Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Thursday that his challenger’s proposal to do away with the Clark County School District Police Department is a “failed idea.”
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Residents of Sunrise Manor and Whitney are gauging interest in incorporating the adjacent townships into a single city.
Opponents have successfully stopped a city of Las Vegas effort to absorb 872 acres of unincorporated Clark County land.
Clark County residents who have spent the past couple months fighting a city of Las Vegas plan to annex more than 1,500 properties delivered more than 1,200 protests to City Hall this week, but the fight won’t end there.
Tim Bedwell, a candidate for Clark County sheriff, on Wednesday called for Las Vegas officers to police county schools instead of a separate school district police department.
The union said the endorsement came on the heels of a candidate forum, where members met with gubernatorial candidates.
It marks the sixth year in a row that Nevada’s most populous county has seen an increase in residents, but county data shows recent growth remains a fraction of what it was before the Great Recession.
The Clark County Commission has authority to seek North Las Vegas Constable Robert Eliason’s ouster from office, according to an opinion issued this month by Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt.
Starting in early April, crews will begin back-filling at least 40 mine shafts at a long-abandoned gypsum mine on county-owned land near Fort Apache and Warm Springs roads.
Nearly 1,600 property owners are eligible to claim (extra) money the county collected to repay bonds for infrastructure improvements in and around the Arizona border town, according to the Laughlin Economic Development Corporation.
Clark County has stopped releasing autopsy reports for all 58 victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, despite a district judge’s ruling that the reports are public records.
Clark County will issue as much as $400 million in bonds over the next two years to help pay for the expansion and renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Raiders President Marc Badain will be a “special guest” for a Feb. 27 private fundraiser in Las Vegas for Clark County Commission President Steve Sisolak’s gubernatorial campaign, according to a source with knowledge of the event.
It’s not quite Noah’s Ark, but Springs Preserve is gradually becoming an urban lifeboat for some of the Mojave Desert’s most threatened species.
D’Andre Burnett has attended six schools since the sixth grade, and he is not alone. More than one-quarter of students in the school district change schools at some point during the year, posing a difficult challenge for educators.