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 ...

Students say Nevada schools rank low because youth aren’t engaged. Here’s their solution. Read more from The Nevada ...

Los Angeles’ longitude is -118.18 degrees, meaning six state capitals lie west of the city. Those state capitals are Carson ...

Nevada has a tax rate of 10% on recreational marijuana retail sales, which is lower than the other western states the report ...

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

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

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

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 ...

While national debates rage over immigration policy, few Americans feel the impact as directly as Nevadans. In a state where tourism, hospitality, agriculture and construction are lifelines of the ...

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 ...

Washoe County Commission Chair Alexis Hill, a Democrat, told The Nevada Independen t on Monday that she plans to formally launch a run for governor in the coming weeks. The surprising development ...