Sen. Dean Heller featured prominently in congressional goings-on last week beginning with an awkward exchange with President Donald Trump over immigration and ending with a joint letter with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto urging no federal appropriations for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project.

But that enthusiasm hasn’t translated to Heller’s role chairing two Senate subcommittees, which have yet to meet over the last year and a half since Heller was appointed to lead them and touted his ability in news releases to help Nevada through those roles.

Nevada’s premiums on the health-care exchange are likely to increase by about $843 next year as a result of Congress’s repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and a new Trump administration rule on short-term health insurance plans, according to a new report from the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress.

Lyon County's five commissioners voted unanimously on Thursday to draft a ballot question for November to ask voters whether its brothels should stay or go.

The Clark County School District’s incoming superintendent, Jesus Jara, will receive a $320,000 annual salary and up to $10,000 to defray moving costs.Those are some of the terms laid out in a three-year employment agreement approved Thursday by a divided School Board of Trustees, solidifying Jara’s hire with the nation’s fifth-largest district.

At a Board of Prison Commissioners meeting, the Nevada Department of Corrections reported there were 272 inmates on in-house parole, meaning they weren’t approved for release into the community because there were issues with their transition plan, administrative hold-ups or lack of appropriate housing. That’s out of a total count of 13,229 inmates.

Businessman Danny Tarkanian and former television reporter Michelle Mortensen traded barbs during the first debate in the race to secure the Republican nomination for Nevada’s swingiest congressional district, with Mortensen deriding Tarkanian as a “perennial candidate” and Tarkanian quipping that Mortensen spent the last few years “doing reports on OxiClean and salad spinners.”

But that’s the case for Dan Rodimer, a Republican state Senate candidate who worked a brief stint in the World Wrestling Entertainment in the mid 2000s and is now ramping up his campaign for one of the key legislative seats up on the 2018 ballot.

The court’s order is most likely a fatal blow for the proposed ballot initiative, which has been championed by Republican state Senate Leader Michael Roberson. The Prevent Sanctuary Cities PAC, which sponsored the ballot question and introduced it last year, must now start over and collect 112,544 signatures — including 28,136 from each of the state’s congressional districts — before a June 19 deadline, or it won’t appear on the November ballot.