The high court approved a ballot initiative to enshrine the right to "reproductive freedom" in the state Constitution. But the group behind that effort is still moving forward with a narrower version instead.

The second ballot measure is a failsafe in case the first one doesn’t move forward.

Republican voters deserve far better than a sorry collection of MAGA opportunists who have tried to turn the party into an extension of the former president’s campaign operations.

Reproductive rights are trying to place a question on the 2024 ballot to enshrine those rights in Nevada's constitution. A Carson City judge ruled the question was too broad, but an appeal is expected in the Nevada Supreme Court

The Coalition for Parents and Children argues a petition from abortion rights groups is too broad and would illegally cost taxpayer funds.

Gilbert would never attend a school board meeting or otherwise exercise a direct personal touch upon the legal affairs of a school district unless he thought doing so might advance his political and fiscal ambitions.

Judge Jessica Peterson’s order, issued Thursday, states that Nevada Republican Party Executive Director Alida Benson failed to clear the burden of proof for the anti-SLAPP motion, a law that allows defendants in defamation cases to avoid extensive litigation in cases where a lawsuit might otherwise silence their speech.

Before and since the passage of Nevada's sex trafficking law, which she spearheaded, Cortez Masto has cast herself as a crusader on the issue of sex trafficking.

As debates have raged over which state board has the legal authority to mandate vaccines for college students and when that process might actually take place, some institutions have sought to ramp up localized efforts to boost vaccination rates. 

Nevada is, once again, healing, just as it did after the tourism industry was rocked by 9/11, the Great Recession and 1 October. That healing, though, has only ever been surface deep. The question now is whether history will repeat itself.

Churches that hold 2,500 people or less are allowed to convene 250 people or 50 percent of their capacity, whichever is less — a setup that means many churches are still well under the attendance levels they normally have.

The report goes into painstaking detail about the trials individual claimants have had trying to navigate a glitchy web portal launched three months ago to field the crush of PUA claims. It lays out 41 unique issues claimants have run into — problems categorized by the crowd-sourced, detective-like work of large Facebook groups made of PUA claimants.

Gov. Steve Sisolak has appointed former lawmaker and legal aid center leader Barbara Buckley to lead a “strike force” focused on improving the processing of Nevada’s backlogged unemployment claims.

“The court continues to be concerned that the progress, however, under the circumstances that people find themselves in here in Nevada, are moving too slowly,” Breslow said. “Whether that concern rises to the level that the court finds that [the state is] either abusing its discretion, or otherwise failing to comply with its obligations under the law — we're not there yet.”

The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation offered the updates as part of a videoconference press briefing on Friday. It comes on the heels of debate in court about the role fraud — and the state’s efforts to fight it — have in slowing down the processing of legitimate claims.

Officials say people generally learn about the situation when they receive a letter from the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) about an application they never filed, or their employer gets similar correspondence.

Breslow called for another court hearing at 10 a.m. on July 30, saying he wants to see progress from DETR on one common issue claimants tens of thousands of claimants have — being stuck in limbo because it’s undetermined which program should be paying out their benefits.

Guinasso and his team, who were assigned the project 10 days ago, said they reviewed 3,500 documents from DETR’s Employment Security Division, reviewed 775 emails sent directly from claimants, spent hours interviewing state employees and catalogued concerns of thousands of claimants on a spreadsheet, including those posted in a Facebook group geared toward claimants.

It amounts to tremendous pressure on the relatively small staff answering phones and making life-altering financial determinations for people who, after making hundreds of calls a day to no avail and fearing the loss of their cars and homes, have reached a breaking point. Cooper’s heard grown men cry on the other end of the phone. Sometimes she joins in.

Breslow said he was convinced that DETR staff was “working their level best to get through the crushing backlog of claims in these extraordinary circumstances. But I don’t want good. I don’t want great. I want heroic.” He added that “the status quo right now is unacceptable.”