Labor leader D. Taylor resigned as president of the national UNITE HERE but will remain involved with Culinary Local 226 and growing the union's presence in the gaming industry.

U.S. Integrity, a firm headquartered in Henderson, has been at the forefront in monitoring sports wagering activity since 2018. Rep. Dina Titus visited the business to learn about the topic.

After friends encouraged him to run in the 2022 election, he decided it was a way he could expand his commitment to community service. Carter said he will bring a sense of empathy, an ability to connect with people and trustworthiness to the Legislature. 

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.

The legislation prioritized by Native leaders that cleared the lawmaking session include measures that waive fees at Nevada colleges and universities for Native students; prohibit racially discriminatory language or imagery in schools; and provide environmental protection for sacred sites, among others.

Although the demise of a bill to abolish the death penalty attracted widespread attention, another 18 bills met their fate in the Legislature at a Friday deadline for second committee passage.

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.

Out of 249 bills and resolutions introduced by Republican legislators this year, 162 died at the deadline, including 121 bills that never received a committee hearing. Some of the top Republican-backed efforts that failed included election bills repealing expanded mail voting (AB134) and requiring proof of identity before voting (AB137, AB163) and attempts to curb the governor’s emergency powers (AB93, AB373).

Now, tribal leaders and advocates are focusing their energies on priority issues at the Legislature, such as securing tuition-free higher education for Native students and protections for culturally sacred and environmentally sensitive areas.

In this edition: Can initiative petitions be withdrawn at this point? Plus, details on the bill expanding scholarships to undocumented students, bills to watch this week, and claws coming out on the bill banning declawing of cats.

Joe Biden maintains a narrow lead in Nevada over President Donald Trump, but the state’s six electoral votes and the results of many other major congressional, statewide and local races remain up in the air after initial returns on Election Night.

The divided effort to recall Sisolak could complicate the already tenuous path required to qualify a recall against the governor, as voters can sign more than one petition but individual recall efforts are not allowed to combine signature totals.

Three key Nevada lawmakers who have endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s bid for president say they are satisfied with his response to an allegation that he sexually assaulted staffer Tara Reade in 1993.

Candidates must appear in person, pay a filing fee, show identification and sign paperwork to complete the transaction. For seats within a single county, candidates file at that county clerk’s office; for multi-county seats, they file with the Nevada Secretary of State.

By the time Nevada's caucus rolls around, several Democratic presidential candidates will have been campaigning for a full year and some of their staffers on the ground in the Silver State will have been here nearly as long.

Introduced Friday, AB394 is short and straightforward, requiring all Nevada businesses with self-service terminal, kiosk or similar devices owned by an employer pay into the state’s Unemployment Compensation Fund for each such device owned — and in an amount equal to the average contribution paid by the business for its other employees. Funds paid would go to an administrative budget account that administers the unemployment compensation program.