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U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced an expansion of the Obama Administration's Home Affordable Refinance Program to include participation by borrowers who are current but up to 125 percent underwater on their mortgage.

In this June 4, 2009, file photo, Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

A 32,699-acre tract of western Amargosa Valley, just east of U.S. Ecology, is one of 24 solar energy zones in the Southwest that will receive intense scrutiny for a fast track environmental analysis.

Newly sworn in U.S. citizens wave flags Thursday. U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services and the city of Las Vegas welcomed more than 100 Las Vegas-area residents as new citizens during a Thursday swearing-in ceremony at Las Vegas City Hall.

The clogged tourist travel route between Southern California and Las Vegas has been designated a federal high-speed rail corridor, in a move that officials hope would signal increased cooperation between the regions on building speedier train travel.

Big Question, July 1: Will Franken's victory make a substantial impact on the Senate, or is 60 seats more of a symbolic threshold? July 1st, 2009 a oeMost Americans dona t understand the arcane rules of the United States Senate.

Curtis McCall, left, of solar light company Tytre Inc. speaks with Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., at an alternative energy fair at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve on Tuesday.

More than a month after he was sent there with a minor infection that turned into a staph infection, West Virginia's elder statesman, Sen.

With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation's governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill.

The federal government's top land steward said Monday that the United States will fast-track efforts to build solar power generating facilities on public space in six Western states.

Sen. Harry Reid's re-election campaign announced a new batch of Republican supporters last week, even as controversy swirled around some of those previously announced.

A sign in Ely, Nev., reflects political challenges for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has weak poll numbers but still lacks an opponent for the 2010 election.

Archive of Sun politics stories You know you're at a low point when the only person willing to stand beside you in your time of marital and political strife is Jim Gibbons, the beleaguered Nevada governor who was once accused of assaulting a cocktail waitress, is in the middle of an ugly divorce and has approval ratings below the freezing ...

Charged with reworking the state's renewable energy policy, Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick had one major objective during the recent legislative session: Don't give away the farm, er, the desert.

SPARKS, Nev. -- Republican Sparks Mayor Geno Martini supports U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's re-election after all.

Sen. Kay Hagan this morning told critics to 'stay tuned' to the health care debate in Washington.

I'd say that this is a Sanford-free edition of the polling and political wrap-up, but we have fresh polling data, so that wouldn't be true... SC-Gov: Sanford Should Resign, According to Pair of New Polls Yesterday , we saw Mark Sanford's approval numbers pre-Argentina revelation, and we speculated how far they'd drop.

WASHINGTON According to a U.S. Border Patrol report, illegal immigration in 2008 was at its lowest level since the 1970s.

It seems almost impossible that political insiders and schemers are already talking about a future presidential election just over 100 days into the current administration.

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid continues to line up Republican support for his 2010 re-election bid.