2026Election Stories

Across Northern Nevada, incumbent candidates running for Washoe County Commission and city councils in Reno and Sparks largely appear headed to re-election or are neck-and-neck with challengers.

In Clark County, the number of uncounted mail ballots, which include those dropped off in ballot boxes on Election Day, is likely in the tens of thousands, adding to the roughly 27,000 ballots Registrar Joe Gloria said the county was processing Wednesday.

Most of Nevada's top races remain too early to call with tens of thousands of ballots left to count, but initial results in the state's 2022 midterm elections slightly favor incumbent Democrats Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Gov. Steve Sisolak.

The latest updates on Election Day 2022 in Nevada from the staff of The Nevada Independent.

However, Cegavske's letter to Kampf, written by Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Mark Wlaschin, raised multiple concerns about the proposed process, primarily regarding the possibility of tampering by those counting votes.

Just two Republicans denounced prominent donor Robert Beadles after learning of his past controversial statements.

In an age where more and more aspects of life are becoming paperless, there's one paper product that remains as ubiquitous as ever — the election mailer.

Political candidates who cleared the primary hurdle are gearing up for the granddaddy of campaign season: the general election on Tuesday.

In what has become a fight for political survival for Cortez Masto and a chance to finally re-enter electoral politics for Laxalt, the 2022 midterms have emerged as a grueling slog fought through tens of millions of dollars in advertising spending that have blanketed airwaves with nonstop attacks. 

Centene, the largest Medicaid managed-care company in the U.S., has thrown more than $26.9 million at political campaigns across the country since 2015, especially focused on states where it is wooing Medicaid contracts and settling accusations that it overbilled taxpayers.

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion access emerged as a near-constant campaign focus during the battle for Nevada governor. In this story, we separate fact from fiction.

Republican state treasurer candidate and Las Vegas City Council member Michele Fiore filed amended campaign finance documents on Tuesday following a complaint, but discrepancies remain.

Though Sisolak and Lombardo have provided significantly different perspectives on the state of the economy, they have both pointed to inflation as being a federal issue, while offering visions for economic development with broad similarities.

The ruling marks a defeat for the RNC, whose chairwoman had claimed the county's lack of registered Republicans involved with the verification of signatures was "illegal."

The former president's visit — scheduled just one week before Election Day and three days before the close of early voting — comes as a part of a nationwide campaign swing designed to boost Democratic candidates in the final window before the midterms.

With early voting well underway, Planned Parenthood Votes Nevada held a decidedly different get-out-the-vote event: a drag show.

Come one, come all: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard and Barack Obama are among the political figures who have visited Nevada in recent weeks to stump for their respective parties' candidates.

From Oct. 1-19, Cortez Masto raised more than four times as much money as Republican Senate candidate and former Attorney General Adam Laxalt, bringing in $9.1 million to his $2.2 million.

Just days before the end of Nevada's early voting period, top Democratic incumbents, including Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Gov. Steve Sisolak, hold narrow leads over their Republican opponents.

Its decision to remind Republican voters of that endorsement could be viewed as an effort to stymie GOP enthusiasm for Joe Lombardo.