Clark County Commissioners had voted to make a $100,000 offer to dismiss the federal suit.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Local Government Reporter
Email: rtorres@reviewjournal.com
Ricardo Torres-Cortez covers the city of Las Vegas and Clark County. He returned to the Review-Journal, where he’d interned, after a five-year stint at the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. A Mexican-born graduate of UNLV, he’s passionate about soccer, video games, books and coffee.
What began as a routine discussion at a Las Vegas Planning Commission meeting devolved into a squabble that led to a public firing and an arrest.
A lengthy disciplinary hearing that could lead to action against Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones’ law license wrapped up without a resolution after three days of testimony.
Former President Donald Trump participated in a Hispanic roundtable in North Las Vegas Saturday afternoon.
A lawsuit from Republicans, including the Trump campaign, alleges that up to 4,000 noncitizens in Nevada might have voted in the 2020 election.
Clark County moved more than 100,000 registered voters who had failed to verify their address to “inactive” status. Those voters can still vote but won’t receive mail-in ballots.
Thirty-two more people have died in crashes on Clark County roadways this year compared with the same time in 2023, Nevada officials announced.
Bishop Gorman High School will soon have a new principal, according to a letter sent to the private school’s community.
A DUI suspect didn’t slow down or switch lanes before he struck and killed a woman next to her broken down car Tuesday on a northwest valley road, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Las Vegas police said the crash was reported in a residential neighborhood near Charleston Boulevard and the 215 Beltway.
A man found shot to dead in a crashed car had been in a road rage chase with another driver, according to police, who said the fatal shots came from a third party.
Threats by an armed man prompted the closure of Wetlands Park, according to Clark County officials.
The sound of gunshot blasts that fatally wounded the man who killed three UNLV professors and wounded a fourth last month was captured on body-cam footage released by Las Vegas police Friday.
Institutions in the state have been targeted by bomb-threat hoaxes in recent weeks, according to the FBI and the Nevada Hospital Association.
Six days a week, public libraries offer air-conditioned spaces to study, work, surf the internet, or simply catch up with a friend — as long as it’s done in hushed tones.