The Fremont Street Experience on Thursday offered a sneak peek at a $32 million upgrade to its electrified Viva Vision canopy, the largest single video screen in the world, before its official rollout on New Year’s Eve.
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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.
America’s Party 2020, which also coincides with the extravaganza’s 20th anniversary, has a theme of “The Big 20.”
Officials hope to make room for 1,800 more preschool students in the neediest schools by the 2020-21 academic year using an estimated $14 million in new tax revenue.
Owners of the former El Cid Hotel and two other decrepit properties ultimately demolished in downtown Las Vegas have sued the city over the cost of earlier emergency work to keep the buildings safe.
A Las Vegas who paid dues to an HOA that he wasn’t a member of for a decade finally stopped paying, setting off a bitter legal battle that went to the Nevada Supreme Court.
A proposed marijuana dispensary near the upscale community of Summerlin has rattled neighbors and set off a fight over the industry’s emergence into the suburbs.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman said Wednesday that an all-of-the-above approach was needed to deal with the ongoing drought on the Colorado River, but that Nevada’s allocation wasn’t likely to increase.
Muller Construction must also pay $56,000 in administrative penalties after losing its appeal. An attorney says the company will take the matter to state court.
Electronic cigarette use and vaping in Las Vegas parks will not be outlawed for now, although the bill’s sponsor said the issue might be raised again in the future.
The Las Vegas City Council Wednesday granted a six-month license to Mansion 54, the renamed Hartland Mansion downtown, after previous operators ran into a slew of issues since opening last December.
Hunter, the Belgian Malinois patrol dog, was awarded a hero’s medal by the City Council for the K-9’s actions to bring down an armed suspect in October.
The Fremont East nightclub 512 is under scrutiny from Las Vegas city officials for a series of alleged violent incidents that have occurred at the downtown business.
County officials expect a rush of operators seeking to license their mobile billboards after Jan. 1, when the new ordinance is slated to take effect.
The 30-year department veteran will succeed retiring Chief Greg Cassell, who has occupied the role for nearly five years.
When cleaning is in effect, it would be a misdemeanor crime to camp, sleep, lie, sit or otherwise obstruct city efforts to sanitize the sidewalks, under a new proposal.
