The Las Vegas City Council decided Wednesday it will appoint outgoing City Attorney Brad Jerbic’s replacement from within City Hall. Jerbic said he believed the lone applicant would be Bryan Scott.
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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.
Nearly 60 percent of households in Clark County have filled out U.S. Census forms, which is on par with the current national average. But the remaining 40 percent could cost the region in lost federal funds.
Clark County Commissioners used cuts to programs from police to capital improvements, rainy day funds and concessions from employees.
Las Vegas City Attorney Brad Jerbic — who is leaving on July 1 — has served under three mayors and dozens of council members.
The city of Las Vegas and National Atomic Testing Museum could enter into exclusive negotiations next week on city-owned land in Symphony Park, which would be the first formal move toward relocating the museum from its present location near UNLV.
Ten drive-thru coronavirus testing sites will be opening in Walmart parking lots across Nevada beginning Monday, the city of Las Vegas said Thursday.
Las Vegas City Councilwoman Victoria Seaman announced Thursday the launch of Project Memorial.
Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft is being challenged by former county treasurer candidate Ken O’Sullivan for the District A seat.
Six Democratic candidates are running for the Clark County Commission in District C, the seat held since 2009 by term-limited Commissioner Larry Brown, a former Las Vegas city councilman.
Seven Democratic candidates are running for the Clark County Commission in District D, the seat held since 2007 by term-limited Commissioner Lawrence Weekly, a former Las Vegas city councilman.
Restaurants and retail businesses in downtown Las Vegas that are operating under the first two phases of state orders on reopening may extend operations to the sidewalk, the city said Thursday.
Clark County’s chief election official, Joe Gloria, will host a virtual town hall Thursday to discuss the state’s mail ballot-only primary election.
Of the 5,000-plus confirmed coronavirus cases thus far in Clark County, about 27 percent have been identified as Hispanic, the ethnicity group hardest struck by the disease, local officials said Wednesday.
Clark County officials broke ground Tuesday on a championship pickleball tournament complex expected to open by next spring at Sunset Park.
The Las Vegas City Council scrapped a proposed $21,000-per-month contract this week with a law firm that represented Ammon Bundy and had been considered to defend the city in all litigation related to the defunct Badlands golf course.
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