Nevada elections officials delivered on promises of faster election returns Tuesday, with several major races already called Tuesday night.
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Deputy City Attorney Rebecca Wolfson was leading two other attorneys and in a position to possibly win the race outright to serve as a judge on the Las Vegas Municipal Court.
Races for Clark County School Board will likely advance to the general election, preliminary election results show.
Preliminary primary election results showed Republican candidate April Becker and Democrat Shannon Bilbray-Alexrod ahead in their respective primaries.
The Associated Press calls the GOP primary in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District for Drew Johnson.
Under the new law, any person who stops in “pedestrian flow zones,” which include the pedestrian bridges and up to 20 feet surrounding the connected stairs or escalators could be charged with a misdemeanor.
The Clark County School District reported a better high school graduation rate than the state of Nevada as a whole.
Ex-NBA player Jackie Robinson narrowly kept his long-delayed arena and hotel project plans alive this week, overcoming skepticism of his financing plans.
The Clark County School District had an 80.94 percent graduation rate in 2021, down from 83.17 percent the year prior, according to the Nevada Department of Education.
Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada says it will continue to treat current patients and is working to resolve a longstanding billing dispute with the insurer.
The Clark County School District will pay a stipend of up to $1,000 to any licensed substitute teacher who works at a school for at least 15 days during first quarter.
Nevada’s key coronavirus metrics remained at high levels on Tuesday, with 1,002 COVID-19 cases and 33 deaths reported, but the state’s test positivity rate registered its third straight decline.
Fentanyl overdose deaths continue to rise in Southern Nevada with five fatalities reported in Clark County in a single day last week, the Southern Nevada Health District said Tuesday.
The topless bar is limited to adults 21 and up, but other outreach locations this week will accept Nevada residents 12 and older to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
Clark County will start to use a new statewide COVID-19 vaccine registration system next week, replacing individual systems used by local governments.