Michael Lyle

Republicans are hoping a candidate with a storied last name in Nevada politics can oust a Democratic incumbent in a state Senate district that heavily leans blue. Democratic State Sen. Dallas Harris, an attorney who has served the district since 2018, is facing off against attorney Lori Rogich, a Republican, for Senate District 11. The […]

All three of Nevada’s Democratic incumbents in the U.S. House of Representatives are cash heavy compared to their Republican challengers, and election forecasts for House races foresee no signs of a political upset in Nevada’s congressional races. Democrats have a credible chance to flip control of the House, where Republicans hold a slim majority, but […]

Two Democratic state lawmakers will face off against each other for the nonpartisan City of Las Vegas Ward 5 council seat.  Assemblywoman Shondra Summers-Armstrong currently represents Assembly District 6 while Cameron C.H. Miller previously served in Assembly District 7 but resigned in October 2023 after his family moved from the district.  The council seat opened […]

Amid the pandemic in 2020, Mary Ellen Ballard and her husband Hurbert downsized from their Las Vegas home to live in a camper trailer in order to stay near their children in Oregon during the lockdown.  By the time they returned to Southern Nevada, the 80-year-olds, who live on fixed incomes, found they were priced […]

Former President Donald Trump’s running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance, blamed undocumented immigrants for Nevada’s housing crisis and encouraged supporters to vote early in a campaign stop in Las Vegas on Wednesday.  With less than two weeks before Election Day, Vance spoke to a crowd at Treasure Island before heading to Reno.  Polls have indicated […]

As votes have yet to be tabulated, former President Donald Trump already declared he had a sizable lead in Nevada and claimed he was ahead in states “never typically in play” including New Hampshire at a campaign stop in Southern Nevada Thursday night.    Trump spoke at the UNLV Thomas & Mack Center a day after […]

The Associated Press projected Nevada Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei won his reelection bid Tuesday. The rest of the state’s U.S. House delgation – a trio of Democrats – were still in races that had yet to be called, and one of them led her Republican challenger by less than a couple percentage points. In […]

As homeless rates in Southern Nevada have skyrocketed, both Clark County and the City of Las Vegas have recently taken more punitive measures to criminalize the unhoused for sleeping in public.  Clark County voted 6-1 last week to prohibit unhoused folks from camping and sleeping in a public right-of-way. Under the ordinance, which goes into […]

The number of unhoused people in Nye County, the third largest rural county in the state by population, was slightly lower this year than last, but remains the highest among non-urban Nevada. Meanwhile, Lyon County – the state’s most populous rural county – and Churchill County both saw nearly double the number of people experiencing […]

Nevada Democratic U.S. Rep. Susie Lee along with 51 other House Democrats joined Republicans in an unsuccessful attempt to give the incoming Trump Administration unchecked power to strip nonprofits of their tax exempt status. The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act failed to get the two-thirds vote needed to pass the House […]