University Medical Center defends the $115,200-a-year contract of an influential doctor, but the public hospital can’t document cases he has reviewed.
Investigations
Financial markets were rattled last year when some big banks shut down. But about 15 years ago, lenders across Nevada and the U.S. closed at a rapid clip.
Five employees at the Southern Nevada Water Authority and sister agency Las Vegas Valley Water District cashed out more than $100,000 in sick and vacation leave pay in 2022.
The Henderson City Council will decide whether to impose additional record fees on April 16, but experts say the fees can be a barrier to disclosure.
The FBI is investigating whether state Sen. Dina Neal used her influence to secure federal money for a friend.
Investigative reporter Mary Hynes broke stories about a potentially fatal fungal infection and a holiday trip to the beach by school district personnel in 2023.
Thuan Luu added the Review-Journal to an ongoing defamation case he filed against a therapist and his estranged wife.
Henderson has agreed to pay the Review-Journal $20,000 in legal fees after a judge sided with the newspaper in a dispute over video from the city jail.
Some of Detective Kevin LaPeer’s fellow officers accused him of hurling a racial slur and urging the killing of Mexicans and Black Lives Matter protesters.
Teacher shortages prompt the district to spend $159,000 on recruitment trips, but it doesn’t track how many teachers are hired as a result of the travel.
Government employees’ salaries are routinely requested public records, but the Lyon County School District denied access to that information earlier this year.
Frail patients are discharged to unregulated facilities or sent home in the middle of the night in ride-hailing vehicles without a guardian or caregiver first being notified, records show.
Candida auris cases have reached their highest levels, months after Nevada’s congressional delegation called for a better plan for fighting the fungus.
During its board meeting, the federal agency repeatedly cited a Review-Journal investigation of the practice of reducing speeding tickets to parking violations.
The daughter of former Gov. Steve Sisolak and some of her colleagues are accused of creating an anti-police environment in a county office that represents indigent criminal defendants.