The Clark County School District will have another set of eyes on its books after a state committee put the cash-strapped public school system on a financial watch list.
Politics and Government
Health care was one five critical policy areas discussed Wednesday at the Southern Nevada Forum, a confab with lawmakers to discuss legislative priorities for 2019.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday are scheduled to vote to appoint a replacement for Justice of the Peace Deborah Lippis, who resigned in September.
The Republican National Committee has chosen a new finance chairman to replace Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino mogul who resigned Saturday after a published report linked him to numerous complaints of sexual misconduct.
The FBI said Wednesday it has “grave concerns” about the accuracy of a classified memo on the Russia investigation that President Donald Trump wants to release to the public. It was the first time the bureau has weighed in publicly on an issue that has openly divided the Justice Department and the White House.
South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy says he will not run for re-election and will “instead be returning to the judicial system.”
A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town on Wednesday.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels, in the midst of a publicity tour fueled by past allegations of a 2006 sexual relationship with a then-married Donald Trump, said in a statement on Tuesday the alleged affair never occurred.
About 50 immigration advocates gathered in southwest Las Vegas to watch President Donald Trump give his first State of the Union speech Tuesday evening.
President Donald Trump urged Congress to lift budget caps to fully fund the military and said he signed an order to keep the military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay open during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday.
A State of the Union speech has historically been a platform for a president to lay out his priorities for the nation, but the event has served to highlight political messages from both the White House and Congress.
President Donald Trump and casino mogul Steve Wynn have been bitter competitors who have bad-mouthed each other, sued each other and poached each other’s top employees in a decades-long faceoff as they jostled to be top dog in the high-stakes casino-friendly Atlantic City.
The Nevada Legislature passed a law in 2015 putting control over firearms, accessories and ammunition in the “exclusive domain of the Legislature,” and renders any contrary law, rule or ordinance “to the contrary null and void.”
With two days to go in the public comment period, the Bureau of Land Management has received only about 120 unique comments on an ongoing update of its blueprint for Southern Nevada.
School presidents presented their 2020-2021 budget wish list items to the state Board of Regents last week, with requests ranging from an $8 million water tank at Nevada State College, to $3.8 million in planning funds to relocate Desert Research Institute’s anchor facility to Henderson.