A class action lawsuit filed against Republic Services on Friday claims the waste-disposal company is illegally overcharging Clark County property owners by placing multiple $60 liens on homes for overdue trash bills.
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Two women and one man have applied to Clark County in hopes of filling Ruben Kihuen’s recently vacated state Senate seat.
State officials have posted the first agenda for what will be known as the Stadium Authority Board and much of the meeting will be dedicated to discussing procedures board members will take as it works to build a new home for the Oakland Raider
Former water officials Robert Coache and Michael E. Johnson were found guilty in connection with a $1.3 million bribery scheme to help a wealthy Bunkerville landowner sell water rights to the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
The Las Vegas Sands Corp. is providing financial help for training Clark County School District leaders as the system goes through an exhaustive reorganization that will roll out in 2017-18.
Nevada has faced a problematic teacher shortage — the most recent state Department of Education numbers indicate over 360 vacancies in Clark County and more than 500 statewide.
State education officials are focused on clearing up what they view as misconceptions about the new Achievement School District that will convert as many as six underperforming schools into charters next year.
Business proposals from reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, candid photographs of alleged mob bosses, paperwork for plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. Those public records and more — the fabric of Clark County’s history — will be at the fingertips of anyone with a computer and internet access as an ongoing initiative by the county clerk’s office comes to fruition.
KIT’s Kitchen in Henderson isn’t just any restaurant — it’s an experimental, not-for-profit eatery designed to help youths gain hospitality industry experience and to serve affordable meals to the community.
Clark County and an Oklahoma City-based chemical company have reached a record settlement related to allegations that the company’s Henderson plant underreported its emissions of pollutants and operated without a proper permit for nearly 20 years.
Las Vegas gun shops are looking for guidance after Nevada voters approved a ballot question extending firearm background check requirements.
Clark County Commission chairman Steve Sisolak is considering a run for governor of Nevada in 2018. If Sisolak does launch a bid, he’ll have an unprecedented head start on campaign fundraising.
The charter takeover issue has turned into a finger-pointing battle between the Clark County School District and the newly-formed Achievement School District.
In a letter Thursday, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller called on the president to “abandon any plans to unilaterally designate” new national monuments in the Gold Butte area of northeastern Clark County and in the Owyhee Canyonlands of southeastern Oregon, near the Nevada border.
A $1.9 million contract was awarded to a team of transit experts who will develop a “high capacity transit plan” aimed at relieving congestion in Southern Nevada, including a light rail route that could connect McCarran International Airport, the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.