Politics & Government

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...

Nevada Employment Security officials say the state now owes the federal government more than $800 million borrowed during the past 21⁄2 years to pay benefits to the jobless.

The Secretary of State's office says 9,500 voters registered in Nevada during April.

Auditors say the Southern Nevada workforce investment board spent twice as much of its federal grant money on administration as its northern counterpart.

CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval, who as a candidate angered Hispanics two years ago when he supported Arizona's tough immigration laws, repeated his stance that a similar law is unnecessary in Nevada, regardless of how the U.S. Supreme...