Instead of approving a bill to increase taxes and fees to pay for homeless services in Clark County, the Legislature last week amended it to require the county and its municipalities to work together for a solution.
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The move to request that federal lawmakers establish three OHV recreation areas drew fierce criticism from an environmental nonprofit due to potential implications for the threatened desert tortoise.
Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom on Monday vowed to hold owners of dilapidated properties accountable as part of a crackdown on neighborhood blight.
A long-disputed proposal to construct 3,000 homes overlooking Red Rock Canyon will return in front of Clark County Commissioners on Wednesday, ushering in a renewed showdown between a developer and an environmental nonprofit.
Clark County has sued an advertised “nude luxury retreat,” alleging its managers are running an unlicensed business out of two adjacent homes on East Harmon Avenue.
A federal judge dismissed the case after a confidential settlement was reached between the Las Vegas Valley Water District and 15 former employees who accused the utility of age discrimination and retaliation.
For years now, a shortage of corrections officers in two Las Vegas Valley detention centers has sent overtime pay soaring and hindered the ability of county officials, saddled with the rising costs, to bankroll more officers in the jails and on the streets.
Young-adults turned out in historic numbers during last year’s midterm election, but that flare appeared to fizzle during Clark County’s 2019 municipal primary.
Clark County commissioners expressed frustration Tuesday about a perceived lack of a unified message at the Nevada Legislature.
On paper, the two-bedroom home is a church. But inside “Zen Temple Las Vegas” on Harmon Avenue, investigators found a dance floor, massage tables, shelves of liquor and rooms divided into a makeshift motel.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Friday appointed the chief of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office to a Clark County District Court seat.
Vehicles zoomed by Wednesday afternoon as people, young and old, visited a makeshift memorial at a Southwest Las Vegas Valley intersection, remembering a 12-year-old boy who was killed this week after being struck by a car crossing the busy road.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak on Tuesday named Jacqueline Bluth, 37, a Las Vegas prosecutor with a dozen years in the Clark County district attorney’s office, to a vacant seat on the District Court in Las Vegas.
Clark County commissioners have upheld plans to build luxury homes at the site of Bonnie Springs Ranch in Red Rock Canyon.
Plans by Clark County to earmark up to $12 million in marijuana fees to address homelessness have evolved from the “housing first” approach outlined when the proposal was approved in January.