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 on Tuesday approved Resolution 48, which adds a ballot question asking residents whether they want to fund Fire Department improvements and maintenance.
Tanner Castro, a deputy district attorney, faces charges of luring or attempting to lure a child or mentally ill person with use of computer technology to engage in sexual conduct and attempted statuary sexual seduction by a person over 21, according to the Henderson Justice Court website.
One corrections officer worked 13 days in a row of 12-hour or longer shifts without a day off.
Henderson opened a new police substation Thursday in Inspirada, which will also house the city’s police academy.
The family of Rex Patchett, 13, says the reckless driver who killed the boy should have received a harsher sentence. “Rex’s Law” would toughen penalties.
Metropolitan Police Department Detective Robert Sigal, the only detective in the department’s animal cruelty unit, investigates about 100 cases of felony animal abuse across the valley.