On Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared this city — with its flashy strip of casinos, rows of middle-class subdivisions and one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation — the perfect place to pitch her campaign message.

Nearly a dozen presidential candidates already have been campaigning in the Silver State, which will host the first caucus in the West in February after those in Iowa and New Hampshire.

If you get a speeding ticket from a traffic cop, you have a right to fight it. And you don’t have to pay the fine until the case is resolved in court.

If you get a speeding ticket from a traffic cop, you have a right to fight it. And you don’t have to pay the fine until the case is resolved in court.

Before Heidi Wixom arrived at her neighborhood high school to cast a caucus vote in each of the last two presidential elections, she already had a steadfast favorite to support.

When state lawmakers wanted ideas about how to improve the state’s community colleges last year, the Nevada System of Higher Education hired a Colorado-based think tank to scrutinize the four schools.

What do Nevada’s 2014 midterm elections and the upcoming presidential race have in common: the influence of Latino voters.

Brian Sandoval, who gave up a lifetime appointment as a federal judge to run for Nevada governor, said he liked the job so much that he was turning his back on a U.S. Senate bid that he would've been highly favored to win.

Gov. Brian Sandoval, who gave up a lifetime appointment as a federal judge to run for the Nevada office, said he liked the job so much that he was turning his back on a U.S. Senate bid that he would've been highly favored to win.

Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to South Carolina this week and began to confront one of the most pointed threats she faces so far on the campaign trail: echoes from her campaign of seven years ago.

In South Carolina, voters want to ship their nuclear waste far away, maybe to a long-dormant federal site in Nevada called Yucca Mountain. Nevadans, on the other hand, mostly want to see it anywhere but in their state.

Nevada will play a crucial role in the presidential primary next year, as the fourth state to nominate a candidate and the first heavily Latino state to vote. In an effort to win support of the growing minority, Republican lawmakers in the state are trying something new — expanding voting rights for minorities instead of restricting them.