While in Stockholm, Samuel Ingalls paused at the sight of passengers swiping passes and phones to board a subway. The technology looked familiar. Then he realized — a similar device to read passes was at McCarran International Airport.
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The culinary union is widely recognized for its ability to mobilize its more than 57,000 members to propel political candidates into office.
An audit last month found that CEO Rossi Ralenkotter used $17,152 in Southwest Airlines cards for personal travel and Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly, who chairs the board, also used $699 in cards for a trip.
David Gardner, who sponsored the Clark County School District reorganization bill in 2015, is suspending his campaign to become a school board trustee to take a job as senior deputy in the Nevada attorney general’s office.
The last three years have been Clark County’s best when it comes to visitation levels. The coming Las Vegas Stadium should make future numbers even better, according to a new Moody’s Investor Service report.
A state audit on Wednesday uncovered a slew of problems at taxpayer-funded foster homes, a youth mental hospital and a juvenile correctional center, including unsafe medication management and weak training policies.
Clark County commissioners appeared frustrated Tuesday when representatives of WestCare, a national nonprofit addiction treatment group threatening to close its Las Vegas clinic, couldn’t answer questions about funding and care.
The Environmental Protection Agency designation could lead to stripping of federal highway money and takeover of local clean-air programs by the EPA, but local official says such actions are a long way off.
The long list of items that would be banned includes torches, bricks, knives, ice picks, shields and nunchucks. Stun guns and pepper spray containers large than half-an-ounce are also banned.
Violators of county codes could be fined hundreds of dollars on the spot if the Clark County Commission approves a new law Tuesday.
One of Clark County’s largest unions has endorsed Robert Langford in his campaign to unseat District Attorney Steve Wolfson.
In an effort to fire up voters before the midterm elections, Nevada Democrats have launched a one-stop shop for voter registration, information and volunteer opportunities.
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Wednesday that centers like Las Vegas’ courtyard project make it “easy” for homeless people to access services in one place and can be effective in reducing unsheltered homelessness.
Clark County is putting a Las Vegas Strip safety project back out to bid following a complaint about how workers the project’s first phase were paid.
A national chain of nonprofit treatment centers is threatening to close its clinic for drug addicts and the mentally ill in Las Vegas by the end of May amid a funding dispute with state and Southern Nevada governments and hospitals.
