"Affordable housing should be a right, not a privilege," said Rep. Dina Titus. Read more »

Congresswoman Dina Titus announced that the Nevada System of Higher Education will receive a $519,376 federal grant to address threats such as the mass shooting at UNLV in Dec. 2023. Read more »

Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., on Thursday introduced new legislation aimed at strengthening federal regulation of transporting lithium-ion batteries in the wake of a truck crash and subsequent fire that shut down Interstate 15 near Barstow. Read more »

Clark County has one of the highest evictions rates in the country, according to Princeton’s Eviction Lab. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., who represents Nevada’s 1st District which includes urban areas south of Las Vegas, Henderson and Boulder City, said high eviction rates take a heavy toll on any local community in a number of ways. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., has lived through many Southern Nevada summers, when the struggle of dealing with the extreme heat is so severe that residents are dropping dead at an alarming rate.   Clark County this week announced that so far this summer the total number of deaths in which heat was a factor stood at 63. And there’s been plenty of heat to go around in Las… Read more »

A 20-acre affordable housing community could be coming to the southwest valley on the north side of Cactus Avenue between Buffalo Drive and Rainbow Boulevard. The Southern Nevada District Office of the Bureau of Land Management announced it is seeking public input via a “notice of realty action” that is now open until Aug. 30 regarding a Clark County Department of Social Services… Read more »

As extreme heat ravages communities across the country, the Federal Emergency Management Agency may soon take a more active role in responding, thanks to a bill introduced Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., are sponsoring the Extreme Weather and Heat Response Modernization Act, with the support of Nevada-based research… Read more »

In a letter dated Tuesday, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Reps. Dina Titus, Steven Horsford and Susie Lee, D-Nev., urged the U.S. Department of Interior to issue a “mineral withdrawal” around the Ash Meadows National Refuge. Read more »

Pondering what wastes the most water in the Las Vegas Valley, residents might think of any number of features, from the dazzle of the Fountains of Bellagio to the green golf courses that stick out in the beige desert. First and foremost, irrigating thirsty grass tops the list of wasteful water uses. But not far behind is a relatively unknown use that allows water to disappear into thin… Read more »

Bump stocks — firearm modification devices that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire faster and were used to devastating effect in the 1 October shooting in Las Vegas — are now legal again after a Friday ruling by the Supreme Court. In 2017, a gunman at the Mandalay Bay opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Sixty people were killed and more than 850 were injured.… Read more »