2026Election Stories

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) helped derail an effort to revamp an 1872 mining law in the Democrats' agenda bill. The move has raised concerns with environmentalist ahead of a tough re-election campaign.

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) raised more than $500,000 in the first quarter of 2022, ending March with $1.94 million in cash on hand, his campaign told The Nevada Independent on Tuesday.

As the clock ticks down ahead of the June primary, the political advertising machine is revving up.  

State election officials need two more years to implement a new state-led voter registration system, as transitioning away from the current system by a January 2024 deadline appears unlikely.

Part of Alvidrez's platform includes making it easier for immigrants to become American and pushing for gold and silver and cryptocurrencies to become legal tender in Nevada.

Throughout the debate, Tarkanian asked voters who are unhappy with the performance of Congress to vote for someone other than Amodei, who first assumed office in 2011.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) raised more than $4.4 million in the first three months of 2022, the largest single-quarter sum raised by any U.S. Senate candidate in Nevada through the 2022 midterm cycle so far.  

As other states move forward on legislation forbidding instruction on sexual orientation and banning transgender girls from playing on school sports teams that match their gender identity, Gov. Steve Sisolak said Nevada is moving in the opposite direction to support transgender youth.

Amodei took issue with Tarkanian's comments in the video announcing his surprise run, in which Tarkanian claimed Amodei did not "vote for America First principles as articulated by" former President Donald Trump. 

Three days of confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, filtered into the race for Nevada's U.S. Senate seat.

Down-ballot races often play a bigger role in the day-to-day life of communities with school boards setting education policy and municipal governments overseeing land use planning and business licensure.

Republican Washoe County Commissioner Bob Lucey filed a candidacy challenge against his lone Republican primary opponent, Mike Clark.

Lombardo, 59, criticized Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak's handling of the COVID pandemic, saying the governor took too long to reopen the economy and unfairly relied on the police to enforce mandates and closures.

The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer with a ruling that would erode federal protections for abortion rights, refueling the polarizing debate in many of Nevada's most competitive races.

To hammer home her argument for Nevada, Rosen provided the DNC with a handout that included statistics showing that Nevada ranks third in the country in diversity, based on the Census Bureau's 2020 diversity index.

The two-month ad reservation, which runs from Labor Day in September to Election Day, is more than President Joe Biden's campaign spent in Nevada in the 2020 election.

The candidates by and large agreed that the state needs to diversify its economy, lessen reliance on the gaming and hospitality industries and expand educational opportunities beyond the traditional public school system. 

Even as commissioners rejected the proposal, Lucey and Hartung both indicated there were portions of the resolution they supported, though they were largely unspecific.

After more than a week of sparring directly and indirectly over Twitter and media interviews, GOP Senate frontrunners Adam Laxalt and Sam Brown appeared to agree to not one, but two debates over the next two months. 

The end of filing means campaign season is officially underway, as candidates — including more than 60 who filed in Clark County on Friday — prepare for the June 14 primary election and Nov. 8 general election.