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 »

Designated for government protection less than a year ago, Gold Butte National Monument could shrink in size significantly at the recommendation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. In a report issued Tuesday, Zinke recommends downsizing the nearly 300,000-acre monument “to ensure that the monument reservation is limited to the smallest area compatible with the protection of the… Read more »

After the Supreme Court signaled Monday that it may open the $150 billion-a-year market for sports betting, Democrat Dina Titus, who backs lifting existing state restrictions, requested that Congress look at the issue. “Members of Congress need to be prepared should action at the Supreme Court open the door for sports betting in their home state or warrant federal… Read more »

Nevada will receive $5.7 million in unspent funds for federal health care for low-income children, but the state’s entire congressional delegation urged House and Senate leaders Friday to quickly reauthorize the program that expired two months ago. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notified the state that it would receive the redistribution of unspent funds, which… Read more »

The Las Vegas Democrat has sponsored or signed onto bills and amendments that would protect state laws from Justice Department interference, allow marijuana businesses to use banks and let military veterans access medical cannabis recommendations through government doctors, among others. Those measures haven't advanced, however, because of roadblocks thrown up by Congressional Republican… Read more »

Congressional Democrats, including three from Nevada, have come out against a plan to more than double the entrance fees at some of the nation’s busiest and most iconic national parks. In a letter sent Wednesday to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, 90 House members called on the Trump administration to work with Congress to fully fund the National Park Service rather than jack up fees… Read more »