Author: Megan Ferrante

By SEAN WHALEY LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL CARSON CITY — Petitions seeking to expand background check requirements for gun purchases and to allow the recreational use of marijuana are sufficient and will be submitted to the...

Initiative petition signatures for recreational marijuana use and tighter background checks for gun buyers have been certified and will appear on ballots in the 2016 election in Nevada if the Nevada Legislature doesn't pass...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — 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...

Advocates of stricter gun laws will ask state lawmakers for new laws aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands of children, the mentally ill and domestic abusers.

As provisions of Initiative 594 kick in today, the first signs of what this legislation means are beginning to show up exactly where the anti-gun proponents insisted they would not: Hunter Education and promoting firearms...