The unemployment rate edged up to a still-low 4%, from 3.9%, ending a 27-month streak of unemployment below 4%, the Labor Department said Friday.
Politics and Government
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved giving a 3.5 percent bonus to City Manager Richard Derrick.
Henderson and North Las Vegas soon will be able to sponsor and oversee charter schools, after the Nevada Department of Education gave its blessing this week.
A political action committee says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ineligible to appear on the November ballot unless he resubmits his petition to comply with Nevada law.
The Henderson City Council approved a ballot question asking residents whether to fund Henderson Fire Department improvements with bonds and a property tax hike.
Work at the site hasn’t even begun, and the NFL stadium in Las Vegas already faces its first possible construction delay.
Dozens of local projects can advance now that $20 million in federal grants will be funneled to local governments in Southern Nevada.
Soon after a judge on Tuesday morning appointed a receiver to oversee Henderson’s shuttered Legacy Golf Course, the property’s new owners had an announcement of their own:
State Public Charter School Authority appears to be nearing decision on whether to accept Nevada Connections Academy’s plan to improve its 37 percent high school graduation rate.
The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday shortened by three weeks a public comment period for a study that will determine whether the Raiders’ proposed 225-foot-tall stadium would impact jetliner traffic at McCarran International Airport.
A pair of deadly attacks in which people have driven cars through crowds has increased the urgency for Clark County to install hundreds of steel posts along the Las Vegas Strip.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority plans to spend up to $7.5 million in Mexico over the next 10 years in exchange for more Colorado River water.
Clark County District Court Judge Jerry Wiese declined to rule from the bench Thursday on motions to dismiss a lawsuit challenging plans to build more than 5,000 homes atop a hill bordering the Red Rock National Conservation Area.
Clark County commissioners, who pledged $150 million to undetermined parks projects this month, loosened their purse strings again Tuesday to improve and construct local green spaces.
County commissioners voted Tuesday to create 94 full-time positions spanning multiple departments. Funding the new workers is expected to cost the county about $7.8 million over the next year.