• Updated

Nevada's top election official is giving the go-ahead to two initiatives for the 2016 ballot: One to allow recreational marijuana use, and the other to tighten background checks for anyone buying guns from private sellers and gun show exhibitors.

  • Updated

A gun rights group wants Nevada's elections chief to throw out a proposed ballot measure to tighten background checks for anyone buying firearms from private sellers or gun show exhibitors.

  • Updated

Following the outbreak of Ebola in western Africa and its appearance in North America, Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller today cautioned investors to beware of opportunistic web-based schemes tied to investments in Ebola-related treatments or cures.

  • Updated

More than 8,000 people registered to vote in Nevada this month before an Oct. 14 deadline to participate in next month's general election.Secretary of State Ross Miller says 2,466 voters registered as Democrats while 2,955 people registered as Republicans in the first two weeks of October.The Nevada Appeal reportsanother 3,202 people registered as nonpartisan voters.A total of 1.4 million voters are registered in Nevada.About 41 percent of those are Democrats and 33 percent are Republicans. A...

  • Updated

Secretary of State Ross Miller touted his work enforcing Nevada election law while his opponent Adam Laxalt pointed to his experience in military law in a debate over who should be Nevada's next attorney general.