To determine where Clark County stacks up in 2018, hundreds of volunteers navigated local sidewalks, vacant lots and even drainage tunnels overnight Wednesday into Thursday to count the homeless as part of an annual census.
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Nevada’s largest school district — the fifth biggest in the nation — could become the first major public entity to leave NV Energy under a proposal headed to school board trustees this week.
Teenage girls shouldn’t have to take their pants off in front of random teenage boys. The Clark County School District disagrees.
Clark County will soon provide diversion services to at-risk children around the clock.
Clark County Emergency Management officials test the alert system for the county every week and were doing so Thursday morning, just days after Hawaii and Japan received false alerts that a missile had been launched and was on its way.
A personality conflict led to last week’s shake-up of North Las Vegas city hall leadership, according to NLV Mayor John Lee.
Clark County commissioners want their residents to know: You can fight annexation, and the county will help.
The installation of hundreds more steel safety posts along Las Vegas Strip sidewalks has been delayed at least another three weeks because of a continuing payroll dispute.
The suits over dues and representation filed by the Clark County Education Association and the Nevada State Education Association both survived motions to dismiss in separate hearings on Tuesday.
Muller Construction may file a criminal complaint against a labor official whose accusation has delayed a Las Vegas Strip safety project, an attorney representing the company said.
Texas voters dodged a bullet. Lynette Boggs-Perez’s efforts to resurrect her political career in Texas went belly-up on a technicality. The Republican Party of Bexar County booted her off the ballot.
GOP lawmakers, the Trump administration and Democrats were sharply divided over public land use and a Nevada standoff between federal law enforcement and a militia led by Cliven Bundy before he was freed from jail. Now those positions have hardened and the battle is moving to Congress.
In 1990, federal officials listed the Mojave Desert species as threatened across its range, touching off a series of new regulations and initiatives aimed at saving the long-lived reptile.
In addition to the meetings announced Thursday by the School Board, the district plans to launch an online community survey to gather feedback on the district’s search for a successor to Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky.
The contamination was found in three kitchen sinks, not drinking supplies, at Dondero, Stanford and Indian Springs elementary schools. Spot testing at other schools is contining.