The six-month application window for prospective short-term renters in unincorporated Clark County is scheduled to open next month.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Local Government Reporter
Email: rtorres@reviewjournal.com
Ricardo Torres-Cortez covers the city of Las Vegas and Clark County. He returned to the Review-Journal, where he’d interned, after a five-year stint at the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. A Mexican-born graduate of UNLV, he’s passionate about soccer, video games, books and coffee.
Arts District visitors can now park for free during weekday lunch hours as the city of Las Vegas is relaunching its “Lunch Spot Parking” pilot program.
Nonpartisan candidates who get more than 50 percent of the vote in the primary election don’t have to appear on the November ballot.
Former Undersheriff Kevin McMahill, former Assistant Sheriff Tom Roberts and former Sgt. Stan Hyt all want to pin on the sheriff’s badge come November.
Controversial Las Vegas Councilwoman Michele Fiore is battling businessman Manny Kess for the right to challenge incumbent Treasurer Zach Conine in November.
Former Assemblywoman Ellen Spiegel will face political newcomer Michael Costa in the Democratic primary for state controller.
Police said speed was a factor in a crash that killed a bicyclist in North Las Vegas on Sunday morning.
Seven people were hospitalized following a suspected DUI-crash in Summerlin Sunday morning, Las Vegas police said.
The Metropolitan Police Department was involved in a standoff Sunday morning with a “suicidal” person in the heart of downtown Las Vegas.
The officer tried using a baton to de-escalate, causing the man to continue to move toward him, pulling out something from his pocket and holding it “like a weapon.”
Three motorcycles were headed east on Cheyenne Avenue about 5:30 p.m. when the crash occurred on Cheyenne and Mary Dee avenues, near Interstate 15.
Metropolitan Police Department officers picked up retired Detective Herman Moody, the first Black police officer in Las Vegas history, from his house and took him to the Clark County government center, where officials dedicated a proclamation in his honor.
After a multi-family housing complex in downtown Las Vegas was sold last year, rents dramatically increased, leaving cash-strapped residents scrambling to decide their next move.
A fistfight between two students escalated into a stabbing that prompted officials to lock down Cimarron-Memorial High School on Wednesday morning.