Gov. Brian Sandoval, who gave up a lifetime appointment as a federal judge to run for the Nevada office, 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.

Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to South Carolina this week and began to confront one of the most pointed threats she faces so far on the campaign trail: echoes from her campaign of seven years ago.

In South Carolina, voters want to ship their nuclear waste far away, maybe to a long-dormant federal site in Nevada called Yucca Mountain. Nevadans, on the other hand, mostly want to see it anywhere but in their state.

Nevada will play a crucial role in the presidential primary next year, as the fourth state to nominate a candidate and the first heavily Latino state to vote. In an effort to win support of the growing minority, Republican lawmakers in the state are trying something new — expanding voting rights for minorities instead of restricting them.

Brace yourself, Nevada. If nasty commercials and mailboxes stuffed with campaign fliers incite annoyance, it will get a whole lot worse if a bill making its way through the Legislature becomes law.

Jeb Bush has his eyes on Nevada -- a state that is aiming to become a bigger player in presidential politics.

Once an afterthought, Latino voters have moved to the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, the object of early and unprecedented courtship by candidates on both sides.

Henderson’s City Council has voted on more than 3,000 issues over the past three years. And all five members have agreed almost every time.

The idea of breaking up the Clark County School District has been around for decades without really going anywhere — until now.

Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. Between 1915 and 1923, about 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks.

UNLV professor David Damore plans to discuss Nevada’s history as a swing state.

Hillary Clinton signaled with her first Nevada hires how important growing and winning the Latino vote is to her presidential campaign here.