Politics & Government

Nevada Republicans were hoping for relevance in this year's presidential election and they got it, but whether it will be detrimental or beneficial to the GOP ticket come November is the looming question.

The U.S. Postal Service has pulled back its plan to shutter thousands of rural post offices — dozens of them in Nevada — opting instead to reduce hours and make other changes to preserve service in those areas.

Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday that he isn't pushing the state Department of Taxation to try to collect the real property transfer tax from the two largest national mortgage corporations, because he doesn't think a single federal court...

Gov. Brian Sandoval announced plans Tuesday to take over operation of the state's local workforce investment boards, just a week after auditors criticized the boards for using too much money for administrative costs.

Ron Paul supporters effectively crushed Mitt Romney backers at the state Republican Party Convention this weekend.

Because of an editing error, a Saturday story about the City Center Project erroneously stated that supervisors have the authority to raise the sales tax rate by one-half of a cent without a vote of the people. The correct figure is one-eighth of a cent.

Finding themselves deadlocked in their vote to fill the vacant seat on the Carson City Open Space Committee, officials resorted to a less-than-official way to break the impasse: drawing from a hat.

Despite a federal court ruling in Michigan, the Nevada Department of Taxation says that it won't direct county officials to start collecting the real property transfer tax on foreclosed homes transferred to the two federally sanctioned corporations...