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.
The MLB franchise needs lawmakers’ approval for a $1.5 billion ballpark on the Strip, including up to $380 million in public financing.
Early efforts are underway to designate an area in east Las Vegas that includes Frenchman Mountain, Rainbow Gardens and Gypsum Cave as a national monument.
A bill to provide up to $380 million in public financing for a $1.5 billion ballpark has not yet been introduced at the Nevada Legislature.
The budget includes nearly $400 million for major construction projects across the valley aimed at improving the resiliency and capacity of the valley’s water system.
If the bill were to become law, Nevada would be the first state to give a water agency the power to cap the amount of water that flows into individual homes.
State lawmakers are expected to heavily amend a water conservation bill that irked septic tank owners in the Las Vegas Valley.
Some Las Vegas Valley residents are pushing back against a proposal that would force them to dump their septic tanks and tap into the region’s municipal sewer system.
The library, which works like a vending machine, was installed in partnership with the Boulevard Mall and the Latin Chamber of Commerce.
Gov. Joe Lombardo’s administration is planning to abandon the Grant Sawyer building near downtown in favor of buying office buildings near Reid airport.