The Las Vegas City Council said it will listen to retail electricity offers from NV Energy and Texas-based Tenaska Power Services Co. on April 3.
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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.
Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Seroka, the first-term policymaker who had been facing an intense recall effort , resigned Monday.
Murmurs that the most centrally located senior center in Las Vegas might cut back programs offered to the 50-and-over population have raised concerns among those who view the facility as a second home.
The city of Las Vegas is considering leaving NV Energy for an alternative power provider, setting the stage for it to potentially join a recent exodus from the utility monopoly .
Many of the Pioneer Trail’s points of interest sit squarely in the Historic Westside, the pulse of the city’s African-American community.
The Clark County Commission has approved a $100,000 settlement with a woman who sued for negligence and wrongful death in the 2016 killing of her 3-year-old granddaughter, contending that county child welfare officials botched the handling of an open case.
For years, Las Vegas officials interacted with the community on Twitter using the #VegasChat hashtag.
Trigono Hills Park is expected to open late this year or in early 2020, city officials said.
Three former employees of the historic Moulin Rouge recall their time at the interracial resort during its brief heyday in 1955.
When the El Cid Hotel caught fire in mid-December, a police sergeant witnessed individuals jumping out of windows and upward of 50 homeless people living in the ramshackle downtown building.
A new Marriott convention hotel for Symphony Park has been approved by Las Vegas leaders, drawing a $95 million investment to an integral downtown development with the promise of jobs.
Its denial will leave multifamily residential and mixed-use developments under the same rules that broadly govern vacation rentals throughout the city.
A plan will move forward to build 20 high-end homes on the site of a replica Old West town nestled at the foot of Red Rock Canyon west of Las Vegas.
As cities across the U.S. wrangle with the emerging ride-sharing business, Clark County officials say they are not quite ready to embrace electric scooters — even as a pilot program.
Newly sworn-in Clark County Commissioners Justin Jones and Michael Naft plan on Feb. 26 to meet informally with residents in Spring Valley to understand key issues facing the growing southwestern Las Vegas Valley and rural communities.
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