2026Election Stories

With two years left in Trump's second term, the next attorney general will face a key question: Keep up the deluge of lawsuits against the federal administration or scale them back?

Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) and Marty O'Donnell (R) are facing off in Nevada's 3rd Congressional District. They explain their positions.

The seven-figure campaign brings Democratic ad spending in the race to more than $6 million this election cycle.

The Nevada Secretary of State's Office has received seven voter-related Department of Justice subpoenas from the FBI over the past three months, it confirmed to The Nevada Independent on Thursday.

Assembly District 2 is the only genuinely competitive Nevada legislative seat that leans Republican this cycle. That distinction carries extra weight this year, as national polling has shown Democrats modestly favored heading into the midterms.

A new whistleblower report warns thousands of mail ballots could go undelivered as plans are rushed into place. Nevada's secretary of state says he's concerned.

David Flippo (R) and Teresa Benitez-Thompson (D) are running to become Nevada's newest member of Congress. Here's what sets them apart.

Assm. Rebecca Edgeworth is a Republican who won her seat by nearly 9 points in 2024. So why is her Democratic challenger confident about a win in November?

In a spirited, lengthy interview, the attorney general addressed topics running from Medicaid fraud to rent control.

The race is a referendum on public trust in Nevada's election system and whether Nevadans would prefer keeping the same leadership or replace it with someone who does not hesitate to promote unproven claims that elections are rife with fraud.

Assembly District 37 is one of the most competitive legislative races on the ballot this November, and one of a handful of seats that could decide whether Democrats maintain a supermajority in the state Assembly.

As Nevada school districts continue to confront budget challenges driven in part by enrollment declines, candidates for the school boards leading two of the state's largest districts shared their visions of how to help public schools navigate that storm. 

Candidates expressed some different positions. Some Democrats were more open to changing laws on energy and water use, while Republicans think federal regulation should ensure that the U.S. is able to compete with China.

Plus: A key national Dem org has spent $0 on ads for Aaron Ford. Is that normal?

Ford's office declined more than half of fraud referrals from Medicaid. The governor hopeful says his prosecution rate is high and many complaints aren't solid enough to pursue.

Officials said they have identified only 185 potential noncitizen voters in the state so far, and the number they originally gave was a "ceiling."

The office is first in line to succeed the governor. It deals with benign issues such as promoting tourism, but candidates have edgier goals.

The Indy asked Nicole Cannizzaro (D) and Adriana Guzmán Fralick (R) where they stand on key issues in the race, ranging from the prioritization of Medicaid fraud to lawsuits against the Trump administration.

The plan is part of a new data center policy platform that Ford's campaign released Wednesday, which also calls for a statewide ban on evaporative cooling and tracking more metrics of data centers receiving tax breaks.

In what's expected to be one of the most competitive gubernatorial races in the country, winning over the state's Latino electorate could prove pivotal. Lombardo's spending big to win them over.