Tuesday’s primary municipal elections drew 55,867 voters, fewer than 10 percent of those who are registered to vote in Clark County.
Las Vegas
How battlefield letters written by Pvt. Kilmer S. Bagley to his family in Minnesota found a home at the Leatherneck Club bar and grill in Las Vegas.
Despite a chorus of calls to put the contract through a competitive bidding process, the Las Vegas City Council approved a decade-long extension to its exclusive franchise agreement with waste hauler Republic Services Wednesday.
Shot of Comet Hale-Bopp hurtling through the evening sky over Red Rock Canyon at 43,000 mph ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and later was sold as a poster at the park’s visitor center.
The city of Las Vegas will search internally for a replacement for City Manager Betsy Fretwell, who is headed for the private sector.
The city of Las Vegas will hold a meeting with concerned trade show organizers whose events will be displaced when Cashman Center facilities are mothballed at the end of the year.
One incumbent Las Vegas municipal judge looks to be well on his way to re-election, while another seems poised for a June runoff.
Michele Fiore and Kelli Ross are the top vote-getters in Las Vegas’ northwestern Ward 6 after Tuesday’s primary election.
Councilman Bob Beers will need to campaign another couple months if he is to keep his Ward 2 seat on the Las Vegas City Council dais.
Stavros Anthony cruised to victory over three challengers on Tuesday, avoiding a June runoff for his Ward 4 seat.
This is the first year that Las Vegas and North Las Vegas have replaced precincts with voting centers for election day.
Voters in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas will not have to travel more than 3½ miles to cast ballots in city elections Tuesday. The two cities are debuting voting centers for Tuesday’s primary elections, aimed at augmenting accessibility for voters.
Candidates in Tuesday’s primary filed campaign finance reports Friday for the nearly three-week reporting period from March 11 to March 31 with the Nevada Secretary of State’s office.
At the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into the “war to end all wars,” the improbable tale of the Army’s 91st “Wild West” Division — a ragtag legion of shopkeepers, cowboys, farmers, miners, Native Americans and immigrant railroad workers who helped change the course of history — demands one more telling.
The Las Vegas City Council next week will consider a new long-term exclusive contract with waste-hauler Republic Services, while state legislators mull a bill that would limit such deals.
