Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Pres. Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas Wednesday.
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Environmentalists have filed an application with the federal government to list the Amargosa toad, found only in the Oasis Valley northwest of Las Vegas, as an endangered species.
The jury of seven men and five women was sent to a private room just before 11:30 a.m. to begin weighing a verdict in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.
District Judge Joanna Kishner ordered Meta to provide more information to the state of Nevada on its policies regarding children on its platforms.
GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown said he opposes Yucca Mountain, following pressure on both sides after audio captured his support for the nuclear waste repository.
The Oakland Athletics filed a motion to intervene in a teachers union-backed lawsuit aimed at halting the team’s public stadium financing.
The North Las Vegas City Council tapped one of its own members to the Clark County School District Board of Trustees.
About 20 people attended a rally Tuesday outside the Clark County School District’s administrative center on West Sahara Avenue to push for teacher raises.
The U.S. Department of Education released state-level data Tuesday showing how many people are eligible.
After a video posted to social media showed a CCSD police officer throwing a student to the ground, the RJ requested a copy of the incident report, as well as any prior complaints that had been made against the involved officer.
The Nevada attorney general’s office determined that the board changed a meeting time “without providing sufficient notice to the public.”
The Clark County School District could receive $32.6 million less in state general education funding due to lower student enrollment numbers than projected.
The last time the Nevada Legislature audited the Clark County School District was in 2004.
The Clark County School District reopened its campuses Wednesday, but officials couldn’t say whether the extreme staffing shortages of last week had improved during the break.
Clark County School District campuses reopen Wednesday with more than 1,000 employees cleared to return to work following a “pause” caused by a COVID-19-related staffing shortage.