Nevada Current

by April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current April 16, 2026 Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo remains significantly better funded than those trying to unseat him this election year. According to his most recent quarterly campaign finance reports, filed Wednesday, the governor raised $2.2 million in contributions during the first three months of the year. An additional $1.5 million was raised by his political action committee, Nevada Way. That brings the incumbent’s campaign war chest to around $13 million.

4:55 Commentary There is one immediate diplomatic outcome that is within reach of all parties if they would only choose to pursue it: a humanitarian corridor through the strait. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images) Despite a fragile United States-Iran ceasefire and marathon peace negotiations in Islamabad over the weekend, the Strait of Hormuz is an ever-increasing bottleneck.

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.

by Dackota York, Nevada Current April 8, 2026 Imagine spending years showing up. You attend meetings. You give input. You sit through presentations that go on too long. You speak anyway. You bring your family. You tell your story. You do exactly what you’re told democracy is supposed to look like. And then, after all of that, someone in Washington decides none of it mattered. That is exactly what’s happening right now. Nevada Republican U.S. Rep.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump continued to escalate his rhetoric against Iran Tuesday, even as some Republicans in Congress began to back away from his declarations, threatening that “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

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, is term limited and cannot run for reelection, leaving an open seat. Three Democrats are vying to succeed him: Deputy State Treasurer Tya Mathis-Coleman, state Assemblymember Joe Dalia, and entrepreneur-turned-educator Jay Maharjan who worked on Obama era initiatives.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s conservative evangelical religious beliefs drew attention even before his confirmation hearings in January 2025. He is a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches – CREC – whose beliefs have been influenced by a 20th-century movement called Christian Reconstructionism. Many CREC leaders call for the implementation of biblical law and a theocratic state structured on Christian patriarchy.

by April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current April 3, 2026 Nevadans are losing millions of dollars each year to cryptocurrency scams, and much of the fraud is aided by the hundreds of largely unregulated “bitcoin ATMs,” state lawmakers heard last week. Crypto kiosks — also called cryptocurrency ATMs or bitcoin ATMs — often look just like bank ATMs and are located in grocery stores, convenience stores and other places where you’d expect to see a traditional ATM.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi is leaving the Department of Justice and will be replaced for now by President Donald Trump’s former personal defense lawyer, the president announced Thursday. “Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country,” the president wrote on social media.

‘God Squad’ exempts entire Gulf of Mexico oil industry from endangered species rules The words “God Squad” do not appear anywhere in the Federal Register notice posted last week, but they sure were implied. Doug Burgum via Linkedin “The Endangered Species Committee will meet regarding an Endangered Species Act exemption for Gulf of America Oil and Gas Activities,” said the announcement from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. You may […]