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If it's dry and cold where you live, work or play, it's winter skin season, but the... Harvey Whittemore, center, cheers for the Nevada basketball team in 2007 with then-U.S. Rep.

There is an effort going on by mining industry lobbyists to stop a proposed constitutional amendment that would, if passed by voters, remove an industry tax loophole from the Nevada Constitution.

The Democrats could not have planned the Republican presidential caucus any better if they actually had planned it .

The legal battle between one of the state's most powerful lobbyists and his business partners reads like a TV mini series.

Don't mistake Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval's invitations to the Republican presidential contenders as anything more than a hospitable gesture.

Tall and tan and young and ...chunky? The Girl From Ipanema has put on a few pounds, and for many... What's at stake: Nevada has 28 delegates to the Republican National Convention.

1: I noticed that President Barack Obama, as he was in October, was met at McCarran International Airport by a receiving line of one: Mayor Carolyn Goodman.

For all the reasons Nevada distinguishes itself among its sister states, here's one that isn't mentioned too often: Nevada is only one of four whose legislative body meets every other year.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Emptying out the reporter's notebook at the end of another eventful week in Nevada, home of the First in the West and First to be Irrelevant Caucus, with the usual dose of incandescent insight and snarky observations: a Loyal to the end: It's easy to mock Gov.

There's a new radio ad for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign airing in Nevada, with endorsements from Lt.