The neighborhood built between 1964 and 1966 has been described as a “Black Summerlin” in its heyday, but in the 1980s, the hilly community overlooking the Las Vegas Strip became unsafe and threatened from subsidence — sinking of the ground because of groundwater overuse — and has remained that way ever since.

The Governor’s Office for Economic Development (GOED) is investing in entrepreneurship this session with bills such as AB41, which would create the Nevada Innovation Account, and AB77, Assemblyman Steve Yeager’s (D-Las Vegas) proposal to create an Office of Entrepreneurship within GOED.

State leaders are seeking to establish a wide-ranging homelessness assistance and prevention fund to build out supportive services in Southern Nevada through a project that could leverage as much as $200 million.

Both Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) voted to pass the debt limit deal and avoid a catastrophic default.

Discussions became heated between Sen. Dina Neal and Assemblywoman Clara Thomas during a Friday morning hearing in the Assembly Government Affairs Committee over certain sections of a bill affecting the city they both represent.

A bipartisan panel of lawmakers rejected a draft regulation to protect workers from heat illness after the state and business groups committed to working on a revised version.

With fewer than four days until the Legislature’s 120-day session ends June 5, lawmakers are finalizing bills, amendments and making last-minute deals in an attempt to get their legislation and the state budget across the finish line.

Geno Martini, a lifelong Sparks resident and the city’s longest-serving mayor, died Thursday night in his home surrounded by family after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 77.

The deal is a product of a more than two-decade-long fight between the politically powerful trial lawyers and Nevada doctors — and is a significant step down from other proposed caps of $2 million, $2.5 million and even no cap at all that were previously discussed this session.

SB307 outlines new regulations for the use of solitary confinement that are more stringent and individualized than a similar 2017 bill and mandates annual NDOC reports.

Despite Lombardo’s threats to veto the state budget if his legislative priorities were not addressed, he signed three of the five major bills used to fund the state government through Thursday afternoon.

The bill (AB522) includes the first major pay boosts for state workers in years, including raises ranging from 10 percent to 13 percent in the upcoming fiscal year beginning in June, and 4 percent raises the following year.

On Wednesday, lawmakers heard and voted to advance a bill that would appropriate $64.5 million to replace the Owyhee Combined School on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in northeastern Nevada.

After spending the morning in the building meeting with lawmakers, Wahlberg — a recent Las Vegas transplant who has been filming in Southern Nevada — spoke to reporters highlighting his support for expanding the tax credit program.

With just days left in the legislative session, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo joined Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar in a bill signing détente. 

The agreement follows days of heated negotiations after Lombardo threatened multiple times to veto the state’s budget bills as his legislative priorities remained stalled.

The House of Representatives passed a debt limit deal Wednesday night, with Nevada’s four members voting for the agreement negotiated between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

“It's not our goal to veto that budget,” Gov. Joe Lombardo’s Chief of Staff Ben Kieckhefer told The Nevada Independent. “Our goal is to get the governor's priorities moving.”

Oakland A’s owner John Fisher and team president Dave Kaval spent much of Wednesday in the Nevada Legislative Building.

The Nevada GOP filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state over a 2021 law dropping its presidential caucus and establishing a presidential primary in the state.