Clark County employees affiliated with the Service Employees International Union Local 1107 have narrowly approved an interim agreement from the county that will restore a 2 percent pay cut employees took in 2011. Union members cast their votes on Thursday and Friday. In the non-supervisory unit of the SEIU, 53.2 percent of members approved it. In the supervisory unit, 51.4 percent supported it.
Six people were convicted earlier this month of racketeering and other charges for enticing men into forking over large sums of money believing they were paying for sex.
The long-term survival of a large ground-dwelling bird that lives in sagebrush throughout much of Northern and central Nevada could soon become the next big battle between ranchers and the federal government.
Municipal Court Judge Catherine Ramsey has cost cash-strapped North Las Vegas “a lot of money” recently, perhaps as much as $10,000 a month, according to city officials.
Ex-mayor Oscar Goodman creates the “eepa” martini, a mix of a Martini and IPA beer, to open the great Vegas beer festival in downtown on east Fremont.
Winter doesn’t seem to want to go away in the Sierra Nevada.
Some 30 people staged an anti-mining protest outside the headquarters of the Nevada Mining Association in Reno on Friday.
Hundreds of people rallied in Henderson’s Water Street district for the city’s 61st annual Heritage Parade and Festival on Saturday.
About 30 youths sat in rapt attention as Robert Williams, a former federal convict, spoke April 1 at the Dr. William U. Pearson Community Center, 1625 W. Carey Ave.
There’s a lot riding on a California law to grant driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally and supporters are already preparing prospective drivers to pass the test required to get one.
