Rep. Jacky Rosen, who is running for a Senate seat in a state that President Donald Trump barely lost, says she’ll always vote in Nevada’s best interest even if that means going against her party’s leadership should she be elected to the Senate.

Dean Heller claims he’s the only barrier between Nevadans and the revival of Yucca Mountain as a repository for nuclear waste. The question is whether he can be that bulwark during a difficult re-election campaign.

Ted Jelen, a professor credited with helping raise the profile of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) political science department over the past two decades, died Tuesday after a lengthy illness. He was 65.

President Donald Trump’s top budget man, Mick Mulvaney, solved a mystery Tuesday. Asked who put $120 million into Trump’s spending plan to restart licensing for a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and other interim storage, Mulvaney said he did.

After violence pierces U.S. cities and towns, Americans come together. Later politics can drive them apart.

After violence pierces U.S. cities and towns, Americans come together. Later politics can drive them apart.

Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas may have pierced the gun lobby’s no-exceptions resistance to compromise.

Senators — who needs them? Most presidents try not to feud with members of Congress from their own party. But President Donald Trump is known for shredding the rule book, so why would congressional etiquette be any different?