Republican Senate frontrunner Sam Brown expresses support for Trump’s pledge to not tax service workers’ tips if re-elected.
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John Lee, running for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District, filed a complaint against David Flippo’s campaign, who he thinks made a website he says is defamatory. Flippo’s campaign denies any role.
Clark County is expected to reach a settlement agreement in a yearslong legal dispute over a development on Blue Diamond Hill.
In Las Vegas, the former president tries to woo the workers who keep Sin City in businesss, announcing he wants to end taxes on tip income if elected in November.
Las Vegas homebuilding industry leaders are backing an effort to make more land available to improve the balance between housing supply and demand.
More than 70 percent of state residents believe Nevada’s water supply is a serious problem, according to a poll.
Despite a wet winter that swelled the Colorado River’s reservoirs this year, Lake Mead will head into 2024 under a federal water shortage for a third consecutive year.
Rising temperatures have sapped more than 10 trillion gallons of water from the Colorado River over the last two decades, a recent study shows.
Las Vegas kicked off this year using far less water than previous years. But a dry outlook for the rest of summer could put a dent in those water use reductions.
An error by SNWA, combined with pushback to a “nonfunctional turf” ban could leave the Las Vegas Valley short of the water savings it needs to continue growing without increasing its overall water use.
After dropping more than 50 feet since 2000, latest forecasts show Lake Mead rising by roughly 22 feet by the end of the year.
The two proposals show that “the tools available to the federal government are very blunt,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Since the 1980s, Southern Nevada has been banking its unused Colorado River water, storing hundreds of billions of gallons away underground and in Lake Mead.
Nevada gets less than a 2 percent cut from the Colorado River’s waters, but the state actually uses far more water than that each year.
In the latest Conservation in the West Poll, low river levels was ranked as the most serious concern by Nevadans, ahead concerns over the rising costs of living and gas prices.