After the closure of the $8 million ISO-Q complex at Cashman Field, Clark County and the city of Las Vegas are trying new strategies to protect the homeless from COVID-19.
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The city of Las Vegas has a plan to help qualifying residents who are facing financial hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic and behind on housing bills: Cover up to three months of delinquent rent or mortgage.
The Las Vegas ISO-Q Complex, an isolation and quarantine center built for individuals experiencing homelessness, officially closed on Tuesday after serving 245 people since it opened April 13.
The group seeking to recall Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has not collected a single signature at the halfway mark, organizers told the city this week.
All branches of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District have reinstated the use of study rooms, computers and Wi-Fi, bookshelf browsing and some adult education courses.
Carolyn Goodman warned that a broken unemployment system and the threat that a spike in coronavirus cases could reel back progress were reasons to remain concerned.
Las Vegas records show city staff was involved in creating a video in which people praised Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who’d been criticized for comments about reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic.
While its direct impact on the homeless population is still unclear, the coronavirus pandemic has made life on the streets of Las Vegas harder in many ways.
More than 1,300 city of Las Vegas employees could receive a 3-percent hazard pay bonus in early July whether or not they were working during the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the city’s largest labor union said Friday.
Las Vegas city officials revealed how they want to use the vast majority of $119 million in federal coronavirus relief funding.
Ten drive-thru coronavirus testing sites will be opening in Walmart parking lots across Nevada beginning Monday, the city of Las Vegas said Thursday.
Las Vegas City Councilwoman Victoria Seaman announced Thursday the launch of Project Memorial.
Restaurants and retail businesses in downtown Las Vegas that are operating under the first two phases of state orders on reopening may extend operations to the sidewalk, the city said Thursday.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is facing a recall effort in the wake of her response to the coronavirus pandemic, including controversial comments she made recently on national television.
Las Vegas city officials are looking to federal funding and employee concessions to deal with perhaps the worst financial crisis in its history, City Manager Scott Adams said Wednesday.