A 2025 report by the Guinn Center for Policy Priorities found that since 2018, Nevada’s two marijuana taxes have raised ...

Nevada stations brace for impact as Senate advances bill clawing back public media funding. Read more from The Nevada ...

The largest share, at more than 27% of the state’s population, or nearly 870,000 people, were born in Nevada. California-born ...

Why planting more trees may not be the ‘silver bullet’ to combat extreme heat in Las Vegas. Read more from The Nevada ...

The announcement comes after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent to states.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee says selling off public lands will solve the West’s housing crisis. Past sales show otherwise. Read more ...

Social media can be an ugly place. But then again, so can politics. No wonder the obsessively online world of political discourse resembles the ramblings of basement-dwelling trolls more than an ...

For the safety — in every sense of the word — of all Nevadans, it’s time to modernize how we celebrate Independence Day. Unlike many of our national “traditions,” such as the national anthem and ...

'Are we subsidizing ICE?:’ Nye County, ICE part ways over negative audit, sparse funding. Read more from The Nevada Independent.

The Nevada Independent is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news and opinion website founded in 2017 by veteran political journalist and commentator Jon Ralston. The site and its supporting channels are ...

Maverick Gaming, which owns five casinos in rural Nevada, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, listing between $100 million and $500 million in liabilities. For now, the Nevada ...

You’d think a person who takes such pride in not paying taxes wouldn’t have blown this one, and yet here we are. On the way to fudging the math necessary to defend the border against marauding produce ...