The Brookings Institution released a study this week with a poor finding for Nevada: The state is last in the amount of federal money it receives per capita. For longtime residents, that may not come as much of a surprise. The state has long been a ÒdonorÓ state, one ...

WASHINGTON — Renegade Tea Party candidate Jon Scott Ashjian could do more to unify the beleaguered Nevada Republican Party than the combined efforts of the partyÕs organizations up and down the state. Ashjian has sent the party into a tizzy by seizing the conservative Tea Party brand and launching a third-party campaign to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Republicans are ...

Everyone agrees that Southern Nevada needs to get rid of the quagga mussels that threaten to ruin Lake Mead, the foreign grasses that fuel wildfires and salt cedars that steal precious water and choke out native wetland vegetation. The problem is that rooting out invasive species is extremely expensive. Just mapping where all the land-based ones are in Clark County ...