Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
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The Review-Journal reached out to all mayoral candidates on how the city should pay for Badlands-related court rulings, and whether they agreed with the city’s yearslong legal battle.
Overtime pay more than doubled the base salaries of some Clark County firefighters, costing taxpayers more than $20 million in 2022, county pay records show.
Minnesota attorney general found the company improperly changed rules there but residents say Nevada officials have done little to protect them.
A handful of administrators earned $100,000 at College of Southern Nevada in 2022, but the average pay was less than half that.
Unofficial Nye County election results show Deputy Joe McGill defeated Sheriff Sharon Wehrly by a nearly two-to-one margin. Wehrly has faced scrutiny since she took office.
Hundreds of thousands of traffic tickets — even those for serious offenses — are reduced to parking violations, a Review-Journal investigation found. And with a siloed court system, bad drivers face little punishment.
Switching traffic tickets to civil infractions will result in far fewer being reduced to parking violations, some officials say.
Nevada courts operate in information silos, making it difficult for police and judges to know a person’s complete driving history. An improved system is planned for 2023.
The subpoenas have been served over the past several months following an FBI raid on Michele Fiore’s northwest Las Vegas home in January, sources said.
The Aladdin hotel and its ties to the Detroit mob in the late 1970s are explored in new episodes of the podcast. Also featured: Wayne Newton and Johnny Carson’s feud.
The Nevada DMV will continue its scandal-plagued computer modernization program despite the state Supreme Court striking down a key funding source.
Bret Whipple, a former NSHE regent and well-known Nevada defense attorney, is fighting to keep his license after being charged with professional misconduct.
It’s the first time health officials revealed hard numbers about what role Nevada’s tourism industry could be playing in the state’s outbreak.
In a rare move, the alleged Las Vegas extremists were charged by two separate grand juries with conspiracy to cause violence at Black Lives Matter protests.