“When he was campaigning Trump told you he was going to raise tariffs, so he’s doing what he campaigned on,” is a thing people say. Fair enough. When he was campaigning, Trump also promised “Starting ...

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets .

This is the second time Trump has inherited a strong economy. He could have done nothing, except one thing that he's actually quite good at: falsely taking credit.

More than a dozen federal workers at Lake Mead National Recreation Area were among those fired last week as part of the Trump administration’s move to terminate all recent hires across federal agencie...

Nevada has 3,711 HOAs which represent the owners of 623,917 housing units – half of the state’s 1.3 million homes, according to the state. Wielding powers generally reserved for government tribunals, ...

Laws already exist to punish reckless driving, and legislative efforts being considered this session won’t address the underlying conditions that make roads hazardous, argue critics of the proposals

Critics of corporate tax breaks contend they pit states against one another in “a race to the bottom.”

Lombardo wrote that an “abrupt reduction in federal funding would not only disrupt care for those who rely on Medicaid, but would also destabilize public and private healthcare providers, leading to w...

Only two states and the District of Columbia would see a larger portion of Medicaid enrollees lose coverage

The Trump administration halted a federal program that promised Nevada $38 million to build faster, more efficient electric vehicle chargers along the state's highways.

Nevada, perpetually ranked one of the worst states in the nation for mental health services, is the only state that requires applicants for licensure as a psychologist to pass a test that is deemed by...

Only a fraction of Nevadans work for an employer that is required to offer paid family and medical leave, but one state lawmaker is hoping that might change this year.

Clark county officials told state lawmakers Wednesday of numerous occasions of landlords refusing to fix substandard and dangerous living conditions throughout apartment complexes that put the health ...

The only reason Nevada’s Democrats should be reaching across the aisle right now is to grab any Republican who they think can be reasoned with and see if they can shake some damned sense - or guts -  ...

When fans, both casual and committed, place their bets on Super Bowl LIX, many will be focused on proposition bets, such as the distance of Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ first touchdown pas...

Newly confirmed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has directed federal officials to review and possibly revise all national monuments and mineral leasing withdrawals in the U.S., a move critics say could...

Governor Joe Lombardo has a problem, one that runs deeper than just tussling with a Nevada Legislature controlled by Democrats. It’s that his political situation is all wrong for the current moment. I...

For the last seven months, Frankie Perez has been collecting paperwork, scheduling appointments and taking every needed step to return to the Air National Guard.  Perez, 38, had previously served four...

The Nevada state budgeting process began with a $335 million oopsie, and while it may have been resolved, a potentially much larger fiscal crisis looms: the Trump administration.

What do Donald Trump and Joe Lombardo have in common? If you said they both gave speeches within one week of each other in which neither of them mentioned the price of eggs, you’re right. But while bo...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the Interior and Energy Departments — but only one received a blessing from Nevada...

When President Donald Trump first took office eight years ago on a campaign built around anti-immigrant rhetoric, many local organizers thought they could at least count on the state’s Democratic cong...

Gov. Joe Lombardo may have struck a conciliatory tone toward legislative Democrats in his state of the state speech last week, but errors made by his office are bringing early acrimony to the state bu...

President Donald Trump’s indiscriminate release of some 1,600 January 6 insurrection defendants, including those convicted of violent crimes against police, is meeting with mixed reviews from law enfo...

Two Las Vegas home care agencies hired an anti-labor consultant to pressure workers and thwart ongoing attempts to unionize, according to local organizers. SEIU Local 1107 in late November alleged tha...

A mere 48 hours after saying it was “too soon to opine” on the prospect of using the Nevada National Guard to aid the incoming Trump administration in mass deporting immigrants, Gov. Joe Lombardo sign...

Two Las Vegas home care agencies hired an anti-labor consultant to pressure workers and thwart ongoing attempts to unionize, according to local organizers. SEIU Local 1107 in late November alleged tha...

When asked whether he would consider authorizing the Nevada National Guard to aid President-elect Donald Trump in mass deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, Gov. Joe Lombardo said “the devil’...

“With my background in law enforcement, I can attest that reform is long overdue at the FBI,” Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo wrote on Elon Musk’s website last week. “I look forward to hearing Mr. Patel’s id...

The public outcry for harsh punishment in the case of Reba, a bulldog who died of heat stroke days after she was found in a sealed tote behind a business in late July, has Clark County District Attorn...

In the coming years, climate change could force Nevadans from their homes, not just by worsening wildfires and destructive floods — but also by putting insurance coverage out of reach.

Of Nevada’s two U.S. senators and four U.S. House member, Amodei is arguably now the most influential and powerful Nevadan in the U.S. Congress. That makes him the Nevada member of Congress who is bes...

Nevada is projecting $12.4 billion in tax revenue over the next two fiscal years — $412 million, or 3.4%, more than what the state is projected to collect for the current biennium. The Economic Forum,...

Former MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren, who is taking over the financially troubled Resorts World Las Vegas, according to a news release, knew in 2019 of allegations that company executives, including then...

Following some aggressive spikes that accompanied the economy’s emergence from pandemic shutdowns, Southern Nevada rents today are about what they would have been if the pandemic hadn’t happened, a re...

Western states that rely on the Colorado River are in a heated deadlock over how to manage the troubled river, and are doubling down on their own regional plans, despite growing pressure from the fede...

Both parties won the election in Nevada. Donald Trump won the state, and the nation. And, according to him, he also won power to dictate all of humanity’s future, which will forthwith be great. So wat...

Across the West, debates about federal land sales and ownership are coming into the foreground as the new administration prepares to come into office. While some folks would want you to believe that t...

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford says he intends to be a “bulwark” against President-elect Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda and attacks on other marginalized communities.  The Democratic Associa...

More than two-thirds of public land in Nevada is owned by the federal government, giving the U.S. Department of the Interior — the government agency that oversees the nation's natural and cultural res...

Inmates in Nevada prisons are being denied necessary medical care and medications, according to providers and a memo provided to the Current.  “It has come to our attention that there have been instan...

Boosting Nevada’s beleaguered child care and elder care industries makes economic sense for the state, a trio of reports argues, and recommendations on how to do just that have already been laid out f...

Across the West, debates about federal land sales and ownership are coming into the foreground as the new administration prepares to come into office. While some folks would want you to believe that t...

Both parties won the election in Nevada. Donald Trump won the state, and the nation. And, according to him, he also won power to dictate all of humanity’s future, which will forthwith be great. So wat...