Nevada Department of Agriculture Director J.J. Goicoechea talks with The Indy about Northern Nevada's Virginia Range and why former assemblyman Jim Wheeler was hired to oversee its horses.

The targets of the proposed policy are the transgender students of the Douglas County School District — or cisgender children who express their birth gender nontraditionally. Think boys in kilts, girls in pants, that sort of thing ...

“It’s very important the rural counties of our great state to be united with one message going forward,” said Gray at the time. “We must stand together as one to face the abuses of our civil liberties which have taken place and stop them from going any further.”

With the primary election dust starting to settle, legislative race results began to shed light on which candidates will be in the spotlight come November.

Candidates in about a third of state legislative primaries have publicly cast doubt on the election process or expressed their support for the “Big Lie.”

Even with more than half of their members not returning to the Legislature, Assembly Republicans are feeling confident heading toward the 2023 session that they can capture more seats.

Though Democrats are expected to maintain control of both houses, Republicans are hoping to prevent a two-thirds supermajority (14 seats) that could have implications for tax increases.

Nevada’s congressional incumbents led their respective fields in fundraising during the first quarter of a contentious midterm election year, even as several Republican challengers made major strides.

The end of filing means campaign season is officially underway, as candidates — including more than 60 who filed in Clark County on Friday — prepare for the June 14 primary election and Nov. 8 general election.

The proposed maps would make all three of the congressional districts that include at least part of Clark County tilt toward Democrats. Each encompasses an area that Biden won by between 6 and 8 percentage points in the 2020 election. 

The state capital came alive Saturday as hot air balloons towered overhead, residents filled the sidewalks and emergency vehicles, marching bands, floats, horses and politicians paraded down Carson Street.

Assemblywoman Jill Tolles (R-Reno) will not run for re-election to her Northern Nevada seat in 2022, making her the ninth of 16 Republican Assembly members who have announced or are mulling not returning to their positions for the 2023 session.

In an interview with The Nevada Independent, Lombardo said that, though “all the chips fall on me” as head administrator at Metro, there also “absolutely” remains some legislative culpability for those increases. 

With state Sen. Joe Hardy (R-Boulder City) termed out, two Republican Assembly members are eyeing his seat, with one of them already openly campaigning.

Democrats controlled both houses of the Legislature during the 2021 session, and hundreds of high-profile Democratic measures sailed through the Assembly and Senate while a vast majority of Republican-backed measures failed to make much headway in the legislative process.

From permanent expanded mail voting to the state public health option, the 2021 Legislature saw no shortage of headline-grabbing partisan disagreements — but a look at actual vote totals reveals that the vast majority of bills were passed with at least some bipartisan buy-in.

In the last installment of our legislative "Follow the Money" series for 2021, we break down more than $2.8 million in legislative campaign spending from more than a dozen major industries.

Lawmakers voted out measures including a tenant’s rights bill limiting application fees, a bill requiring eggs sold in Nevada be cage-free and a measure lowering penalties for youth caught possessing marijuana.

Settelmeyer’s Senate District 17 covers several western and northern Nevada rural counties, and is one of the safest Republican districts in the state — meaning the winner of the primary is essentially assured a Senate seat. Settelmeyer won the 2018 election with nearly 72 percent of the vote over his Democratic opponent.

Despite expectations that floor sessions on Monday — the 43rd day of the session and deadline for individual legislator bill introductions — would stretch late into the night to accommodate numerous bills, legislative leaders suspended rules and allowed the Legislative Counsel Bureau’s legal division to keep working throughout the week.