One recession brought Betsy Fretwell in Las Vegas 26 years ago, and a different downturn dealt her one of the toughest challenges in her time here.
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If licensing proceedings for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada’s Nye County, arguments will be based on arcane computer models of what might or might not happen over a million years.
Recently ousted Las Vegas judge Heidi Almase sent out mailers this week apologizing for a negative flyer her campaign sent out criticizing criminal defense attorneys while she was running for re-election.
A development plan that would convert the Badlands golf course into houses and condominiums might be up in flames after a fiery Las Vegas City Council meeting Wednesday night.
Wednesday’s marathon Las Vegas City Council meeting acted as a sendoff for City Manager Betsy Fretwell and Councilmen Bob Beers and Steve Ross.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday voted 4-3 in favor of passing new regulations for short-term rentals in its borders.
Keeping its century old skull-and-propeller shoulder patch for its pilots and ground crew, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School reactivated the 6th Weapons Squadron on Tuesday at Nellis Air Force Base as a new home for F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighter jets.
For the better part of a decade, Las Vegas Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian has wanted new rules governing short-term residential rentals in the city.
Rafael Lopez was brought to the U.S. from Mexico as a child, graduated from UNLV, works in a job he loves and also owns a car. None of these accomplishments would have been possible without the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, he said.
North Las Vegas resident later worked as tireless veterans advocate and helped shape “stolen valor” laws aimed at war hero pretenders.
Gift shops around the valley peddle almost every kind of merchandise imaginable with “Las Vegas” splashed across it, but starting next week a new store will start selling city-sanctioned swag.
Tomi Lahren has news for the haters. Although her show on The Blaze was canceled this year after she defended abortion rights, the 24-year-old UNLV graduate and high-profile political provocateur is far from finished in the conservative media sphere.
A pared-down but still contentious plan to develop the shuttered Badlands golf course will be heard next week by the Las Vegas City Council, the third time in seven months the panel has mulled a large-scale residential proposal for the 250-acre property.
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore will return to public office after pulling out a narrow victory over Kelli Ross in the Ward 6 City Council race.
The Las Vegas City Council will have a decidedly different look for the next four years, as Steve Seroka triumphed in his challenge to defeat Councilman Bob Beers in Ward 2.