Clark County awards its first sidewalk vending license
Politics and Government
It’s hard to look like a winner when your campaign opponent could be in handcuffs at any time, and when your son’s criminal trial starts next week.
The Clark County district attorney’s office has filed a motion accusing District Judge Erika Ballou of failing to follow orders from the Nevada Supreme Court.
Washoe County filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy this week, seeking to block plans to downsize operations and relocate its outgoing mail processing facility from Reno to Sacramento.
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.
County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a design for the Forever One Memorial, which will honor the dozens who died and hundreds who were injured at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
The memorial will honor the 60 victims and hundreds of survivors who were part of the deadliest mass shooting in recent America history, which unfolded across the street from Mandalay Bay on Oct. 1, 2017.
A recent planning survey for a permanent memorial honoring the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting elicited hundreds of emotional responses.
“It is so important that we come up with a memorial that we can all be proud of, one that best reflects the wishes of those affected,” said Mynda Smith, whose sister died in the mass shooting.
Officials are urging the public to watch the 1 October Sunrise Remembrance ceremony remotely this year, in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Victims of the October 1, 2017, shooting will be memorialized in a combination of socially distanced and virtual events as the third anniversary of the shooting approaches.
A permanent memorial for Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victims may not be ready for several years, leading some Clark County lawmakers to worry about the project sitting for too long on the shelf.
State and county officials are moving forward on a stalled effort to build a memorial commemorating the 1 October shooting victims.
For two consecutive years, Greg Zanis planted 58 handmade white crosses at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign. But this year, because of safety concerns, the memorial will move downtown.
Clark County has stopped releasing autopsy reports for all 58 victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, despite a district judge’s ruling that the reports are public records.