Members of the Las Vegas City Council remain divided over how to regulate building-sized advertising wraps downtown. On Tuesday, the council’s recommending committee voted for a bill that would set size and use restrictions on the wraps, but only after shortening the amount of time a sign permit would cover.
The drivers’ strike at Yellow Checker Star Transportation, Las Vegas’ second-largest taxi company, slogs into its seventh week after a failed attempt at mediation.
Touro University senior provost and CEO Michael Harter, who helped found the school in 2004, recently announced his impending retirement.
The April 1 letter to tens of thousands of Southern Nevadans covered by Cigna health insurance did not contain good news: “Please be aware that effective April 30, 2013, University Medical Center … will no longer be a participating hospital in our network.”
Cab drivers for Yellow Checker Star Transportation, now in their sixth week of a strike, take their dispute to the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday.
It’s well known that nonprofit organizations serving Las Vegas have seen their funding cut and their budgets drastically reduced over the past five years. Today, nonprofit budgets are smaller, but the demand remains for health care, senior care, housing assistance and food services.
Ryan Growney was preparing to attend law school.
Are you ready for some baseball in … Summerlin? The future owner of the Las Vegas 51s, less than a month from closing on the $20 million team purchase, says he will lobby city, county and convention authority officials for help building a new $65 million ballpark next to Red Rock Resort in Summerlin.
Nancy Levandowski and Steven Keller of Ames, Iowa, were married at Denny’s on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas on Wednesday. It was the first wedding in the chapel at the diner in Neonopolis.
