The county has placed its head of construction management on administrative leave while it continues an investigation into a potential conflict of interest involving his wife’s firm.
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The county approved the wife of a key public works official as a prime contractor on future projects.
In Clark County, the largest of the local governments, four of the 10 most highly compensated employees last year cashed out vacation and sick leave in the six figures.
A Las Vegas man is claiming the Metropolitan Police Department has failed to properly address threatening behavior from his neighbor, the son of a retired high-ranking police officer.
The Mohave County Medical Examiner’s office and National Park Service both refuse to provide details on a heat-related death. But that might violate Arizona state records laws.
The wife of a key Clark County public works official is part of a team that received a multimillion-dollar contract from the department, fueling concerns about a potential conflict of interest in the bidding process.
Running the offices cost more than $6.5 million in taxpayer dollars. Here’s the breakdown.
Prosecutors plan to oppose the Review-Journal’s push to unseal documents supporting a search warrant executed at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority offices.
Las Vegas police executed the search warrant in March, looking for evidence that LVCVA executives mishandled $90,000 in airline gift cards bought by the tax-funded agency.
Henderson Constable Earl Mitchell was indicted after a Review-Journal story questioning the spending of county money, including at casinos and bars.
The Ethics Commission can move forward with a complaint against the LVCVA’s former chief marketing officer over the use of airline gift cards.
The UNLV dentist who received nearly $500,000 in payments that a school lawyer deemed he didn’t deserve, also had a $72,000 a year contract with College of Southern Nevada for part-time work on top of his full-time UNLV job, records show.
Gov. Steve Sisolak has signed a bill strengthening the law requiring casinos to file emergency response plans in the wake of the Mandalay Bay mass shooting.
Court records shed new light on the criminal case against former City Councilman Ricki Barlow and raise the level of concern about his lobbying at City Hall.
Rossi Ralenkotter also provided the convention authority with little written explanation of what he did for $15,000 a month in consulting fees, records show.
Former DMV director Troy Dillard took a job at a company hired to modernize the agency’s computers, but the project failed, costing Nevada drivers millions.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority moved forward Tuesday with a $10 million police substation expansion despite an ongoing police investigation of the tourism agency.
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