge panel of the N...