Find out in our latest fact brief.

Find out in our latest fact brief.

In 2024 Nevada had the fourth-highest pedestrian death rate in the country, an issue state and local leaders have sought to curb.

Find out in our latest fact brief.

The Nevada Independent is partnering with The Gigafact Project — an initiative to safeguard democracy and spread accurate information through a dramatic ramp-up in accurate, high-quality fact checks.

The Nevada Independent is partnering with The Gigafact Project — an initiative to safeguard democracy and spread accurate information through a dramatic ramp-up in accurate, high-quality fact checks.

The Nevada Independent is partnering with The Gigafact Project — an initiative to safeguard democracy and spread accurate information through a dramatic ramp-up in accurate, high-quality fact checks.

Do undocumented immigrants pay taxes? How much did Nevada spend to send ballots through the mail to all registered voters? A roundup of claims our team fact-checked in the past week.

The Nevada Independent is partnering with The Gigafact Project — an initiative to safeguard democracy and spread accurate information through a dramatic ramp-up in accurate, high-quality fact checks.

Bite-sized fact checks from the past week, ranging from whether it's legal to grow marijuana at home in Nevada to whether Burning Man is trying to stop a green energy project.

The Nevada Independent is partnering with The Gigafact Project — an initiative to safeguard democracy and spread accurate information through a dramatic ramp-up in accurate, high-quality fact checks.

The Nevada Independent is partnering with The Gigafact Project — an initiative to safeguard democracy and spread accurate information through a dramatic ramp-up in accurate, high-quality fact checks.

To help promote this effort and grant additional visibility to fact briefs produced by The Indy, we'll be publishing this weekly roundup on Mondays to give readers a chance to review and catch up on all of the fact briefs produced throughout the previous week.

But Trump's comment mischaracterizes recent shifts in crime in the Silver State, as the latest crime data do not indicate any statewide increases in overall violent crime over the past few years.

Wednesday night's debate between the top five GOP governor contenders saw plenty of attacks against Joe Lombardo, the presumed and self-proclaimed frontrunner.

With polls and prognosticators giving Democratic candidate Steven Horsford an edge in the race in Nevada's 4th Congressional District, the National Republican Campaign Committee has sought to impugn Horsford by highlighting his career since his 2014 congressional defeat.

With a seemingly unending barrage of days with triple-digit heat and air conditioning running nonstop, it isn't hard to imagine most southern Nevadans looking at their monthly power bill and wishing the cost was a bit lower.

The Coalition to Defeat Question 3 (which has been almost entirely funded by the state's incumbent utility, NV Energy) has seized the politically popular issue of rooftop solar as a possible casualty if the ballot measure were to pass in 2018.

Accusations of putting a family member on her campaign payroll have dogged Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Chris Giunchigliani during the last few months of the primary campaign.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Giunchigliani's votes from 17 years ago to increase state legislators' pay is coming back to haunt her in the form of attack ads from her primary opponent, Steve Sisolak.