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The Oakland Athletics are asking Nevada for $380 million for a 30,000-seat, $1.5 billion retractable roof stadium on the Las Vegas Strip. A bill introduced Friday in the Nevada Legislature details the long-awaited financing plan.
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Purple Politics Nevada is KUNR’s weekly show about the 2023 Nevada Legislative Session. In this week’s episode, host Lucia Starbuck explores racist covenants in housing deeds in Washoe County and a short history lesson on why they exist. State lawmakers are considering a bill to allow discriminatory language to be removed.
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Nevada lawmakers are considering a bill to potentially cancel fines for some misdemeanors committed by people experiencing homelessness. KUNR’s Lucia Starbuck spoke with the ACLU of Nevada’s policy manager Lily Baran to learn more.
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One bill to address fentanyl-related overdoses in Nevada failed to advance Friday, but a second bill survived with significant changes.
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Nevada’s governor is threatening to veto the state’s budget. What does that mean?
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Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo denied the gun safety bills shortly before a planned press conference by advocates.
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The Nevada Legislature passed a major deadline on Friday. Bills needed to be passed out of committee, otherwise, they’re dead, but the governor’s legislation didn’t have the same deadline. KUNR’s Lucia Starbuck spoke with Sondra Cosgrove, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada, to learn what happens next.
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The Nevada Legislature passed a major deadline on Friday, where all bills must have passed out of their first committee. Those that didn’t are dead for the most part. Now, they’ll need to be passed by both houses with identical language and signed or vetoed by Nevada’s Republican governor to become law.
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Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto spoke about the state’s clean energy initiatives during her address at the state Legislature on Tuesday evening in Carson City.
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Nevada’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen spoke about lowering the costs of prescription drugs during her address to the State Legislature in Carson City on Monday evening.