The City Council’s decision comes after a Nevada Supreme Court ruling that stated those who are accused of misdemeanor domestic violence are entitled to a jury trial.
Blake Apgar
Blake Apgar joined the Review-Journal as a general assignment reporter in January 2017 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. He interned at the Review-Journal in the summer of 2016, and now covers North Las Vegas and Henderson government. He was raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The project, to be located at Mission Drive and Horizon Ridge Parkway, has received pushback from neighbors who complain it is too large for the area.
A proposed assisted living facility that would occupy a vacant lot at Mission Drive and Horizon Ridge Parkway is too large for the area, neighbors say.
A concept plan submitted to Henderson shows a container park planned for the parking lot of a Henderson Walmart store, part of an initiative to revamp company land.
Henderson and North Las Vegas have introduced ordinances that would allow them to sidestep a state law requiring domestic abusers to be barred from having guns.
Robbie Pettingill, a 13-year veteran of the Henderson Fire Department, died by suicide on Sept. 17. Officials are taking the opportunity to talk about mental health.
Nevada Rep. Dina Titus spoke at a Las Vegas dispensary Monday to acknowledge the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a bill to let cannabis companies use banks and credit unions.
North Las Vegas police have a new assistant chief, the city announced Monday. Jacqueline Gravatt will take over the position.
Janet Garcia-Legrand, who is set to go on trial in Florida next month, confirmed to the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday that she is the CEO of project developer Bleutech Park Properties.
The city of North Las Vegas pulled an agenda item from its agenda that would have authorized hiring a law firm to sue electric car company Faraday Future for breach of contract.
Richard Zeitlin’s companies raised millions of dollars for nonprofit charities and PACs, but spent little on their causes, according to a report published Thursday.
Scores of people gathered at North Las Vegas’ Desert Horizons Park Thursday night to remember Paula Davis, the 19-year-old UNLV student whose body was found last week.
Fall landscape watering restrictions went into effect on Sunday and run through Oct. 31, meaning residents can be fined if they water too much.
Developers took the first step in transforming the historic Black Mountain Golf and Country Club into a development with 1,800 homes. They face opposition from neighbors.
Deep Isolation wants to drill holes thousands of feet into the ground and fill them with nuclear waste. It’s a seemingly simple solution to a decades-long problem.