The final hours of the legislative session may have been the killing blow to the bill, but that isn’t the full explanation.

In a last-minute joint letter to Gov. Joe Lombardo, the Resort Association and Culinary Union urged lawmakers to adopt the proposal reestablishing the court with powers to ban people from the region.

A committee advanced the bill, but with major changes that crack down on smash-and-grab burglaries and increase penalties for certain offenses on the Strip.

Presented in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a nearly six-hour hearing — its first this session — SB457 would impose harsher sentences for repeat offenders and for a large swath of crimes, including lowering the thresholds for burglary to be considered a felony offense.

SB350, which passed out of the state Senate in April on a party-line 13-8 vote with Republicans opposed, would lengthen the time frame to carry out an execution after a judge issues a judgment of death.

Sigal Chattah, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Nevada, said in a radio interview last week that she had “walked away” from her responsibilities as one of Nevada’s two Republican National Committee (RNC) officers.

Lombardo, alongside several state law enforcement officers, championed the bill during the press conference as “commonsense criminal justice reforms” that will improve community safety, although state data indicates that property crime and violent crime have ticked down over the past two years.

Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada Sigal Chattah has yet to publicly resign her position as the state’s Republican national committeewoman and was introduced virtually at a state party meeting Saturday, potentially violating Department of Justice rules against its employees participating in political activities.

Authorities say Kim threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and fired several gunshots in a Tesla service center's parking lot early March 18. No one was injured.

Chattah, the Republican National Committeewoman for Nevada, has long been an ally of President Donald Trump. She has filed numerous lawsuits challenging Nevada’s election laws, including representing the state Republican Party in its efforts to cancel the 2024 Republican presidential primary and challenging a state law aimed at protecting election workers.

A man who set fire to Tesla vehicles in Las Vegas and who painted the word “resist” for authorities to find at the scene has been arrested, police announced Thursday.

Washoe County defense attorneys and law enforcement have blamed a policy in the district attorney's office for increases in criminal trials and non-charging decisions. The county's top prosecutor has fiercely defended the policy.

Frierson, a Democrat who spent 10 years in the Assembly, including three years in the top leadership role of speaker, was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden in 2021. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022 for a four-year term. 

With a stroke of his pen, President Donald Trump pardoned, commuted the sentences or ordered the dismissal of the cases of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to their conduct on the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6 2021, from assaulting police officers to destroying government property.

The state’s legal dispensaries logged $829 million in taxable sales in the fiscal year that ended in June. Sales have fallen each year since peaking in fiscal year 2021.

Standing in shackles before the judge on Wednesday, Robert Telles offered “deepest condolences” to Jeff German's family but again denied responsibility for the reporter's death.

Zeitlin carried out the fraud by using “call centers” that he has operated since at least 1994 to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charities and political action committees.

Wynn Resorts reached a “non-prosecution agreement” with the U.S. Department of Justice and will forfeit $130 million to resolve a 10-year-old investigation into transactions at Wynn Las Vegas.

Robert Telles hung his head, shaking it slightly from side to side as the guilty verdict was read Wednesday in Clark County District Court.

A jury began deliberating Monday in the trial of a former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician accused of killing an investigative journalist.