State of Nevada announces settlement with predatory realty company • Nevada Current Hundreds of Nevada homeowners who fell for a predatory title scheme will be freed from those agreements. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford and the Nevada Department of Business and Industry’s Office ...

Under the terms of the settlement announced Friday, all MV Realty agreements in Nevada will now be null and void.

Nevada among nation’s best at administering elections, MIT report finds • Nevada Current Nevada earns high marks when it comes to administering elections, jumping to second best in the nation in the recently published 2024 Elections Performance Index, or EPI.  The EPI, published by the Ma...

Nevada is pretty darn good at administering elections.

Lombardo a no-show at Trump’s ‘no tax on tips’ event in Las Vegas • Nevada Current President Donald Trump came to Las Vegas Thursday to proclaim working Nevadans are better off thanks to his policies, particularly a provision of his giant tax and spending bill that provides a tax de...

Trump came to Las Vegas to proclaim working Nevadans are better off thanks to his policies. But the Trump economy, which has been rocked by his war with Iran and its accompanying $5 a gallon gas, wasn't impressive enough that Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo wanted to bask in it Thursday.

Open Assembly seat in competitive district attracts strong field in Democratic primary • Nevada Current In 2024, Nevada State Assembly District 41 was one of the last races to be called by media outlets, and fewer than 250 votes ended up separating the Democratic incumbent and her challenger. The Southe...

Democratic Assemblymember Sandra Jauregui opted not to run for re-election and is running for lieutenant governor instead. Three Democrats are now vying to succeed her — Vinny Spotleson, Gabriela Wyett, and Spencer Ridenour. #nvleg

"Stupid Things" is by far the best tag on the website aftermath dot site aftermath.site/tag/stupid-t...

Movie star Mark Wahlberg’s new gym in Summerlin opening this winter A new gym in Las Vegas backed by movie star Mark Wahlberg is opening this year

MUNICIPAL GYM. wtf kinda name is that.

Lawsuit: Henderson SWAT raid left home structurally uninhabitable A man whose townhome was severely damaged during a SWAT raid in 2024 has filed a lawsuit against the city of Henderson alleging that police needlessly rendered his home structurally uninhabitable.

This is crazy. 👹 I'd be livid too if this were my house.

Crypto Kiosk Scams, Protecting Ash Meadows, and Pups on a Plane - City Cast Las Vegas Clark County has hundreds of ATMs that exchange cash for cryptocurrency (or "crypto kiosks") and scammers are swindling Nevadans out of millions wi...

Super honored I got to be on CityCast Las Vegas for Sonja Cho Swanson's last episode and new host Jesse Merrick's first!

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INBOX: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alexis Hill is publicly calling on Attorney General Aaron Ford to debate her on May 15.

Some background: nevadacurrent.com/2026/03/23/d...

2.5 million Americans lost food aid in months after passage of GOP megabill, study finds • Nevada Current At least 2.5 million low-income people quickly lost help affording groceries under a Republican-passed law that added new requirements for the nation’s largest nutrition program and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from the federal government to states, according to a study the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published Wednesday. Some 6% […]

“So the incentive structure that’s in place, it really pushes states to make it harder to get onto the program for people who need that assistance.”

story by @fischler.bsky.social

Three vie for seat on Clark County bench  • Nevada Current Justice of the Peace Jessica Goodey, State Bar of Nevada General Counsel Daniel Hooge, and newly appointed Clark County District Judge Pete Thunell are competing for the Dept. 26 seat vacated by retired District Judge Gloria Sturman.  In March, Gov. Joe Lombardo appointed Thunell to the seat after the state’s Judicial Selection Commission nominated Thunell […]

The first of what will be many judicial race stories by @danagentrylv.bsky.social this election year is now live on @nevadacurrent.com 🔗

Democratic primary for state treasurer features assemblymember, deputy treasurer, Obama appointee • Nevada Current The state office best known for overseeing the state’s Millennium Scholarship and unclaimed property programs is set to have a new top boss this year. Nevada State Treasurer Zach Conine, a Democrat, i...

Get to know the three Democrats running for Nevada State Treasurer: Tya Mathis-Coleman, Joe Dalia, and Jay Maharjan. As my editor put it this morning "(in something of an anomaly in political primaries) all of them of appear to be sensible humans."

​​From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans When it comes to estimating the size of demographic groups, Americans rarely get it right. In two recent YouGov polls, we asked respondents to guess the percentage (ranging from 0% to 100%) of America...

To your second point: They ask for estimates of American adults.

Nevada Deaf Commission outlines need to build dedicated school, grow interpreter pipeline • Nevada Current Nevada is 1 of 4 states without a state-funded school for the deaf. One is desperately needed, advocates say, because the lack of a dedicated school puts more pressure on school districts and individu...

