Posted: 2:50 PM President Barack Obama is rallying support for his health care law, saying the law has already provided an array of benefits and will now give those without insurance a chance to obtain it.
Updated: 1:55 PM The Obama administration says now-discredited talking points about the deadly attacks in Libya are being taken out of context - as are emails seeking to revise the talking points.
Posted: 2:55 PM A proposal to allow the collection of DNA from people arrested on felony charges in Nevada is receiving intense scrutiny from the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
Updated: 10:34 AM Secretary of State Ross Miller says extending Nevada's voter registration deadline to the Friday before elections will allow more people to participate in the process.
Posted: 8:27 AM Former New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici says he's disappointed to hear that he's persona non grata to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid because Domenici fathered a son out of wedlock in the 1970s with a daughter of then-Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada.
Posted: 11:55 PM The Reno City Council has given final approval to an ordinance to rezone a 104 acre parcel of land known as UNR Farms.
Posted: 11:54 PM City of Reno employees who are not members of bargaining units will be getting a one-percent pay cut.
Updated: 2:04 PM A long-awaited bill revamping Nevada's live entertainment tax has been introduced by Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick.
Updated: 2:15 PM Some Nevada lawmakers say medical marijuana patients shouldn't be deemed impaired when driving just because they have small amounts of marijuana in their system.
Updated: 10:23 AM House Republicans on Wednesday renewed charges that the Obama administration is covering up information about last year's deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, drawing an angry rebuke from Democrats who accused the GOP of politicizing the issue at a jam-packed hearing.
Updated: 8:02 AM State lawmakers are ushering through a bill that authorizes a memorial for Nevada's fallen soldiers on the Capitol complex in Carson City.
Updated: 6:26 PM Reno City Councilmembers would be elected by voters in individual wards, or sections of the city, under a bill being debated. Currently, the mayor and at-large councilmember are elected city-wide. Councilmembers who represent wards must win primary elections in those wards, then win a city-wide general election. The bill would make the general election ward-only.
Updated: 3:43 PM A cameo by actor Nicolas Cage added pizazz to a hearing on a bill proposing tax incentives to entice filmmakers to produce in the Silver State.
Posted: 12:16 PM The lawyer for a former Nevada lawmaker charged in a car chase and a police confrontation is asking that his client go through a mental health court program.
Updated: 9:40 AM Bills imposing or expanding cooling-off periods for former legislators and public officers received chilly receptions from the Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections.
Posted: 4:15 PM The Senate has passed a bill that could end tax-free shopping on the Internet for many shoppers.
Updated: 1:46 PM A late amendment to a bill mandating universal background checks for gun purchases in Nevada has given the effort renewed life in the state Legislature.
Posted: 12:19 PM A former Nevada assemblywoman has been cleared of violating campaign finance laws.
Posted: 10:35 AM The DNC included a call to legalize same-sex marriage in the party's convention platform last year.
Posted: 8:27 AM Attention online shoppers: The days of tax-free shopping on the Internet may soon end for many of you.
Posted: 1:42 PM The White House says President Barack Obama's trip to Austin, Texas, on Thursday will kick off a series of day trips aimed at highlighting his proposals on jobs and the economy.
Posted: 1:18 PM Now showing at the Nevada Legislature: Reruns. At least, that's what's on the marquee. But it's the unadvertised, sneak preview everyone is waiting for as lawmakers enter the final month of session.
Posted: 11:55 AM President Barack Obama is defending the FBI's handling of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation as Republicans ready for oversight hearings on the attack.
Posted: 6:13 PM President Barack Obama says he supports recognizing gay unions in a broad immigration bill pending in Congress but won't say whether he would sign legislation that fails to do so.
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