As animal advocacy groups rail against conditions at the Animal Foundation, the city of Las Vegas prepared a report outlining what it would take to build and operate its own shelter or switch providers.
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 city of Las Vegas on Wednesday voted to buy one of three parcels needed to build a parking garage at the corner of Imperial Avenue and Casino Center Boulevard.
The Review-Journal investigative journalist and the Metropolitan Police Department detectives who investigated his killing were honored Wednesday with proclamations at City Hall.
Michele Fiore’s move to Nye County in November has raised questions about the legitimacy of her last votes on the Las Vegas City Council and her appointment to a Pahrump Justice Court bench.
Clark County businesses with beer and wine licenses will now also be allowed to serve packaged “spirit-based products.”
In a recent 17-month period, the two largest ambulance companies in Southern Nevada — AMR and MedicWest — have reached the 90 percent on-time contractual obligation with Clark County once and zero times, respectively.
As marijuana lounges open in Nevada, entrepreneurs work out the details with few guarantees of success.
The County Commission named Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen to replace Chris Brooks in the state Senate.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday set regulations for cannabis consumption lounges expected to begin opening as early as 2023.
The girls’ mother said she had witnessed her sister and a friend of her sister’s consume what she “believed” to be an entire bottle of tequila sometime before the crash, according to police.
The North Las Vegas City Council appointed a new member, although the council split with the new mayor over who should fill the vacant seat.
Nevada Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen could be elevated to the state Senate next week.
Newly-inaugurated Councilwomen Nancy Brune and Francis Allen-Palenske acknowledge a wide learning curve, but the two are tackling it together.
Pamela Goynes-Brown took the ceremonial oath of office Wednesday afternoon.
Two new councilwomen joined the Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday, expanding the female majority to five.