Nevada needs a dedicated school for the deaf. #nvleg

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

“All of it essentially is about the state’s ability to decide that a fetus, at any point during a pregnancy, is more important than the person who’s pregnant,” said Rutgers University law professor Kimberly Mutcherson.

Important, horrifying stuff from @propublica.org

Platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram used to be called "social media" but that has been a misnomer for just as long. They're media giants that prefer to be called something else so they neither have to pay nor take responsibility for the content they provide. It's a far more lucrative model.

Oops. My excitement about the episode got the best of me.

I should have referred to him as President Flav. 🇺🇸

My kid's school is having a pop-up coffee bar fundraiser during morning drop off. TAKE MY MONEY! ☕

Should Beyoncé Tickets Be Taxed Higher? Plus, Flavor Flav's Vegas Party Invitation and an Abandoned Goldendoodle's Happy Ending - City Cast Las Vegas A woman abandoned her dog at Harry Reid International Airport, the debate over Live Entertainment Tax heats up, and Flavor Flav invited the U.S. Wo...

Catch me on City Cast Las Vegas talking live entertainment tax, dogs on airplanes, and Flava Flaaaaaaaaaaaav!

Lawmakers feel ‘gaslit’ by governor’s office’s ever-shifting plans to address displaced youth • Nevada Current The State of Nevada’s plans to address the displacement of residential beds for troubled youth has changed — again — and is drawing ire from lawmakers who say the process has not been transparent. Jac...

The State of Nevada’s plans to address the displacement of residential beds for troubled youth has changed — again — and is drawing ire from lawmakers who say the process has not been transparent.

#NVleg #CampusForHope

Students express concern as U.S. Customs and Border Protection set to recruit at CSN career fair The College of Southern Nevada is hosting two upcoming career fairs. But there's now controversy and concern being expressed by some students and staff on campus.

"With immigration enforcement dominating the conversation nationwide, many students are feeling uneasy."

via @ktnv.bsky.social

Nevada lawmakers ponder parity of live entertainment taxes • Nevada Current Tickets to a Beyoncé concert, a UFC match, and a Golden Knights game might all cost an arm and a leg. But the first will cost an arm and a leg plus 9%, the second plus 8%, and the third plus nothing a...

Nevada’s 9% live entertainment tax is charged on tickets to events like music concerts, theatre productions, magic shows, and sporting events. But exemptions to the tax abound. And not all sporting events are treated equally.

#nvleg

Eagle Valley principal's email likely violated student rights, ACLU says - Carson Now Last week, students and families of Eagle Valley Middle School were threatened with truancy and in school suspension (ISS) if they participated in protests alongside other local and regional schools, ...

The issue isn’t that students would receive consequences for truancy — the issue is that additional punishments were being threatened specifically for students who were truant due to engaging in a political protest...

story by @consideratethieves.bsky.social

Biotech firm’s ballot measure would make NV a medical testing ground for bypassing FDA approval • Nevada Current A Las Vegas-based biotech CEO has a vision of Nevada as a hub for medical innovation. And he is hoping voters will help him make it happen. A political action committee titled Freedom to Try Medical I...

A Las Vegas-based biotech CEO has a vision of Nevada as a hub for medical innovation. And he is hoping voters will help him make it happen.

Did Nevada's 2nd congressional district just get interesting? • Nevada Current Since its creation after the 1980 census, only four people have been elected to the U.S. House from Nevada’s second congressional district, none of them Democrats. The closest a Democrat has come in t...

Hmmmm. @nevadacurrent.com editor @jhughjackson.bsky.social is making me rethink my position on Nevada CD2.

I LOVE THE WINTER OLYMPICS.

Judge gives DMV five days to produce communications with ICE, Homeland Security  • Nevada Current Carson City District Judge Kristin Luis says she’s leaning toward imposing civil penalties against the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles for failing to comply with the law in its responses to reques...

“I’m interested to see what comes out and what’s produced to the court,” the judge said. “I have to say, based upon what I’ve reviewed so far, I’m leaning towards a penalty, but I want to see all the records produced.”

story by @danagentrylv.bsky.social / @nevadacurrent.com

Amodei joins ranks of Republican House members who won't seek reelection • Nevada Current Nevada’s lone Congressional Republican, U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, announced he is retiring from Congress at the end of his term.  Amodei has represented the reliably Republican-leaning Congressional Dist...

Can't wait to see who jumps into this race now.

Southern Nevada activists organize ICE response network • Nevada Current The Trump administration’s violent immigration raids in Minneapolis have stirred locals in Southern Nevada to organize their own resistance networks to protect their communities from federal immigrati...

Interest in LV Defensa, a grassroots rapid response network in Nevada, surged in membership by hundreds after federal agents killed two American citizens Minneapolis last month.

"People aren’t afraid to say that ‘this is wrong’ and that ‘I need to fight back,'" an organizer told @nevadacurrent.com