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.
Last week, Clark County and the city of Las Vegas presented keys to Emmitt Smith and Chef James Trees.
The Las Vegas ISO-Q Complex, an isolation and quarantine center built for individuals experiencing homelessness, officially closed on Tuesday after serving 245 people since it opened April 13.
Las Vegas and the Renaissance Cos. began talks in June on the master development agreement for a proposed new soccer stadium project.
Las Vegas is eyeing a new soccer stadium near downtown. Five cities with MLS teams have opened stadiums in recent years at costs between $100 million and $400 million.
A supermajority of residents at the condominium tower voted to allow the homeowners association to regulate illegitimate short-term rentals, targeting a point of contention that had never been addressed by condo policy since the building opened in 2008.
A nostalgic glow may soon entice pedestrians to explore more of downtown Las Vegas.
Armed with signs, shouting chants, dressed in white and carrying water to handle the summer heat, a few hundred people gathered in downtown Las Vegas on Saturday morning to protest the Trump administration’s family separation and detention policy.
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority executives, directors and contractors responded to a Review-Journal investigation last year by downplaying questions about agency spending and the independence of its board and planning aggressive damage control, emails show.
The Nevada Legislature passed a law in 2015 putting control over firearms, accessories and ammunition in the “exclusive domain of the Legislature,” and renders any contrary law, rule or ordinance “to the contrary null and void.”
There’s also been talk at City Hall about moving municipal races to November of even-numbered years, to sync up with Clark County’s cycle and state and federal elections, but the council hasn’t voted on an Election Day move.
As golf course closures and redevelopment plans continue to rile residents across the valley, the Las Vegas City Council next week will take up a moratorium on applications for redeveloping courses and other common open spaces in the city.
Plans to develop the Badlands Golf Club have divided residents in the Queensridge development, which is entwined with the course, since it was sold two years ago. The course was operational until late last year and the water stayed on until last month.
Three years and two dozen motions later, a federal court in Las Vegas will hear a federal lawsuit Monday that seeks to block the Southern Nevada Water Authority from siphoning groundwater from a 300-mile swath of eastern Nevada.
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