Being home is only a painful reminder of the suffering a North Las Vegas couple endures after they lost seven family members in a car crash caused by an impaired driver.
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.
The bill would expand the hiring pool to allow anyone legally allowed to work in Nevada.
As the sun prepares to rise Thursday, hundreds of volunteers will begin to disperse across Clark County in a daylong mission to find out how many people are experiencing homelessness throughout the valley.
Citing a “present threat” to health and safety, Nevada regulators on Tuesday suspended licenses for a North Las Vegas cannabis cultivation facility.
The recent installation of shipping containers is part of an effort by the city of Las Vegas to address food insecurity in the neighborhood.
A complaint filed with local, state and federal authorities calls for Michele Fiore’s final votes as a councilwoman to “be voided and done over.”
A modest-sized crowd gathered at City Hall Thursday for the ninth annual African American Trailblazer Service Awards, where they showered the five award recipients with praise.
About a year-and-a-half ago, the city of Las Vegas implemented a program that placed health care professionals to treat patients at the Courtyard Homeless Resource Center.
The civic plaza, which will include offices and green space, will cost $165 million and sprawl across an entire city block across the street from City Hall.
Clark County on Tuesday appointed longtime local government officer Sabra Smith Newby to the Nevada Assembly.
“I can assure you I’m more excited than ever before about our future,” Mayor Carolyn Goodman said during her state of the city speech Thursday evening.
If the law passes, about 140,000 green card holders and between 12,000 to 15,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients would be eligible to join police forces in the state.
The city of Las Vegas does not plan to “rescind or reconsider” former Councilwoman Michele Fiore’s final city council votes, according to City Attorney Bryan Scott.
Clark County is phasing out of a rental-assistance program instituted during the COVID-19 emergency, but says it has other programs ready to take over.
The announcement came a week after a candidate passed on for Fiore last month, filed a complaint with the county and Attorney General Aaron Ford’s office.