Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
Politics and Government
The Review-Journal reached out to all mayoral candidates on how the city should pay for Badlands-related court rulings, and whether they agreed with the city’s yearslong legal battle.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
Five-year projections, which the Bureau of Reclamation releases three times a year, are showing that snowpack may have boosted Lake Mead.
Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Pres. Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas Wednesday.
The city of Las Vegas contracted with Northshore Clinical Labs to provide limited COVID-19 testing early this year, a city representative said this week.
The latest coronavirus mutant federally classified as a “variant of concern” now accounts for 10 percent of new U.S. cases and possibly twice that rate in Nevada, health officials say.
Demand remains high for vaccine in Clark County and is expected to increase as eligibility expands, public health officials say, suggesting “overwhelming” crowds may lie ahead.
Appointments at Southern Nevada Health District sites on Thursday through Saturday and University Medical Center on Thursday and Friday will be rescheduled for next week.
Officials with the Southern Nevada Health District gave giving a telebriefing to members of the news media on Friday.