With all the bad shit stacking up in the world, it gets harder to sit down and pretend I have something worth saying. The noise is constant now, screens screaming, people arguing with ghosts, wars replayed like reruns nobody asked for. Every headline feels like an effing punch to the ribs, and after a point,…

President Donald J. Trump announced a broad initiative to scale back federal regulations tied to housing construction on Monday, a move the administration says will increase supply and ease affordability pressures for American families. According to the White House, the effort targets what it describes as burdensome federal rules that drive up construction costs, delay…

Nevada’s Democratic congressional delegation is drawing the bulk of its campaign cash from outside the Silver State, according to a review of the latest federal campaign finance data. An analysis of Federal Election Commission filings for the 2023–2024 cycle, compiled by OpenSecrets, shows that a significant majority of individual contributions to Nevada’s Democratic senators and…

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen has signed on to legislation aimed at protecting small businesses from the impact of newly imposed federal tariffs, as legal battles and economic uncertainty continue to ripple across Nevada and the nation. The proposed Small Business Liberation 2.0 Act, introduced by Senate Democrats earlier this month, would exempt qualifying small businesses…

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, Democratic candidate for governor in 2026, is facing formal scrutiny from the Nevada Commission on Ethics after a review panel advanced a complaint alleging misuse of his public office. The complaint, filed by retired Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski, alleges Ford violated multiple provisions of Nevada ethics…

Questions have begun circulating among some Republican voters after longtime Nevada lawmaker James Settelmeyer announced his bid for Congress in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District. Settelmeyer, a Douglas County rancher and fourth-generation Nevadan, entered the race March 6, shortly after U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei announced he would not seek reelection. The open seat has quickly attracted…

Federal land managers have begun a series of horse and burro roundups across Nevada, including a major operation in the Spring Mountains just northwest of Las Vegas. The Bureau of Land Management says 425 horses and 425 burros will be gathered from the Spring Mountains Complex, an area spanning more than 600,000 acres across the…

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) has a new statewide highway safety plan for reducing fatalities and serious injuries on Nevada roadways. The plan serves as a framework to identify the leading causes of deadly and severe crashes by targeting those risks through data-driven strategies. State officials say Nevada aims to reduce fatal and serious…

A minor earthquake shook the area near Silver Peak early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The preliminary 2.2-magnitude tremor struck at 2:23 a.m., with its epicenter located about 21 miles north of Silver Peak at a shallow depth of just 0.02 miles. Seismologists note that this quake is part of a string…

A Clark County District Court judge has sided with the Las Vegas Metro Police after the department refused to release a defendant on an ankle monitor. In a March 13 order, Judge Erika Mendoza backed Metro in its refusal to place Matthew Cordero-Davila on the department’s medium-electronic monitoring program. Cordero-Davila, who pleaded guilty in January…