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Lawmakers are one step closer to the end of the 2017 Legislative Session. Tuesday was the deadline to pass bills out of their house of origin if they were to move further into the legislative process. That means lawmakers had to approve hundreds of bills in relatively short order. Below is a list and short description of the measures passed between the dates of April 17-25, 2017 Still Alive Assembly (Bill – Most Recent Vote Count -- Description) AB5 –34-8 – Allows local governments to create an

A bill in the state legislature is pushing Nevada’s utility companies into providing half of their power from renewable sources of energy.

Nevada lawmakers are facing yet another deadline in the 2017 legislative session. According to the rules of both the Senate and Assembly, lawmakers are required to pass legislation out of their house of origin by Tuesday, lest the bills die. However, lawmaker’s actions were not necessarily the top news of the week. Illegal Voting Investigation Republican Secretary of State Barbra Cegavske is claiming that three people -- who had not obtained citizenship – illegally voted in the 2016 general

Nevada’s largest public utility, NV Energy, recently announced it is on track to surpass the state’s renewable energy mandate. Current policy requires utility providers to generate 25 percent of their power from renewables by 2025, but some say that’s not enough. Lawmakers are considering legislation to make the state greener. It’s fair to say David Gibson’s home in Reno is a shrine to energy efficiency. All you have to do is look in his back yard to find out. Gibson, who is an engineer, has

More than one thousand people took to the streets of Reno this weekend as part of an effort to support and defend the role science and reasoning play in governmental policy. Carrying signs that read "science is not an alternative fact" and "make America smart again," hundreds of lab coat wearing demonstrators called on policy makers to protect science from political whims. The March for Science, as it was dubbed, took place in hundreds of cities around the country and for hundreds of different

Nevada’s middle class is faring better than any other state in the nation, according to an economic report from Forbes . The Silver State scored the highest on the magazine’s new “American Dream Index,” that measures seven key economic factors impacting the middle class.

Nurit Stites is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. She visits classrooms around Washoe County to share her family’s story with young people, and she spoke with our News Director Michelle Billman about her work.

What to do if your child won't sleep in his own bed.

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A look at the latest film in the Fast and Furious series.