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Fewer than a dozen states have a program that collects a small deposit on packaged drinks, refunding it when people recycle ...

Health care and pharmaceutical groups gave Nevada legislators more than $1.7 million during the 2024 election cycle, an ...

According to four people with knowledge of the situation, discussions are taking place behind the scenes about addressing NV Energy's liability in wildfires started by its equipment.

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A recently published opinion piece warns readers about the dangers of reining in self-serving licensing boards in Nevada. The truth is that this reform is badly needed in the state. Indeed, in the ...

April 1 has come and gone, and from here on out, it’s all downhill — literally and figuratively — for Nevada’s snowpack. Snowpacks are Mother Nature’s reservoirs, natural repositories that slowly ...

In this edition of Behind the Bar, film tax credit proposal expands its scope and a backlog of business investigations at the secretary of state’s office. As Friday's committee deadline came and went, ...

In philosophy, Occam’s razor suggests that when faced with multiple competing ideas to answer a question, the simplest one is preferable. And in dealing with the now-infamous GPS tracker case, the ...

As a certified public accountant (CPA) who serves the public and upholds Nevada’s financial integrity, I feel compelled to warn Nevadans about SB78, now before our Legislature in Carson City. As the ...