A lawsuit is challenging the legality of the Metropolitan Police Department’s agreement with federal immigration authorities at the Clark County Detention Center.
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.
Rozita V. Lee, who led an effort to establish Filipino Town, declared that it was a wonderful day for Filipinos in Las Vegas.
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill launched his 2026 re-election bid, emphasizing crime reduction, tech innovation and stronger community policing.
Clark County commissioners approved nearly $300K in bonus pay for UMC’s CEO as union leaders raised concerns over possible hospital layoffs.
UNLV interim president Chris Heavey said the university was reshuffling diversity initiatives. The Office of Diversity Initiatives is being replaced.
A 12-year-old bicyclist involved in a crash with a school bus Monday afternoon in the north Las Vegas Valley has died, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
A Las Vegas Municipal Court judge is stepping down from the bench years before her current elected term ends, the city announced Monday.
A vigil was held at UNLV as the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel approaches. Attendees demanded the release of the hostages that remain captive in Gaza.
The Las Vegas City Council was again fully staffed after Councilwoman Kara Kelley was sworn in Wednesday before participating in the first meeting of her interim appointment.
University of Nevada, Reno, President Brian Sandoval said a resource hub under federal scrutiny is not federally funded and is available to the entire campus community.
The UNLV investigation will examine whether the school “engaged in discriminatory practices based on race, color, or national origin against its students,” the Justice Department said.
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty in a case in which he was accused of pointing a loaded “ghost gun” at a person and threatened to “shoot everyone,” according to officials.
On Friday, DOJ officials sent a investigation referral to Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon requesting to probe whether UNR is using tax dollars to “subsidize or promote illegal immigration.”
Yusuf Mosley was also known as “King Yu,” a disc jockey with a show that mixed music and interviews, including with boxing personalities, on UNLV’s radio station.
A former Clark County firefighter who pleaded guilty late last year for possessing child sexual assault material was arrested Thursday on new, similar allegations, according to North Las Vegas authorities.