Washoe County defense attorneys and law enforcement have blamed a policy in the district attorney's office for increases in criminal trials and non-charging decisions. The county's top prosecutor has fiercely defended the policy.

On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee asked a federal appeals court to deny an appeal filed in a nearly yearlong legal case brought by state and national Republicans seeking to end Nevada’s practice of accepting mail ballots as many as four days after an election, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. 

Justices could use the case to weaken press freedom protections stemming from the New York Times vs. Sullivan ruling. Wynn says he was defamed by the AP.

The impressive nominating pace of both presidencies means that in his second term, Trump is unlikely to have much influence on the federal judiciary in Nevada. But his first-term impact on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he appointed 10 of the court’s 29 judges, means that Nevada could be subject to more conservative judicial rulings in future cases. 

Frierson, a Democrat who spent 10 years in the Assembly, including three years in the top leadership role of speaker, was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden in 2021. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022 for a four-year term. 

With a stroke of his pen, President Donald Trump pardoned, commuted the sentences or ordered the dismissal of the cases of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to their conduct on the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6 2021, from assaulting police officers to destroying government property.

In his first two years as Nevada’s attorney general, Aaron Ford tangled with then-President Donald Trump 33 times.

It marks the latest roadblock for states in a running feud with the U.S. government over who should control huge swaths of the West and the enormous oil and gas, timber, and other resources they contain.

The state’s legal dispensaries logged $829 million in taxable sales in the fiscal year that ended in June. Sales have fallen each year since peaking in fiscal year 2021.

Supporters decided to not spend money on signature-gathering efforts because of uncertainty surrounding whether the initiative would survive in court.

Trump lost the Silver State in 2020, but his allies hatched a plan to try to overturn the election results in part by identifying themselves as their states’ true electors. Foyr years later, the fake electors have not faced any significant repercussions.

The charges relate to accusations that the GOP fake electors knowingly forged documents purporting to be the state’s true 2020 electors. The Nevada attorney general’s initial prosecution was dismissed in Clark County this year over concerns about the jurisdiction. 

Las Vegas city attorneys could negotiate paying between $250 million and $286 million to the Badlands developer who was blocked from turning a golf course into housing.

In a 4-3 ruling, the court determined that the four legislators did not violate the state Constitution's prohibition of working for multiple branches of state government because none of their employers are part of the judicial or executive branches.

Five of the high court's justices ruled that justices disagreed with Republicans' interpretation of the law at the center of the lawsuit and determined it would not be in the public interest to change the election procedures this late in the cycle.

Juries have been told that tests found Real Water contained hydrazine, a chemical used in rocket fuel. Its parent company, Affinitylifestyles.com, was headed by Brent Jones, who served as a Republican Nevada state Assembly member from 2016 to 2018.

Judicial races are usually characterized by roadside signs saying nothing, fluffy TV ads and flashy mailers providing little illumination for voters who are mostly unfamiliar with the incumbents or challengers. This project aims to change that.

The resignation follows an Indy story revealing reports that Cafferata, a longtime fixture in Nevada political and legal circles, did not ably represent clients.

In a ruling issued Friday afternoon, Judge Cristina Silva determined that Republicans had again failed to establish standing while arguing that high voter registration rates in five Nevada counties had harmed their overall mission and campaign work.

Standing in shackles before the judge on Wednesday, Robert Telles offered “deepest condolences” to Jeff German's family but again denied responsibility for the reporter's death.