Politics

Residents of a rural, Republican-leaning town that the Nevada Legislature split into two Assembly districts filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s district maps.

Legal challenges are likely and frustrations are deep after a divisive special session where Democrats found themselves with virtually no supporters.

Nevada lawmakers revised redistricting maps on Monday to count hundreds of residents at their pre-incarceration addresses rather than at the prisons where they were counted during the 2020 census.

The Nevada State Senate on Sunday approved a bill containing the congressional and legislative maps they hope to use for the next decade.

Nevada Democrat Kimi Cole wants to become the country’s first openly transgender politician elected to a statewide office.

A new congressional district map introduced in Nevada on Tuesday proposes changes that could make the state’s two battleground districts more Democratic-leaning for the next decade.

Commissioners asked very few questions of the candidates and had minimal deliberation before selecting Don Tatro to move forward in the process.

Members of the Carson City Board of Supervisors today selected Robert Weise as their pick to fill the seat for Senate District 16.

Nevada’s efforts to end so-called “prison gerrymandering” are far from complete as lawmakers prepare to implement a recently passed ban of the practice for the first time later this year.

A fight over an attack ad airing on local television in Nevada is pointing to challenges both parties may face attempting to turn the debate over an infrastructure bill in Congress into campaign fodder.