Las Vegas City Attorney Rebecca Wolfson has raised more than $340,000 in a race for Municipal Court, out fundraising all other judicial candidates in the upcoming primary elections.
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Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
The lawsuit was being brought with 30 state and district attorneys general and seeks to break up the monopoly they say is squeezing out smaller promoters and hurting artists.
With the campaign season in full swing, 10 hopefuls pitched their vision for the city’s future to at the “Meet the Candidates” forum in the west valley.
Clark County will likely challenge a district court judge’s decision in the ongoing litigation with Gypsum Resources to the state Supreme Court.
The Senate edged closer Thursday to a historic vote on a sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax code that includes cuts for corporations, businesses and individuals, but would heap $1.4 trillion onto the national debt over 10 years.
There’s also been talk at City Hall about moving municipal races to November of even-numbered years, to sync up with Clark County’s cycle and state and federal elections, but the council hasn’t voted on an Election Day move.
President Donald Trump is considering a plan to oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has had a strained relationship with his boss over North Korea and other issues, senior administration officials said on Thursday.
The top Democrat in the House on Thursday called on Michigan Rep. John Conyers to resign in the face of multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against the longest-serving member of the House.
President Donald Trump initially responded on Twitter to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s criticism of his retweeting of inflammatory anti-Muslim videos from a fringe British political group by directing his message to the wrong Theresa May.
A German man has come forward as the former Twitter Inc employee who shut down the account of U.S. President Donald Trump for 11 minutes this month on his last day of work at the social network.
In his bid to represent Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, state Sen. Scott Hammond, R-Las Vegas, wants tax reform, Obamacare repealed and federal legislation encouraging school choice. Hammond made his comments while appearing on Nevada Politics Today.
A sweeping tax-reform bill cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Wednesday as Republicans moved forward with their plan to pass the legislation this week.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson is one of three Democratic prosecutors calling on Nevada’s Republican governor, attorney general to enforce the initiative passed by voters in 2016 while court challenges proceed.
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin reached out to state and local leaders Wednesday in a conference that follows President Donald Trump’s proclamation to make November “National Veterans and Military Families Month.”