2026Election Stories

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.

Amid a turbulent few months for the governing board of the state's higher education system, multiple candidates have filed to run in every one of the open seats on the Board of Regents.

Amid shifting demographics and a move to the Republican Party in states such as Florida and Texas, Latino voters and their political preferences are less predictable than ever before.

A proposed Nevada ballot initiative filed this month by an organization called Common Sense for Uniting America (CSUA) aims to "close the great American divide" by adopting a star rating system for voting. 

Nye County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend the county clerk ditch electronic voting machines and move to all-paper, hand-counted elections for both the 2022 primary and general elections. 

According to the unsealed indictment, Muraviev allegedly conspired with Florida-based businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who were associates of Donald Trump's private lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. 

Often overlooked compared with some of its neighbors, North Las Vegas — Nevada's fourth-largest city — is home to a lively 2022 mayoral race that's likely to give the city its first Black mayor.