On the eve of a City Council vote about whether to move forward to allow medical marijuana dispensaries within Las Vegas city limits, the city Planning Commission held a workshop Tuesday on how to regulate zoning if they do become a reality.
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Clark County officials have cleared the Roos-N-More zoo in Moapa to reopen, at least to private tours.
Nevada has to take the steps necessary to provide prompt treatment to mentally ill offenders in a bid to restore their competency, according to a recent settlement in a federal lawsuit.
Four people were arrested on Tuesday in connection with drugs found at the home of film star Philip Seymour Hoffman following his death of an apparent heroin overdose, the New York Daily News reported, citing unidentified police sources.
In official bios posted on websites, to Wikipedia and in widespread media reports, congressional candidate Niger Innis is listed as a 1990 graduate of Georgetown University, although he never completed his degree in political science.
TV’s “Science Guy” Bill Nye says there are infinite discoveries yet to be made about the universe and how we got here. Ken Ham, the man Nye traveled to Kentucky to debate Tuesday night, says all those answers are already in the Bible.
Royal Air Force Tornado fighter jets joined the chorus of man-made thunder Tuesday as military aircraft from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom stormed off into a wintry sky toward the Nevada Test and Training Range to kick off another day of Red Flag exercises.
Clark County commissioners narrowly defeated a tentative agreement reached between University Medical Center’s management and the union that represents about 3,000 employees at the public hospital.
A woman accused of setting fire to her pet store last week was caught on tape, according to her arrest report released Monday. Gloria Lee, 35, set fire to Prince and Princess Pet Boutique at 6870 S. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 104 on Jan. 27.
Donald “D” Taylor, head of the national hotel workers union, met Tuesday with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to discuss “bitter” disappointment with the Affordable Care Act.
A state board on Tuesday approved a $130,000 settlement with a former Nevada prison inmate who had her ankles shackled in 2011 during an ambulance ride to give birth to her baby.
GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday he will not participate in the Nevada Republican Party’s new endorsement process that it will use ahead of the June 10 primary to guide voters, and state senators have followed suit.
The Clark County Commission on Tuesday approved a contract with John Entsminger, the unanimous pick to replace Pat Mulroy at the helm of the Las Vegas Valley Water District and the Southern Nevada Water Authority. He will be paid $260,000 a year.
Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a suspect in the January robbery of a gaming bar near Cheyenne Avenue and Tenaya Way.
Reflexologists in Clark County will soon be more closely regulated, with restrictions on the hours of operation and training requirements, county commissioners decided Tuesday.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. On the inside, you get The Strip (and now, the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
Residents throughout the Las Vegas Valley were reacting to the news that Donald Trump had become the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Trump is expected to appeal the verdict and will face an awkward dynamic as he returns to the campaign trail tagged with convictions.
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.