Lawmakers will consider ramping up prison sentences for certain domestic violence offenses and creating a scholarship for older students attending community college.

Dozens of Nevada’s law firms or lawyers have long been major donors come election season. In 2018, more than 240 lawyers, law firms or law-related PACs donated roughly $630,000 to 56 legislators, good for nearly 6 percent of all contributions to lawmakers during campaign cycle.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said during a campaign swing through Las Vegas this weekend that he would not look to fund or reopen the shuttered nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, a rebuke of efforts by the Trump Administration to kickstart the mothballed facility over the last two years.

In her two years in the Legislature, Cannizzaro has earned a reputation as a fair, decisive leader who fosters collaboration. But she also views criminal justice reform through a distinct lens as a criminal prosecutor — a fact that critics fear could doom ambitious bills to move away from “tough on crime” policies and reduce the prison population.

Lawmakers are crafting legislation that would set a roadmap for untangling the existing funding formula and implementing a more transparent method. The effort has been years in the making. At its core is what many describe as a complicated and archaic mechanism for doling out the state’s education dollars that goes back a half-century.

A bill aiming to give more power to tenants heard Friday in the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor highlighted the tension between advocates seeking to expand tenant rights and property managers and developers — one who called the bill a “slap in the face” — and who have advocated for tax credits and fewer regulations and restrictions on construction.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are scheduled to return to Nevada next month to attend a Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas.

Though seven candidates are officially in the race to replace outgoing Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Coffin, just one has become the center of attention: Former Democratic Congressman Ruben Kihuen, who is looking to stage a political comeback just months after leaving office following allegations of sexual harassment and unwanted advances during the 2016 campaign.