Senator Catherine Cortez Masto

Great Basin Institute this week said it has received a $160,000 grant to take the first steps in launching the nation’s only professional recreation trail building school.

Republican Adam Laxalt has early on targeted those who feel angered and afraid, telling them the stakes of next year’s race against Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto are no less than existential.

U.S. senators of both parties at a hearing Tuesday rejected House Democrats’ plans to impose billions of dollars in royalties and other fees on companies that mine for gold, copper, lithium and other minerals on federal lands.

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said Thursday Republicans running against her will do everything that they can to undermine women’s abortion rights.

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto introduced the legislation last month to help prevent wildfires, fund state-of-the-art firefighting equipment and programs and support recovery efforts for communities impacted by fires. 

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin will join Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on a three-day, jobs-focused tour of northern Nevada next week.

Republican Bill Hockstedler of Pahrump filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto.

The University of Nevada, Reno will receive nearly $2.5 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy for critical energy research.

Two bills to expand protections for Nevada public lands on June 16 got a hearing in the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Record-breaking heat and historic drought in the U.S. West are doing little to discourage cities from planning to welcome millions of new residents in the decades ahead.