The city will have at least two more months to reach a deal to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to a new stadium near downtown, city officials say.
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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 proposed ordinance would set guidelines for how mobile billboards may operate in what some are calling an unprecedented step to address the growing industry.
Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly and a host of community groups organized the annual Thanksgiving turkey giveaway on Tuesday, handing out holiday birds to needy people in District D.
Councilman Brian Knudsen said the idea behind the is to listen to constituents who seek smoke-free parks and to respond to the meteoric rise of vaping among young people.
Q.B. Bush, 88, watched over his family and invested in people, setting up a life for more than six decades in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside.
Las Vegas becomes the latest valley jurisdiction to ban imitation guns in a state where it is legal to carry the real deal unconcealed.
The Las Vegas City Council approved a 74-cent increase to monthly trash fees after China cracked down on its imports of recycled goods.
Negotiations are underway to build 195 affordable senior citizen apartment units northwest of the intersection of Pebble Road and Eastern Avenue.
According to the announcement Friday, the city will use networking equipment donated by Cisco at up to 25 intersections for advanced analytics and connectivity.
The Nevada Museum of Art, Las Vegas, may ultimately find an alternative site via ongoing talks with the city but organizers are also interested in the nearby Clark County government center campus.
A swath of federal land in southeastern Nevada will not be auctioned off as planned after warnings that fracking there could threaten Mesquite’s water supply.
The city-drawn enforcement border has raised questions about whether it will merely shift the crisis to other parts of town.
The partnership will focus on placing children who statistics indicate would otherwise have difficulty finding adoptive homes.
As it mulls relocating its main offices from Henderson, Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada weighs building a four-story medical facility in Symphony Park.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday adopted a controversial proposal that bans people from camping and sleeping in public areas in downtown Las Vegas, and in residential areas throughout the city, if there are beds free at established homeless shelters.
