Jackson is believed to be the first formerly incarcerated legislator in state history. In Carson City he wants to build on his work as an organizer for progressive groups.

The final set of laws passed during Nevada’s 2023 legislative session went into effect Wednesday, including measures related to ending the subminimum wage for disabled employees and removing the sales tax on diapers.

Changes abound for Southern Nevada’s local governments, including the start of a new political career for the former congresswoman.

Here’s a look at how Tuesday’s primaries turned out for Southern Nevada local government candidates, including in Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City. 

Down-ballot races heat up as aspiring officials compete for county commission, school board and city council seats across Nevada.

Although their candidacy does not become official until the filing period that begins March 4, candidates for local government offices have already begun fundraising.

For a full breakdown of who has announced so far, check out our tracker. Read further below for details on candidate announcements and how races are playing out.

Summers-Armstrong is the sixth state lawmaker to announce a bid for a different public office and the 15th who will not return to the Legislature in 2025.

Despite struggling to find agreement on what constitutes affordable housing, a panel of experts recently agreed that keeping Nevadans' particular needs in mind is key to solving one of the state’s biggest economic challenges.

Friday and Saturday mark the start of IndyFest, The Nevada Independent’s fourth annual two-day conference focused on policy and politics.

There’s just seven days until government funding lapses, and with House Republicans yet to pass a spending bill, federal agencies are preparing to close. The last government shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — lasted 35 days in 2018 and 2019.

Overall numbers of unhoused people across the state have increased, but experts say the point-in-time count doesn’t account for the complexities of homelessness and is a single annual snapshot within a community that changes every day.

A report from Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, which extrapolates data from courts in Southern Nevada, found that nearly 5,000 filings were made last month. In total, the report found that since May 2020, 123,422 eviction filings were made with nearly 60,000 evictions filed this past year — a 160 percent increase since before the pandemic.

Republican legislators were more likely to buck their party, with 415 out of nearly 15,000 votes this year in support of bills that the majority of their caucus opposed.

The provisions of AB486, a bill passed in 2021 to prevent evictions for people who had applied for rental assistance, expired earlier this month, and Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed a bill that contained an attempt to extend it.

Gov. Joe Lombardo has begun issuing vetoes in earnest ahead of the end of the state’s 120-day legislative session, striking down measures ranging from gun control bills to mental health care reforms.

Nevada officially outlawed fertility fraud June 7 when Gov. Joe Lombardo signed SB309. The bill gained unanimous support in both houses of Nevada’s female-majority Legislature, which took on a variety of reproductive health policy matters this spring.

Here’s a look at which bills have passed (and failed) ahead of Friday’s deadline.

Sen. Roberta Lange (D-Las Vegas), chair of the Senate Education Committee, told The Nevada Independent on Tuesday that her committee would not have time to hear both bills ahead of a key bill deadline on Friday.

Here’s a look at major policies that passed out of floor sessions last week. We’ll be updating this story throughout Monday and Tuesday, as more bills move out of the Assembly and Senate.