North Las Vegas voters will decide during the upcoming primary election whether a pair of property taxes will continue funding public safety and public works, including more than 100 “critical” employee positions.
Politics and Government
Early voting for the June 11 primary begins Saturday and ends June 7. Here’s what your ballot might look like if you’re a nonpartisan voter.
Southern Nevada Health District officials are urging Clark County residents to help prevent the spread of the mosquitoes, which were found in 43 ZIP codes last year.
It’s the economy, stupid. The White House touts the U.S. economy, but the president promises to allow the Trump tax cuts to expire if he’s re-elected.
A two-story, 40,000-square-foot STEM university building that will include classrooms and a large lecture hall was unveiled by Spaceport CEO Robert Lauer.
The Department of Justice is proposing to ban bump stocks — devices that accelerate the rate of fire of semi-automatic rifles — by classifying them as machine guns, the Review-Journal has learned.
About 500,000 people stayed at Airbnb rentals in the Las Vegas area last year, the company reports. That’s almost double the amount of visitors in 2016.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: For the third time in four years, Democrat Lesley Cohen will face Republican Stephen Silberkraus for the right to represent Assembly District 29 in what is expected to be one of this year’s most competitive legislative races.
In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, Congress filed a flurry of bills, including those that would ban or restrict bump stocks. But lawmakers failed to pass any of the gun bills.
Herbicide treatments, set to begin Tuesday, will target red brome and other nonnative grasses at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and three other sites that have been slow to recover since being scorched by wildfires.
All around the Old Town neighborhood, people are lashing out over the loss of their trees, which they blame on sale-based de-icing chemicals used by Clark County road crews.
People packed the Chaparral High School gymnasium Sunday evening to hear Michelle Obama, celebrities and local leaders speak on the importance of registering to vote. They called on the crowd to ensure they were registered — and to ensure their friends, family and colleagues were registered — with Election Day around the corner.
Taxpayers potentially owe almost $610 million to local government employees in Nevada’s two most populous counties for their unused paid time off, financial reports show.
The U.S. Department of Justice grants will go to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, which will receive the biggest grant in Nevada at $1.35 million; the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, $1 million; the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, $450,000; and the Moapa Band of Paiutes, about $300,000.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday honored four Metropolitan Police Department for their efforts the night of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.