If a majority of the affected more than 1,500 property owners protest the annexation, the city won’t be able to move forward. The 10 areas slated for annexation are “islands” of unincorporated Clark County territory that sit inside the city’s three most urban wards.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, plans to make a bipartisan pitch for recognizing Jerusalem as that nation’s capital when he addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition Saturday at the Venetian/Palazzo Hotel and Resort.
Citing national security concerns, the White House on Friday formally notified the House intelligence committee that President Donald Trump is unable to declassify a memo drafted by Democrats that counters GOP allegations about abuse of government surveillance powers in the FBIs Russia probe.
Former North Las Vegas City Manager Qiong Liu requested a public hearing to contest the City Council’s decision to terminate her employment “for cause” amid allegations that she attempted to give herself a $30,000 retroactive raise.
John Ruhs, the head of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, is leaving to become the bureau’s new director at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
Shimon Abta is waiting for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to decide whether to grant him re-entry to the U.S. after the government deemed him a drug trafficker for his work in the medical marijuana industry.
A new budget deal that authorizes federal money for domestic programs that could benefit Nevada swayed the majority of the state’s congressional lawmakers to vote Friday for the bipartisan agreement that lifts caps on spending by $300 billion over two years.
