The city of Las Vegas and International Market Centers are poised to ink a deal to bring a multimillion-dollar expo center to downtown Las Vegas.
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Cedric Crear bested 10 other candidates in Tuesday’s special election Las Vegas City Council special election to become the first new Ward 5 representative on the council in more than a decade, earning 627 votes, according to an unofficial tally.
Las Vegas voters in the city’s Ward 5 will choose Tuesday from a field of 11 their first new City Council representative in more than a decade.
Spreading the office’s specialized prosecution team across 10 courtrooms means they will have a harder time providing support to frightened victims who may leave court before testifying, according to spokeswoman Audrie Locke.
The company seeking to develop the Badlands golf course is suing Las Vegas in District Court, alleging the city delayed a decision on the plans to first adopt an ordinance that will “severely delay and ultimately prevent development of the property.”
Demanding changes in the nation’s gun laws, as many as 500,000 students, parents and survivors of mass shootings are poised to rally in the nation’s capital Saturday.
Eight of the candidates vying to serve out the remainder of Ricki Barlow’s term on the Las Vegas City Council weighed in on how they would do so in light of their predecessor’s misdeeds.
The Las Vegas City Council authorized Wednesday nearly $44 million in bonds to finance several large-scale projects, including a Fremont Street Experience overhaul and a homeless courtyard plan.
Las Vegans in the city’s more densely populated residential areas can now keep up to 10 chickens in the yard of their single-family home, if neighbors give their blessing to the backyard brood.
The City Council deadlocked Wednesday on a vote on whether to appeal a District Court judge’s ruling in January rejecting the city’s approval of plans to build 435 condos on 17 acres at the eastern edge of the closed golf course.
Las Vegas City Council candidate Cedric Crear far outpaced his competitors to take the top fundraising spot in the 11-person pack racing to represent the city’s Ward 5.
The Las Vegas City Council may vote Wednesday to appeal a Clark County District Court judge’s ruling invalidating the council’s approval last year of a condominium development on the Badlands golf course in west Las Vegas.
Residents of Las Vegas’ Ward 5 will have 11 candidates to choose from when they head to the polls March 27 to pick their first new City Council representative since 2007.
The Nevada Democrat had said in December he would not run again for the state’s 4th Congressional District after women accused him of sexual harassment. In recent weeks, he had been reconsidering his options, but he did not file candidacy papers as of Friday’s deadline.
A day after a Review-Journal story revealed that District Attorney Steve Wolfson did not press charges in a nearly $42,000 theft from his campaign, longtime defense lawyer Robert Langford filed papers to run against him.