The unemployment rate edged up to a still-low 4%, from 3.9%, ending a 27-month streak of unemployment below 4%, the Labor Department said Friday.
Politics and Government
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved giving a 3.5 percent bonus to City Manager Richard Derrick.
Henderson and North Las Vegas soon will be able to sponsor and oversee charter schools, after the Nevada Department of Education gave its blessing this week.
A political action committee says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ineligible to appear on the November ballot unless he resubmits his petition to comply with Nevada law.
The Henderson City Council approved a ballot question asking residents whether to fund Henderson Fire Department improvements with bonds and a property tax hike.
With many Nevada residents still having issues with setting an appointment to conduct business with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles in Las Vegas, some were taking advantage of the situation and are selling time slots already pre-booked.
Five ballots questions up for vote Tuesday relate to the oversight of higher education, gay marriage, state pardons, voters’ rights and a reusable-energy mandate.
The board of county commissioners unanimously voted to endorse Virgin’s plan to obtain industrial development bond financing from state department of business and industry.