One of the biggest fundraising hauls came from Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, a PAC seeking to enshrine abortion access in the Nevada Constitution via ballot initiative. The group recorded raising $1.8 million, driven primarily by $1 million from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Think Big America.

We travel back in time and space to the faraway land of Washington state, circa 2016. There, a divided Democratic Party held both a presidential caucus and a primary — so what can that experience tell Nevada? Plus, we take a look at another poll that shows flagging support for President Joe Biden. 

The 56-year-old represented Senate District 18 in Las Vegas for a decade before resigning Oct. 26 and accepting the governor’s appointment to lead the Governor’s Office of Workforce Innovation (GOWINN) effective last Wednesday. Hammond’s tenure in the Senate was set to end in 2024, and was prohibited from running again due to term limits.

First elected to the Senate in 2012, Hammond was also elected to one term in the Assembly in 2010. In that time, Hammond twice served on the Republican Senate leadership team, including a stint as the co-majority whip in 2015 and the co-minority whip in 2019.

Legislators approved a slate of new election regulations ahead of the state's presidential primaries in February. Five candidates have made appointments with the secretary of state’s office to file for the race.

There’s just seven days until government funding lapses, and with House Republicans yet to pass a spending bill, federal agencies are preparing to close. The last government shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — lasted 35 days in 2018 and 2019.

While the so-called crisis was averted, advocates say the cycle may be repeated next year unless state leaders work to improve the school choice program, including by allocating more funding to the program. 

Since 2011, just 15 percent of legislators were more likely to vote toward the middle of the ideological spectrum in a given session than toward the farthest left or right.

Republican legislators were more likely to buck their party, with 415 out of nearly 15,000 votes this year in support of bills that the majority of their caucus opposed.

Gov. Joe Lombardo has begun issuing vetoes in earnest ahead of the end of the state’s 120-day legislative session, striking down measures ranging from gun control bills to mental health care reforms.

Algunas propuestas se relegaron como parte de acuerdos de alto nivel entre el gobernador y los líderes legislativos, y otros simplemente se consideraron demasiado complicados o costosos para avanzar en la sesión de 120 días.

Nevada’s legislative session has reached the end … kind of.

Some were left behind as part of high-level deals between the governor and legislative leaders, and others were simply considered too fraught or too expensive to advance in the 120-day session.

After Senate Republicans blocked passage of the bill Monday night, a termed-out Sen. Scott Hammond (R-Las Vegas) reversed course Tuesday supporting the measure across the legislative finish line and sending it to Lombardo’s desk less than one day after the regular session ended.

A bill that’s awaiting a final vote from the state Senate would set a definite date by which students must reach the age of 5 in order to enroll in kindergarten instead of the moving date in the law now.

After serving in the 2015 and 2021 sessions, O'Neill is spending the 2023 session navigating a challenging landscape as leader of the Assembly Republican Caucus.

State lawmakers introduced a long-in-the-works bill Thursday that would significantly expand a film tax credit program aimed at bringing Hollywood to Las Vegas.

In the continued battle over rent control in Nevada, Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui (D-Las Vegas) presented AB289 to the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee on Monday, which passed out of the Assembly with bipartisan support last month after heavy amendments.

The bill would ensure towns only use sirens for emergencies and comes in response to the city of Minden continuing to sound a siren, even though lawmakers passed a prohibition of sundown sirens during the 2021 legislative session. 

This week’s Indy Environment looks at legislation that seeks to require employers provide water, shade and hydration breaks for outdoor and indoor workers exposed to extreme heat.