A U.S. Senate amendment introduced this week proposes stripping Congressional pay during any government shutdown.
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.
Southern Nevada’s only food bank is moving ahead with several emergency food distribution events today. Find out where to get assistance.
Two days before thousands of Nevadans on food stamps are slated to lose nutritional benefits, state lawmakers affirmed $30 million to help food banks stay afloat.
It’s unclear what kinds of tests he ordered and how Nevada — home of the nation’s nuclear stockpile — would be affected.
Three Square Food Bank, Southern Nevada’s food bank responsible for distribution to partnering organizations, has announced several emergency food relief distribution efforts.
Republican officials are set to appear on the Strip in Las Vegas later this week at a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Nevada on Tuesday joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration aiming to release emergency funding to a food program that helps feed nearly 500,000 residents as the federal government shutdown stretches on.
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill touted falling crime statistics and technological advances at the Metropolitan Police Department at his re-election campaign event.
Nevada’s SNAP food program faces shutdown as federal rules block state funding, leaving 500,000 residents at risk while officials urge bipartisan action.
The Nevada DMV now requires motorists to begin many transactions online, including vehicle registration, before visiting a DMV office in person.
On-site Clark County voters will encounter a new step when casting ballots starting in the 2026 elections, allowing them to insert the paper record into newly-acquired tabulation machines.
The man was in the center of a lawsuit that is challenging Las Vegas police’s collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Nevada’s Republican Governor on Wednesday called on the Democratic senator to help reopen the federal government as the shutdown entered its fourth week.
Nevada’s prisons face a surge of overdoses as ink-laced synthetic drugs are smuggled through mail, exposing a dangerous rise in contraband use.
Nearly 70 federal employees at the agency tasked with overseeing and modernizing the nuclear stockpile in Nevada were furloughed.