2026Election Stories

With five-term Democratic Assemblywoman Lesley Cohen's upcoming departure, Democrat Joe Dalia and Republican Annette Dawson Owens are vying for the newly open seat.

During a candidates forum, Las Vegas mayoral candidates Shelley Berkley and Victoria Seaman agreed the city needs to settle the long-running land-use dispute surrounding the defunct Badlands golf course.

In separate, in-depth interviews with The Nevada Independent, Assemblywoman Angie Taylor (D-Reno) and Republican candidate Mike Ginsburg answered questions across a wide range of policy areas.

Cari-Ann Burgess' leave from the key role in Nevada's major swing county comes after multiple snafus, including misprinted ballots.

For the first time in history, Native American voters in Nevada cast ballots through the state's online absentee voting system.

Some senators' currency is media attention; others are known for their erudite mastery of a policy niche; some operate on ruthless instinct. Rosen's approach is all about friendliness — but, as Harris alluded to, kindness can be killer.

Adelson, the wife of the late gaming magnate Sheldon Adelson and an ardent supporter of her native Israel, has been among the chief financiers of Trump's political ambitions.

There were no noted dissents in the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, which did not provide a reason for denying the Green Party's emergency application to qualify for the ballot.

In the open seat, Democrat Ryan Hampton, an addiction recovery advocate is facing off against Lisa Cole, a lawyer and the vice president of an economic development small business.

Across all six swing states surveyed, researchers indicated that majorities of Republicans and Democrats favor federal actions to help families.

Horsford's plan, unlike Republican-led proposals to solely exempt tips from federal taxation, includes eliminating the federal tipped subminimum wage, aiming to improve tipped workers' pay by raising their baseline earnings and easing their tax burden.

The Nevada Senate campaigns (and supportive outside groups) are each spending millions of dollars to try to get voters to think of their opponent in the same breath as their party leader.

If Democrats lose both the White House and the Senate, it could allow Republicans to reverse the climate wins of the Biden administration.

A Nevada Independent analysis found voting-age Latino population growth has outpaced statewide growth, while a Census survey shows Latino voters participate less often than Black and white voters.

The proposal would amend the Nevada Constitution to require all voters in Nevada to present a valid photo identification before voting, or part of a personally identifiable number while voting by mail.

In a freewheeling speech, Trump delivered his usual rhetoric against illegal immigration and once again predicted that a victory for Kamala Harris would mark the undoing of America.

In separate long-ranging interviews with The Nevada Independent, the candidates addressed questions across 14 different policy areas.

Vice President Kamala Harris now holds a 23 percentage point lead over former President Donald Trump among registered Hispanic voters in Nevada.

Donald Trump's campaign and other GOP groups have filed a lawsuit alleging that Nevada fails to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls — Republicans' fourth lawsuit challenging the state's electoral procedures this year. 

Bipartisan majorities of Nevadans support raising taxes and/or cutting benefits to maintain the solvency of Social Security — defying conventional wisdom that changes to the popular retirement program are politically unthinkable.