Welcome to our first edition of Behind the Bar for the 83rd legislative session. The newsletter will have a slightly ...

Gov. Joe Lombardo raised more than $3.2 million in 2024 and has more than $5.5 million in cash on hand as the Republican ...

It marks the latest roadblock for states in a running feud with the U.S. government over who should control huge swaths of ...

Last Monday, new trustees Emily Stevens, Lydia Dominguez, Tameka Henry and Lorena Biassotti took their seats on the Clark ...

Policy changes pertaining to undocumented immigrants — be they congressional or executive — have the potential to upend ...

Because the Vegas Loop is privately operated and receives no federal funding, it is exempt from the kinds of exhaustive ...

Florence Drake Elementary School in Sparks is focused on building strong relationships with the school community that have ...

Stories at The Nevada Independent wouldn’t be complete without photographs that accompany them. We’re lucky to work with photojournalists Jeff Scheid, David Calvert and Daniel Clark, who have brought ...

With the next legislative session on the horizon, we will start to hear a lot of ideas about the actions we could take to improve our public education system. It’s understandable why we want to ...

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said it will soon require hotels, vacation rental platforms and live event promoters to disclose any fees up front when they list prices. The FTC said consumers ...

Even in more conservative parts of Northern Nevada, performative political bovine excrement doesn’t make friends and it doesn’t win elections. Marxists. Liberals. Redshirts. Progressives backed by the ...

Technically, the 119th Congress does not start until 2025 — but you’d be forgiven for not realizing that after this week. President-elect Donald Trump is making last-minute demands of Republicans in ...