The bill goes into effect Sunday, and the criminal component will be enforced starting Feb. 1.
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.
More than 550,000 acres in White Pine, Lincoln and Nye counties could be auctioned off this month by the Bureau of Land Management for oil and gas exploration. Local governments, Native American tribes and environmental groups are concerned.
Under the proposed project, the central business office in Henderson would be closed in favor of an expanded four-story facility in Symphony Park.
Developer Sam Cherry said that in shareDOWNTOWN, located on the corner of Casino Center Boulevard and Colorado Avenue, a therapist will visit regularly to meet with tenants.
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The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority decided Thursday that it will not attempt to purchase the Moulin Rouge property on Bonanza Road near Martin Luther King Boulevard in Las Vegas.
The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority Board of Directors approved installing ShotSpotter technology at public and affordable housing properties.
Dillard A. Scott is seeking election to the District D seat on the Clark County Commission, currently represented by term-limited Commissioner Lawrence Weekly.
City officials will address homelessness and public safety, among other things, at a three-hour community forum in Ward 5 on Thursday.
The application deadline for an unpaid, four-year term on the board is Dec. 2. The Clark County Commission will choose a board member on Dec. 17.
The city of Las Vegas could make it a misdemeanor to camp or sleep in public if there are beds available at local homeless shelters.
The sales tax money will be diverted in part to provide an incentive to developer Fisher Brothers.
Two parking garages are expected to open at Symphony Park before the end of the month, a $33 million project that will add more than 1,200 parking spaces to accommodate future development.
The cities of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas will prosecute misdemeanor domestic violence cases without requiring convicted defendants to give up their firearms.
Clark County officials plan to spend $12 million to combat chronic absenteeism and truancy in schools, hoping that increasing classroom attendance will reduce juvenile delinquency.
