Pope Francis will be speaking in front of a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill.

The packed crowd watching CNN’s Republican presidential debate at Reno’s Men Wielding Fire restaurant roared when candidate Carly Fiorina responded to a statement by Donald Trump that suggested Fiorina’s looks make her unelectable.

In a back corner of Bally's Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Ingrid Montenegro spends her days taking people's orders at a deli and watching gamblers shuffle in and out of the nearby poker room to refuel on cigarettes and coffee.

When Nevadans vote next year for their U.S. senator, Harry Reid’s name won’t appear on the ballot for the first time in three decades. But even though the powerful and polarizing Senate minority leader is retiring, that doesn’t mean he won’t have a role in in, and impact on, next year’s election.

On Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared this city — with its flashy strip of casinos, rows of middle-class subdivisions and one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation — the perfect place to pitch her campaign message.

Nearly a dozen presidential candidates already have been campaigning in the Silver State, which will host the first caucus in the West in February after those in Iowa and New Hampshire.

If you get a speeding ticket from a traffic cop, you have a right to fight it. And you don’t have to pay the fine until the case is resolved in court.

If you get a speeding ticket from a traffic cop, you have a right to fight it. And you don’t have to pay the fine until the case is resolved in court.

Before Heidi Wixom arrived at her neighborhood high school to cast a caucus vote in each of the last two presidential elections, she already had a steadfast favorite to support.

When state lawmakers wanted ideas about how to improve the state’s community colleges last year, the Nevada System of Higher Education hired a Colorado-based think tank to scrutinize the four schools.

What do Nevada’s 2014 midterm elections and the upcoming presidential race have in common: the influence of Latino voters.

Brian Sandoval, who gave up a lifetime appointment as a federal judge to run for Nevada governor, said he liked the job so much that he was turning his back on a U.S. Senate bid that he would've been highly favored to win.