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The Las Vegas City Council has spent years trying to entice a professional soccer team to Cashman Field, and next week will vote on a stadium lease agreement for a United Soccer League team to begin play in 2018.
Local government entities spent just over $3.75 million lobbying Nevada lawmakers in the just-concluded 2017 legislative session, a report released Wednesday by the Nevada Department of Taxation shows.
Las Vegas Planning Commissioner Cedric Crear made official on Tuesday his plans to run for the Ward 5 City Council seat, nearly two years before the next election cycle.
Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony filed to run for Congress Monday, with eyes towards unseating freshman Democrat Ruben Kihuen.
After five years of the same six councilmembers, Las Vegas’ lot of local lawmakers will be reshaped this month. Term-limited Councilman Steve Ross has served the 12-year maximum, and Councilman Bob Beers lost his re-election bid last month.
On Thursday, the city of Las Vegas, in partnership with American Medical Response and the Adam’s Heart organization, placed the city’s first defibrillators at Bettye Wilson Soccer Complex.
One recession brought Betsy Fretwell in Las Vegas 26 years ago, and a different downturn dealt her one of the toughest challenges in her time here.
If licensing proceedings for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada’s Nye County, arguments will be based on arcane computer models of what might or might not happen over a million years.
Recently ousted Las Vegas judge Heidi Almase sent out mailers this week apologizing for a negative flyer her campaign sent out criticizing criminal defense attorneys while she was running for re-election.
A development plan that would convert the Badlands golf course into houses and condominiums might be up in flames after a fiery Las Vegas City Council meeting Wednesday night.
Wednesday’s marathon Las Vegas City Council meeting acted as a sendoff for City Manager Betsy Fretwell and Councilmen Bob Beers and Steve Ross.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday voted 4-3 in favor of passing new regulations for short-term rentals in its borders.
Keeping its century old skull-and-propeller shoulder patch for its pilots and ground crew, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School reactivated the 6th Weapons Squadron on Tuesday at Nellis Air Force Base as a new home for F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighter jets.
For the better part of a decade, Las Vegas Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian has wanted new rules governing short-term residential rentals in the city.