Clark County will recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the same day as Columbus Day, but won’t replace the traditional holiday.
Shea Johnson
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Shea joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018 to cover City Hall and Clark County. He previously spent six years at the Desert Dispatch and Daily Press newspapers located in the High Desert of Southern California, where he covered politics at city, county and state levels. Shea has won three California Newspaper Publishers Association awards for his work. In 2018 he was a California Journalism Awards finalist for investigative reporting. He is an unapologetic Chicago sports fan, excluding only the White Sox.
A recent series of shootings and assaults on the Strip have worried the elected officials who oversee the tourist corridor. Police say increased efforts to quell it are working.
After a sexually explicit video of a Las Vegas firefighter started circulating within the city’s Fire Department in June 2018, she sued the city over how it responded.
The demolition of the Wee Kirk Las Vegas Wedding Chapel over the weekend seemed to catch many by surprise.
The city of Las Vegas has embarked on a year-long pilot program intended to address a serious dilemma for homeless people after they are released from a hospital: Where do they go to heal?
The ceremony will mark the third year Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has read the names of the victims at the healing garden downtown.
Non-Democrats running for Clark County Commission say they believe there is potential for fraud in the November election.
The state’s Democratic Party chairman will face off against a former Las Vegas fire chief, seeking to replace Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly in District D.
Unlike three other Clark County Commission races, the contest for District C is pitting two candidates against each other who hold political experience.
Marilyn Kirkpatrick, the Democratic chairwoman of the Clark County Commission, faces a Republican and third-party challenger to her quest for a second full term in District B.
Both candidates battling it out to be Clark County Commissioner for District A, including the incumbent, are similar in at least one way: Neither has been elected to the office before.
Clark County officials will allow 250 people to attend the 1 October Sunrise Remembrance on Thursday morning, to echo the governor’s easing of a statewide limit on crowd size.
Las Vegas will pause to remember the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history during events to observe the third anniversary of the Oct. 1, 2017, attack.
Officials are urging the public to watch the 1 October Sunrise Remembrance ceremony remotely this year, in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
The pipeline would transport 86,000 acre-feet each year from the Colorado River to Washington County in Utah. Opponents say it will be a drain on the river’s water supply.
