The Clark County Commission approved a resolution declaring a cultural district east of the Las Vegas Strip to celebrate the local Filipino community.
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.
A proposed ordinance would regulate where electric bicycles and scooters can be used and how fast they can travel in the Las Vegas Valley.
A company set to purchase the defunct Badlands golf course presented its vision to the city of Las Vegas to develop 1,480 upscale residential homes on the land.
Clark County introduced a draft of a proposed ordinance that would target people experiencing homelessness who camp in public spaces.
Half of the six Mesquite City Council seats are up for grabs in next month’s elections, including the mayor’s position.
The largest Latino-centered civil rights organization kicked off its annual convention on the Strip.
Six journalists joined the ranks of the Review-Journal’s newsgathering and production operations as part of the media outlet’s long-running summer internship program.
While filing to run for mayor of city of Las Vegas is a fairly inexpensive $100, keeping a campaign and candidate afloat has traditionally required more spending, meaning substantial fundraising in most cases.
A pedestrian injured by a hit-and-run motorist earlier this month in North Las Vegas died a week later.
Las Vegas police were investigating a homicide in an east valley neighborhood.
Federal authorities were searching for man they said robbed a mail carrier earlier this month near Summerlin.
“He served the Henderson Police Department with Honor and Distinction and positively impacted all those who worked with him,” police Chief Hollie Chadwick told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in a statement.
The city of Las Vegas approved an “order out corridor” for the downtown tourist district that could ban convicted misdemeanor offenders from the area with a court order.
While the city of Las Vegas doesn’t know how many sidewalk food vendors operate within its jurisdiction, it estimates that only about 25 of them might seek upcoming licensing.
A district court judge ruled that a developer is entitled to the fair-market value of land that the City of Las Vegas took to block a planned development.