Paul Boger

The 83rd regular session of the Nevada Legislature is officially underway in Carson City, with lawmakers sworn in surrounded by friends and family, today.

As crews keep fighting fires in Southern California, as relief efforts begin and the many billions of dollars in damage is assessed, the question has come up: Could this happen in Las Vegas?

For many years, local leaders have discussed the need to access more land around Las Vegas and Reno. Development of those areas, they say, is the solution to Nevada's affordable housing crisis.

Graduate assistants at Nevada’s universities and research institutions have voted in favor of unionizing. The student workers delivered letters notifying administrators at UNLV, UNR, and the Desert Research Institute of their intent to organize last week.

As the nation focuses on the race for president, many are looking to Nevada as the key to controlling or losing power in Congress.

Though almost 300,000 Nevadans have already voted, one of the questions for the remaining 2 million eligible voters is whether photo IDs should be required to vote.

Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit Las Vegas this weekend on the heels of a major economics speech. This comes about a week after former President Donald Trump visited Las Vegas.

It’s been argued that Clark County’s board of commissioners is more important than the state legislature, even the governor’s office. 

Today, 13 solar arrays in Nevada cover about 20,000 acres. The Bureau of Land Management has a new plan to open 31 million acres of Western land for potential solar — and 12 million of those are in Nevada.

To make matters worse, the news came a few weeks ago that Las Vegas would once again have cut back on its use of the Colorado River, even though it already has the smallest share of water out of seven states that use the river.