The first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign is underway, and the party frontrunner won't be there. Eight candidates met the Republican National Committee's criteria for the debate on Wednesday.

As Democrats have fanned out across the country this summer to sell voters on the president’s agenda a year out from the election, Cabinet members and elected officials have honed in on a specific theme in appearances in Las Vegas — the cost of prescription drugs.

A day after Donald Trump and others were indicted over allegations of trying to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, it remains unclear if similar prosecutions could occur in Nevada.

The Nevada Republican Party announced it will hold its presidential caucus Feb. 8, two days after the state’s presidential preference primary.

Nonpartisan voters now outnumber registered Democrats and Republicans in Nevada, according to data released by the Secretary of State's office.

It’s rare to be a moderate in Nevada’s Legislature — and there’s no sign of that changing. In the past seven legislative sessions, just 15 percent of legislators were more likely to vote toward the middle of the ideological spectrum in a given session than toward the farthest left or right, according to a Nevada Independent analysis.

Many of them reside in the political middle, uninterested in the extremes of partisan politics. Some are ticket splitters. They’ve helped maintain Nevada’s status as a purple state and a national bellwether.

Gov. Joe Lombardo seems to be staying out of the 2024 presidential primary discourse, walking a fine tightrope to appease different voters. When asked during a news conference Friday whether he would support former President Donald Trump — who faces a swath of other GOP challengers in his Oval Office bid — Lombardo said he “will support whoever is successful in the primary.”

Gov. Joe Lombardo seems to be staying out of the 2024 presidential primary discourse, walking a fine tightrope to appease different voters.

Gov. Joe Lombardo seems to be staying out of the 2024 presidential primary discourse, walking a fine tightrope to appease different voters.

Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent as officials insist the economy must move away from its focus on gambling.

Last month, presidential hopeful and former President Donald Trump held a rally at Fervent Calvary Chapel in Las Vegas. Before that, the chapel hosted a “Make America Great Again” rally where Jim Marchant announced his run for Senate.