Nevada elections officials delivered on promises of faster election returns Tuesday, with several major races already called Tuesday night.
Politics and Government
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.
A pair of attorneys vying for judgeships in Clark County filed two separate complaints with the state’s judicial review board against seven candidates.
The longtime government official will be overseeing federal funds and coordinating disease response among state and local agencies.
The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee voted along party lines to transfer all $401 million from the state’s rainy day fund to the general fund to offset the financial crisis triggered by the coronavirus.
The new cases brought the total for the county to 5,463, while the death toll remained unchanged at 296, according to data posted by the Southern Nevada Health District.
Federal courts in Nevada are planning to incrementally resume in-person hearings, the chief judge for the district announced Monday.