Las Vegas City Council candidate Dave Marlon acknowledges he was arrested twice in domestic violence incidents involving his ex-wife, but the addiction recovery specialist denies any wrongdoing.
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.
Two former state lawmakers stepped forward Wednesday as candidates to replace former Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Seroka, whose successor will be chosen by voters in a June 11 special election.
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard called for a “movement of peace” on Monday, describing a future in which the U.S. refrains from ill-conceived “regime-change wars” abroad and instead invests trillions of dollars into causes at home.
Former Nevada education official Marcia Washington will fill the vacancy left in the state Senate by the resignation of Kelvin Atkinson, the ex-Senate majority leader who pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud Monday.
Motorists have been advised to expect delays over the next several months as traffic restrictions accompany $25 million in downtown Las Vegas street improvement projects beginning on Monday.
The park will be closed during construction, which is expected to wrap up in the fall.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s art department and photographer Ben Hager won three awards in the Best of News Design Creative Competition for a project on Route 91 Harvest festival survivors’ tattoos.
Bob Goodman, the Democratic candidate for Nevada governor in 2014 and the state’s former economic development and tourism chief, has died at age 84.
A glitch in a two-year-old bill meant to strengthen campaign finance reporting has actually weakened transparency in eight Nevada cities, the Review-Journal has found.
Nye County Commissioners have demanded that state lawmakers “cease any action” restricting Second Amendment rights in response to the passage of a gun background check law that has also drawn the ire of the county sheriff.
Eleven candidates emerged by a Monday deadline to replace former state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, the former Senate majority leader whose resignation last week created a sudden vacancy in his district.
With first-term Councilman Steve Seroka resigning Monday, the second such blow to Las Vegas leadership in little over a year, council members have again signaled their desire to allow the voters to choose his replacement.
The Clark County Wetlands Park plans to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day on March 16, inviting the public to the county’s most rustic park for free and family-friendly activities.
The city of Las Vegas is inviting the public to tour its new mobile preschool on March 16 as part of an early childhood education campaign.
Clark County will accept applications through noon Monday to replace former Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson. The Commission will fill the vacancy on March 15.
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