A handful of administrators earned $100,000 at College of Southern Nevada in 2022, but the average pay was less than half that.
Investigations
Before leaving CCSD this year, then-Superintendent Jesus Jara gave members of his executive cabinet significant raises, including a pay hike of 40 percent to the chief of police.
The pay ratio of the top boss to the typical employee shot past 100-to-1 at several companies with sizable holdings in Southern Nevada, including casino operators.
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.
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.
A Nevada Department of Transportation worker who helps test employees suspected of on-the-job substance abuse is under investigation for allegedly selling moonshine out of his government vehicle and office in Las Vegas.
Clark County officials are planning to spend taxpayer resources to appeal a court ruling requiring the coroner to release autopsy reports.
An external auditor will make recommendations next month on how to rein in gifts and travel at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority after a Review-Journal investigation into excessive spending.
The names and salaries of 349 state employees, including park rangers and game wardens, are not public to taxpayers who spent $30.1 million last year in wages and benefits for those staffers.
Autopsy reports are public records in Nevada, a Clark County District Court judge ruled Thursday, providing new transparency in cases of suspicious deaths.
Las Vegas Convention Center security officers left their taxpayer-funded posts to drive former Mayor Oscar Goodman across the valley far more often than officials previously disclosed.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s lawyer has received a 7.5 percent salary increase and a 25 percent bonus from the organization’s board of directors.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority hired an accounting firm Tuesday to evaluate its spending policies after a Review-Journal investigation uncovered questionable expenses.
Around 2010, Elko schools halted a longtime practice of hiring retirees and paying them a salary while they collected a pension.
Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, who is charged with policing statements that disclose the income of elected officials, failed to report her own pension income of about $11,000 over the past two years.
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