The Healthy Start program targeted at-risk communities in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, providing support before and during pregnancy and up to two years after childbirth.
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Clark County is paying more to help foster children with disabilities in response to Nevada Medicaid diminishing a longtime funding stream.
A Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority report accuses a board member of “possible abuse of power, fraud, and embezzlement” of the housing choice voucher program.
The expected cost of a pair of proposed Las Vegas monorail extensions increased by $62 million over the original estimate, Clark County Commissioners learned Tuesday.
The change addresses concerns over less strict standards with so-called microhospitals.
Center for Biological Diversity says it will seek federal endangered species protection for the white-margined beardtongue in an effort to block Clark County plan to open roughly 40,000 acres of federal land to development.
Billing itself as “the largest community-based population health study in the world,” the Healthy Nevada Project research project already has enrolled more than 35,000 volunteers since it launched in Washoe County in late 2016.
Some Clark County commissioners have voiced general support for considering firearm restrictions on the Las Vegas Strip if Nevada lawmakers give them the power to create stricter gun laws.
The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority has hired an outside human resources firm to investigate the agency’s executive director, according to two housing authority commissioners.
Nevada stands to lose nearly $170 million in federal funding for healthcare and child welfare programs over the next decade if even 1 percent of state residents don’t participate in next year’s census, state officials estimate.
Robert Kern, a lawyer representing the company, said he would appeal the Labor Commissioner’s decision, arguing that the agency’s conclusions were improper on at least two fronts.
The Clark County Commission Wednesday rejected a developer’s request to approve a preliminary plan for 3,000 homes overlooking Red Rock Canyon before a federal agency grants permission for a roadway leading to the site.
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.
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.
