2026Election Stories

With the new District 1 boundaries and demographics, Republican candidates are sensing the opportunity to flip the seat held by Titus.

Candidates filed for office in March, and the primary election will whittle down that field before the general election in November.

In their first debate of the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, former Attorney General Adam Laxalt and newcomer Sam Brown collided over personal histories and "election integrity."

While individual candidates are subject to a $10,000 contribution limit per cycle ($5,000 each for the primary and general), political action committees in Nevada are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts.

Despite a long political career in the Silver State — including eight years in the U.S. Senate — Heller remains in the thick of the pack of the 15-person Republican primary for governor.

Co-moderated by journalist Sam Shad and Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks on the program Nevada Newsmakers, the debate comes with just over three weeks remaining before early voting begins.

The Nevada Democratic Party will apply for approval of that move as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) panel works on revising the Democrats' presidential primary calendar.

Though none of the Republican candidates in District 3 have held office in the Silver State, Becker has emerged as a front runner in the race, bringing in the most money and earning the backing of the Republican establishment.

The Republican National Committee opened an Asian Pacific American Community Center on Wednesday in Las Vegas that it envisions as a resource to reach voters and a hub for members to bring up community concerns.

Even with more than half of their members not returning to the Legislature, Assembly Republicans are feeling confident heading toward the 2023 session that they can capture more seats.

The lawsuits echo claims made by former President Donald Trump, who in the days following the 2020 election erroneously said that his campaign observers were denied access to ballot-counting rooms.

Though Democrats are expected to maintain control of both houses, Republicans are hoping to prevent a two-thirds supermajority (14 seats) that could have implications for tax increases.

By most metrics, the Senate race in Nevada will be one of just a handful that will decide control of the nation's most powerful deliberative body for at least the next two years. 

Conine has signaled that he won't be giving up the job without a fight. He shot back at Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore's entry into the race with a release highlighting the "serious work" of the office.

In the wake of Laxalt's endorsement last week from anti-abortion National Right to Life, The Nevada Independent obtained a copy of the candidate questionnaire the group used to grade possible candidate endorsements. 

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo described the public health care option approved by Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak last year as "bullshit" during Tuesday's forum of GOP governor candidates.

Dubbed the "Rise Up" rally, Wednesday's event took clear aim at the culture war, rousing the crowd of more than 1,000 people with not only attacks on Democratic economic, energy and immigration policies, but also "woke" culture and the "radical left." 

"As governor, Joe will fiercely protect our under-siege Second Amendment, oppose sanctuary cities, support our Law Enforcement, veto any liberal tax increase, protect life and secure our elections," Trump wrote.

Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) represents a reliably red district in Northern Nevada, but he faces a challenger — Douglas County Commissioner Danny Tarkanian — in his re-election bid this year.

One judge ruled that the voter ID proposal's description of effect — a 200-word summary — was argumentative and needed to be rewritten, effectively scrapping all signatures collected at this point.