The savings may seem like a drop in the bucket, but the valley’s largest water utility plans to close its offices on Fridays to offset a sharp decline in revenue.
Both sides agree that there’s something huge at stake in the court case pitting the Culinary union against the city of Las Vegas. They just don’t agree on what it is.
On Sunday, Communist North Korea fired a long-range Taepodong-2 missile over Japan, apparently defying a 2006 U.N. Security Council resolution barring the hermit kingdom from firing ballistic missiles.
Construction has resumed at Mira Villa condominiums in Las Vegas with a new general contractor and a commitment from lenders to complete the 113-unit first phase by late summer, a marketing executive said Monday.
The majority owner of the Greek Isles blamed “greedy hedge-fund guys” interested in wiping out the current owners’ equity stake for pushing the property into Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday.
Wow. Tough crowd. As executives of local power company NV Energy made their case Monday for a 16.7 percent increase in residential rates, some of the 100 or so locals attending a 1 p.m. public hearing at the Las Vegas Convention Center couldn’t contain themselves.
MGM Mirage has officially put the company’s resorts in Detroit and Biloxi, Miss., on the market.
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against M Resort, alleging unfair labor practices related to the firing of six security workers late last year.
Experience carried the day in Henderson on Tuesday, as six-term City Councilman Andy Hafen and four-term City Councilman Steve Kirk comfortably advanced in the race for mayor.
Hafen took 37 percent and Kirk took 32 percent of the 16,720 votes cast.
Election results from the Clark County Elections Department
NORTH LAS VEGAS MAYOR: Buck, Robinson advance to runoff in North Las Vegas mayoral race
LAS VEGAS: Ross re-elected to Las Vegas council; Trowbridge, Anthony in lead in Ward 4
NORTH LAS VEGAS CITY COUNCIL: Wood, Carvalho advance in North Las Vegas council race
BOULDER CITY: Race for two seats on Boulder City council narrowed to four candidates
MESQUITE: Six Mesquite council candidates advance to general election
The Senate Taxation Committee voted 6-1 today to allow Clark County to increase sales taxes by a quarter cent as a way to hire more police officers, though it postponed the increase for two years.