Just like her husband before her, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is betting a burgeoning downtown will lead the beleaguered city back to the promised land. That’s the message she sent Wednesday during her first State of the City address. The speech, delivered in the recently opened City Hall building, was largely a celebration of downtown projects championed by the former mayor and promises to keep that momentum alive.
A 61-year-old man who fell between 80 feet to 100 feet at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Wednesday night survived the fall almost unscathed, Las Vegas police said.
Superintendent Dwight Jones on Wednesday was told to chisel away between 200 to 1,350 Clark County School District positions when the time soon comes. The School Board unanimously adopted a tentative $2.05 billion budget based on expected cost increases and diminished revenue. Board members also gave Jones the go ahead to make any “necessary reductions in force.”
Safety concerns for people involved with rounding up hundreds of renegade cattle belonging to Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy prompted the Bureau of Land Management to suspend indefinitely a plan to impound the herd. “Our goal has always been to get these cattle off public lands in a safe way,” said Mary Jo Rugwell, manager of the BLM’s Southern Nevada District Office.
A district judge in Carson City threw out a petition that would have allowed the state to increase the gaming tax on casinos to 9 percent as early as 2015.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman has been arrested and faces a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press Wednesday.
CORCORAN, Calif. — A prison panel denied parole Wednesday to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th and probably final bid for freedom.
It’s official. School police’s salaries will be frozen from this school year through 2012-13, saving a cash-poor Clark County School District $872,000 in combination with other concessions.
February operating results for Las Vegas taxi companies provided ammunition for both sides in the ongoing debate about the condition of the industry.
There’s a 50-50 chance the next president of Nevada State College will already have a personal connection to Nevada.
