A city-created nonprofit corporation will receive $45 million in tax credits that it will use to persuade developers to build projects in low-income areas, including parts of downtown Las Vegas.
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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.
Brian Knudsen and Robin Munier, two veterans of Las Vegas City Hall, are facing off to replace the term-limited Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian.
The Nevada Supreme Court said Friday it will not intervene in or freeze a lawsuit filed against Las Vegas by the developer trying to build homes on the defunct Badlands golf course.
Former Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz and program manager Melissa Clary disagree over how much legislative experience helps as they compete to win the Ward 3 Las Vegas City Council seat.
Funds Clark County received through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act will help James Regional Sports Park, Bunkerville Park in Bunkerville and Hollywood Regional Park.
Auric — a five-story, 324-unit, luxury, mid-rise apartment community — is expected to open in March 2021 in Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas.
The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday to spend nearly $1.8 million generated by marijuana fees to open dozens of new beds for homeless young people and those with medical problems.
The event, expected to give residents a chance to hear from experts in the field, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at the Pearson Community Center.
The Las Vegas City Council on Monday approved a $616 million budget that protects the city from economic downturns, adds cops, but lacks funds to fight homelessness.
“We cannot allow people to start parsing and pointing fingers and creating hierarchies among immigrants,” Harris said during one of two Las Vegas campaign stops Thursday.
The first residential development at the downtown Las Vegas park calls for 324 studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments.
The Las Vegas City Council Wednesday approved a $1-per-year lease of the shuttered Reed Whipple Cultural Center to allow the Neon Museum to expand.
The storied Neon Museum plans to double its size by taking over the vacant Reed Whipple Cultural Center on Las Vegas Boulevard North.
“The City of Las Vegas, The Early Years” will debut for free at the Charleston Heights Art Center on Wednesday.
One candidate, former Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman, has a head start in the race to replace resigned Councilman Steve Seroka, but six other candidates want the job, too.
