Two of three Clark County Commissioners up for re-election were leading their races early Wednesday, preliminary election results show.
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.
A District Court judge denied a request to keep polling places open after voting machine printers ran out of paper at eight polling places.
Before Tuesday’s midterms, Culinary Workers Union Local 226 appeared “fired up” in its quest to knock on 1 million doors in canvassing sessions aimed at re-electing Democrats.
The raise for City Manager Jorge Cervantes will put him “more in line” with what others in his position in the valley earn.
Kevin Schiller’s upcoming promotion to the county’s top executive position was made official.
The Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board on Monday announced that it had received 100 completed applications during a 10-day window earlier this month.
In one of two versions of the new logo the letter “O” is a golden-yellow semicircle representative of how high the sun shines there, Assistant City Manager Stephanie Garcia-Vause recently told the Review-Journal.
Stan Armstrong, a staple in the film community who dreamed of putting untold, real Las Vegas stories in front of audiences, died at 69.
Former North Las Vegas City Manager Qiong Liu has agreed to pay $10,000 to resolve an ethics probe that stemmed from allegations she tried to bypass the City Council to inappropriately give herself a retroactive raise, which led to her firing.
A 40-year-old man slain outside a CVS pharmacy in central Las Vegas was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
The 21-year-old North Las Vegas resident died at University Medical Center.
The newspaper swept the Human Rights Reporting category in the awards organized by the Las Vegas chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Attorneys for the developer of a long-stalled housing project at Blue Diamond Hill alleged in federal court Thursday that Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones deleted all his text message history hours after voting against the development in 2019.
The city of Las Vegas on Wednesday allocated up to $2 million to three law firms defending it in litigation with the would-be developer of the defunct Badlands golf course, bringing total spending on legal fees surrounding the project to about $7 million.
The city of Las Vegas moved Wednesday to audit the public funds it provides to the embattled Animal Foundation shelter.