Over the past two years, the union and county management have worked to find common ground on almost every issue but money. While the size of annual pay raises and the length of a new contract were major points of ...
Decades ago, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's father would spend his nights tending bar in the back of Las Vegas casino banquet halls, similar to the one his son stood at the front of ...
Nine hours after President Barack Obama designated 700,000 acres in central Nevada for protection as a national monument under the Antiquities Act, Rep. Cresent Hardy ...
The Henderson City Council is taking the weekend to digest two days worth of presentations and interviews with six candidates vying to be the next city manager. It will ...
Nuclear safety advocates are sounding the alarm about the risks of a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to dismantle a mobile radiation detection laboratory stationed in Las Vegas and move it to ...
North Las Vegas City Attorney Sandra Douglass Morgan is jumping into the race to unseat embattled North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Catherine Ramsey in a recall election. The news initially ...
The Henderson City Council has named the six candidates who are vying to be its next city manager. The vetting process starts today at 1:15 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall, 240 S. Water St., when each candidate will have a half-hour to present their respective vision for the city and plans for the first 100 days in office. That will ...
The Rat Pack is getting back together. In a reunion that harkens back to the early days of the Las Vegas Strip, Clark County Commissioners today approved changing the street name on ...
Disruptors, start your engines: Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft are recruiting drivers in Las Vegas in anticipation of their launch later this summer. Lyft has blanketed social media and ...
A long-running and bitter feud between two of the valley's most politically powerful entities has resurfaced in efforts to halt a proposed water fountain at ...
The Las Vegas City Council decided today to tackle a technically complicated and politically charged issue that has vexed state and local officials in Nevada for years — how to regulate slot machine gaming in bars. The decision arose ...
Henderson announced six finalists today in its search for a new city manager, including two city employees, two Las Vegas municipal employees and two candidates from ...
Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em, because starting Wednesday the tax on a pack of cigarettes in Nevada will be going up by $1. The price bump comes by way of a tax increase passed by the Legislature that will take the excise tariff on each pack of cigarettes from 80 cents to $1.80. The cigarette tax is expected to generate an additional $192 million in revenue over two years as part of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s recently approved $1.1 billion tax package to increase K-12 education funding. The tax hike ...
In an unlikely indicator of the valley's continued economic rebound, the number of stagnant, mosquito-infested green pools around Clark County has dropped significantly for the second year in a row, according to numbers released today ...
During intense storms, there still are parts of town where floods submerge streets. Clark County Regional Flood Control District has spent $1.7 billion building a ...
Uber has regulatory hurdles to clear before it can go full throttle in Las Vegas
Sunday, June 28, 2015
After a thwarted launch last year and four months of intense lobbying at the Nevada Legislature, Uber now can legally operate its ride-hailing service in Nevada, thanks to a pair of laws signed last month ...
With monsoon season starting next week, local leaders have a simple message for residents: If you see floodwaters, stay away. “Each one of us and you, too, need to think and act responsibly,” Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said. “It’s up to each one of us that ...
Not a single gram of marijuana has been sold by any Nevada dispensary, despite it being two years since the Legislature approved a system of growing facilities and ...
A new $6 annual fee approved by the North Las Vegas City Council and added to residents’ water bills aims to raise nearly half a million dollars a year to pay for four new graffiti abatement staffers and upgraded equipment. The investment is worth it, Blackburn said, as the estimated 18,000 graffiti reports the city receives each year cause more than $2 million in property damage ...
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee emphatically denied viewing child pornography on his iPad and said he was trying to catch a "bad person" when he turned the device over to police for investigation last fall. "I just want to ...
Clark County commissioners are considering new rules meant to curb a pair of neighborhood nuisances — door-to-door solicitors and garbage dumpsters in streets ...
With the 2015 Legislature in the books, local governments and agencies are beginning to take stock of how they’ll be affected by new laws. Here’s a look at several issues local governments say ...
It's been two years since the Legislature approved a new law establishing a system of dispensaries and growing facilities to make medical marijuana more ...
