A planned development on federally owned land is expected to have a subdivision that will act as off-base housing for Creech and Nellis Air Force base personnel.
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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.
Clark County Commissioners on Tuesday adopted regulations to strengthen enforcement of laws that prohibit short-term home rentals, including fines that will accompany property tax bills.
Las Vegas and Clark County — which run programs at Clark County schools — are planning for what they will do in the event district teachers go on strike starting Sept. 10.
Assemblyman William McCurdy II, the chairman of the Nevada State Democratic Party, will seek to replace term-limited Commissioner Lawrence Weekly in District D in 2020.
The majority of about 60 Ethiopian restaurants, shops and stores in Las Vegas can be found on a roughly two-mile stretch of Decatur.
A Clark County commissioner is proposing a one-eighth percent sales tax instead of the maximum quarter-cent sales tax allowed under Assembly Bill 309.
First Street, from East Clark Avenue to East Bonneville Avenue, will shut down to traffic and pedestrians starting Monday and lasting through February 2021.
An estimated $28.4 million in funding is expected to be available for building projects to fight poverty during the next five years.
North Las Vegas recently provided a 12-month notice to end the contract to house up to 315 of its inmates — mostly men — in the Las Vegas Detention Center.
Proposed at 400 S. Decatur Blvd., the estimated $94.5 million project will fill a “huge need” in the city, Councilwoman Olivia Diaz said.
The disputed request to rename a stretch of road currently named after famed actress and singer Debbie Reynolds will return to the Clark County Planning Commission on Aug. 20.
The Planning Commission agreed that there may be fireworks allowed after games up to six times per year. Neighbors were initially unsure of the proposal’s scope.
The complaint alleged that two children placed by the Department of Family Services into an Oregon home were sexually abused.
Cain is a U.S. Army veteran who did combat duty in the Middle East and later served as a Veterans Services caseworker.
Clark County is warning the public about telephone calls from people who falsely claim to represent the county’s building and fire prevention department.
