Nevada has detailed fresh concerns about plans to expedite licensing of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear repository in a report that was delivered Friday by the state’s congressional delegation to key House members. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., distributed the state’s report to lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce and the House Appropriation committees asking that they review it… Read more »

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Marijuana could become federally legal if a bill that Nevada Rep. Dina Titus recently signed onto becomes law. Titus, a Democrat representing central Las Vegas, on Tuesday signed on as a co-sponsor to a bill from U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, that aims to remove marijuana in all forms from the schedule of drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. “Nevada has shown that… Read more »

In response to ongoing threats to the cannabis industry from the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, lawmakers have prepared a bill meant to nip funding for federal interference in the bud. Last week, Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a house resolution aimed "to protect states and individuals in states that have laws which permit the use of… Read more »

Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) slammed President Trump for his remarks referring to immigrants from “shithole countries,” saying Trump is a “vile stain” on America’s reputation. “Just when you think he cannot say anything more vulgar and offensive, he embarrasses us again,” Titus tweeted Thursday. “He is a vile stain on our country's… Read more »

Several thousand Nevada residents from El Salvador will likely face deportation in September 2019 under a new Trump Administration directive to end their Temporary Protected Status. According to the Center for American Progress, about 6,300 Nevada residents are TPS holders from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti. The Las Vegas Sun reports about 4,800 of those TPS recipients are… Read more »

Nevada elected officials stood amid glass-shelved displays of marijuana last week to tell the federal government to keep its hands off the state’s legal cannabis industry. Rep. Dina Titus and state Sens. Tick Segerblom and Aaron Ford were at the Apothecary Shoppe marijuana dispensary in Las Vegas, responding to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ removal of Obama-era protections… Read more »

Nearly 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador — some of whom have lived in the U.S. for more than two decades — expect to learn Monday whether they’ll be obligated to leave the country because of the cancellation of the Temporary Protected Status program. Since a devastating earthquake hit the Central American country in 2001, the TPS program has offered Salvadorans… Read more »

LAS VEGAS - Nevada's marijuana industry reacted to an anti-pot move by United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday. The industry says this could be a threat to businesses. Marijuana is not legal federally, but it's legal in Nevada. However, federal laws trump state laws. Under President Barack Obama, federal prosecutors were discouraged from cracking down on marijuana… Read more »

If a prominent bookmaker fielded a request to set a line on whether the Supreme Court will rule in favor of New Jersey in the landmark sports gambling case before the nation's top court, the sportsbook may opt instead to keep the wager off the board. Following Monday's hearing in Washington D.C., numerous gaming experts insisted that they are not in the business of predicting the… Read more »