The Las Vegas City Council is temporarily putting a hold on new package liquor licenses while it studies whether parts of the city are oversaturated with alcohol retailers. The number of licenses for package stores has been ...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will visit Las Vegas later this month to discuss Latino issues at a national conference for elected and ...
Six hundred feet down an elevator shaft near the shore of Lake Mead, the weight of Las Vegas’ future rests on a 19,000-pound plug at the mouth of a three-mile tunnel. The plug ...
As part of a continued effort to clean up Fremont Street that already has included a ban on glass containers and restrictions on package liquor sales, Las Vegas now is turning ...
Dozens of taxi drivers parked their cabs and instead took to the Las Vegas Strip sidewalk today to protest the arrival of Uber and the disastrous effect drivers said it would have on their livelihoods. The demonstration ...
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio didn't come away with any birthday presents during a visit today to the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in downtown Las Vegas, but he did get an endorsement from ...
The field of Democratic candidates running to take back Nevada’s 4th Congressional District next year continues to grow. Las Vegas education advocate Susie Lee announced today ...
Less than six months after Clark County commissioners passed sweeping new rules targeting so-called slot parlors, popular tavern chain Dotty's is under scrutiny again over ...
The Henderson City Council will vote tonight on a four-month ban to prevent new massage parlors from opening and give staff time to craft new rules to crack down on ...
Nevada Legislature weighing whether savings created by reform would outweigh costs
Monday, May 18, 2015
In the view of many, Nevada’s pension system for public employees is in relatively good health, with a sound plan to pay off its $12.5 billion unfunded liability while still maintaining the benefits it currently provides. But to others ...
In another sign of Las Vegas' growing importance in the 2016 presidential election, Republican hopefuls Jeb Bush and Ben Carson both stopped by the city in overlapping events ...
Sen. Patricia Farley, R-Las Vegas, said a recent fact-finding trip to Colorado for a look at that state's marijuana industry "really opened my mind." What she discovered included ...
In the 12 years since John Fudenberg joined the Clark County Coroner's Office, he's learned that the job involves a lot more than investigating deaths. It's also about ...
About 75 percent of Southern Nevadans want Uber, according to a survey conducted by the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance. The finding was just one of several previewed by the LVGEA today from a survey that will be released in full on May 19 ...
A group of federal and local leaders gathered in downtown Las Vegas today to discuss something that hasn't been seen in the region for 18 years: a passenger rail service to ferry riders back and forth between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. "I think the market is there. The will is there. The potential partnership is there," said Rep. Dina Titus ...
With the flip of a switch, two new traffic signals were activated along Las Vegas Boulevard today, making it safer for pedestrians crossing the street to get to the ...
Many questions but few concrete answers emerged today as Clark County commissioners probed what they called "frightening" and "appalling" abuses in the private guardian system intended to ...
Ride-sharing company Uber hit an unexpected roadblock in its bid to launch in Nevada when the Senate failed to pass a bill Wednesday that would allow the company to ...
Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony lost his campaign for mayor against incumbent Carolyn Goodman last week, and today he lost his post as her second-in-command on the council. After briefly thanking Anthony for ...
Speaking before a standing-room-only crowd at the Desert Vista Community Center, the Kentucky senator laid out a vision for the country focused on individual freedoms and liberty that has won him a fervent base of support among libertarians while also ...
Six congressmen, including two from Nevada, made the long trek 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas today to visit Yucca Mountain for a fact-finding trip, in the process stirring up ...
Las Vegas will have four more years of Goodman after Mayor Carolyn Goodman cruised to re-election Tuesday night over challenger Stavros Anthony, stretching her family's hold on the office to a fifth term ...
Incumbents throughout the Las Vegas Valley coasted to re-election in today's municipal primary elections, beating out challengers thanks to low turnout and name recognition ...
Clark County commissioners got a look today at the early results of a decision in September to ban glass bottles and containers from Las Vegas Strip sidewalks. So far ...
Election day has arrived and all eyes are on the race for Las Vegas mayor, where incumbent Carolyn Goodman is looking to win a second term while fending off ...