The drive-thru coronavirus testing site at Texas Station is relocating indoors next week to Cashman Center, ending a roughly monthlong operation at the hotel-casino’s parking garage.
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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.
The agency overseeing the regional response to the coronavirus pandemic is scrambling to locate places for tens of thousands of students to learn outside the home as the school district prepares for virtual instruction.
A leading doctor of the White House Coronavirus Task Force reportedly warned state and local officials that Las Vegas should take “aggressive” steps to address a rising number of cases.
The Clark County Commission gave the green light to a magician who wants to perform with three tigers under a massive tent on the Las Vegas Strip for a six-month run.
A magician has a plan for a vacant plot on the Las Vegas Strip: Erect a 13,000-square-foot tent to perform with three tigers.
NV Energy announced on Monday plans to construct two major transmission lines throughout the state to access new renewable energy resources.
Under an ordinance to be introduced by the county commission on Tuesday, it would be illegal to refuse to either rent, negotiate or make available a property to someone based solely on their source of income or if they were previously evicted for reasons caused by the pandemic.
The county is working to determine if additional closures or restrictions are necessary after Nevada was named a coronavirus “red zone” in a White House report.
The House is expected to vote next week on the Great American Outdoors Act, which will fully fund the Land Water Conservation Fund and carve a significant dent into a $12 billion maintenance backlog at national parks.
The city said that small businesses could soon apply for emergency grant funding to help offset the costs of abiding by public health guidelines during the pandemic.
Las Vegas Fire Chief William McDonald, who recently announced he will resign in August, has accepted the same position in Alameda County in Northern California.
Small businesses in unincorporated Clark County may be eligible for up to $10,000 in grant funding to cover overdue rent and as much as $5,000 in reimbursements for costs to comply with public health guidelines amid the pandemic.
Las Vegas Fire Chief William McDonald recently notified the city that he plans to resign early next month after seven years at the helm of the department.
The Las Vegas City Council is on the verge of finalizing a deal that will allow the construction of the city’s first urban central park.
Las Vegas City Manager Scott Adams says he will retire in November after three years as the city’s top administrator and more than four decades in local government.
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