Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Friday was the latest high-profile person to attend the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” but he became the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage.
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s New Markets Tax Credits program encourages investment in traditionally underserved communities by providing developers with a tax credit when they invest in low-income communities. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman called the tax credits “the energizer we have been waiting for.”
President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting.
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.
President-elect Donald Trump is moving ahead with filling key posts in his administration, picking Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for the job of attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo as head of the CIA.
On his eighth day as the president-elect, Donald Trump met with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, flashed a thumbs-up in a photo with boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and got some foreign policy advice from pro skateboarder Billy Rohan, who says the United States could bring about peace by building skate parks around the world.
Businesses should take a wait-and-see approach to prepare for potential changes to federal policies, but investors have a few signals in deciding which direction they want to go, the chair of Nevada State Bank’s investment committee told business owners and others on Thursday in Las Vegas.
Eleven of the 16 new associate superintendents for the Clark County School District are currently assistant chief student achievement officers, a similar position that the district is eliminating as it moves forward in its massive mandated reorganization.
Amazon expects to begin operations by the summer of 2017 out of an 813,120 square-foot fulfillment center that is currently under construction off of North Lamb Boulevard just north of Interstate 15 in North Las Vegas.
Clark County is accepting applications to fill former state Sen. Ruben Kihuen’s vacant District 10 seat. The deadline is noon on Nov. 30.
“The contribution rates are stable and the funded ratio is increasing,” a Public Employees’ Retirement System executive officer says.
If county clerks verify 55,234 valid signatures by Dec. 1, measure would go before the 2017 Legislature.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is facing a challenge from one of her caucus’ frustrated younger members as the party faces another two years in the minority.
Danny Tarkanian filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing newly elected Congresswoman Jacky Rosen of defamation.
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