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Las Vegas, North Las Vegas councils OK room tax hikes to fund convention center improvements

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.

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Las Vegas council approves annexing 4,500 acres in northwest

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.

Las Vegas City Council to take aim at regulating party houses

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.

Feds slow to assess health impacts of Camp LeJeune’s toxic water

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.

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