A bitter battle over a proposal to develop the Badlands Golf Club will soon return to the Las Vegas City Council, a fight that has the council caught in its crossfire.
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Las Vegas and North Las Vegas city councils this week approved a .5-percentage point hotel room tax hike to help fund a $1.4 billion expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Henderson council OK’d an ordinance for that increase as well as a half-percentage point tax hike to help pay for a new football stadium.
Continued investment in the UNLV School of Medicine, property tax reform and regionalizing mental health services are among the priorities Southern Nevada lawmakers plan to push for during the 2017 Nevada Legislature session.
After a national search, Ally R. Haynes-Hamblen has been named the new director of the city of Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs.
The city of Las Vegas is renewing its drive to attract a Major League Soccer franchise, voting Wednesday in favor of a contract to market Las Vegas to possible investors for a soccer stadium project.
The city of Las Vegas will grow by roughly 7 square miles, after the City Council on Wednesday approved annexing 4,500 acres of Bureau of Land Management land adjacent to the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument and the Red Rock National Conservation Area.
The average Las Vegas Valley Water District customer will see a monthly bill increase of about 75 cents as a result of rate increase to help improve aging infrastructure.
Las Vegas rocked into 2017 with a massive fireworks display that turned a hazy sky into a kaleidoscope of color as hundreds of thousands of revelers swayed on the Strip to a medley of pop songs.
The city of Las Vegas’ bid for a Major League Soccer franchise was shot down last year, but some city officials are ready to take another shot.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s predecessor — her husband, Oscar — pioneered the personalized poker chip as an alternative to business cards, but she has upped the ante.
Short-term rentals that become “party houses” in neighborhoods near the Strip have been an issue on Las Vegas City Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian’s to-do list for years.
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans regarding site for high-level nuclear waste remain unclear, but his pick for energy secretary endorsed plan to temporarily store it at site in Texas during his governorship.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday agreed to settle a lawsuit with ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft over a per-driver fee the city tried to impose this year.
The city of Las Vegas and Clark County inked an agreement this week to smooth some of the issues the two have squabbled over, including annexations and sewer service.
The federal government has been in no hurry to assess the health impacts of two harmful chemicals found in a water supply that Marine veterans from Camp LeJeune, North Carolina blame on cancer and other maladies.
