The number of unlicensed short-term rentals in Las Vegas has dropped by hundreds since the city began working with a company that has identified out-of-compliance home-sharing hosts.
Jamie Munks
Jamie Munks covered the city of Las Vegas for the Review-Journal from May 2016 to September 2018. She covered education, business and local government in newsrooms in upstate New York after graduating in 2009 from Syracuse University with journalism and political science degrees. More recently, she covered government in Springfield, Illinois, her home state’s capital city.
The 1,224,485-square-foot resort that will replace them will tower 459 feet over Fremont Street on the north side of the Fremont Street Experience, across the pedestrian mall from the Golden Gate casino.
The city of Las Vegas is poised to pay a former fire training officer $90,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit stemming from 2013 recruit testing that gained attention due to cheating allegations.
The free city services app’s Community Services section will include information about the city’s Courtyard Homeless Resource Center, other local homeless service providers and meal times.
City councils in Clark County are voting one-by-one on a new agreement with the county election department that would allow voters in city elections to cast ballots at vote centers, regardless of jurisdiction.
The Bench of Unknown Souls in Woodlawn Cemetery, dedicated on Memorial Day, sits in the cemetery’s O section, the burial site for African-Americans before desegregation.
Nevada Democrats on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, characterizing him as “anti-choice.”
Sherman Avery Ray is jumping in to the race for the Las Vegas’ Ward 1 City Council seat.
The newest feature at Gilcrease Brothers Park in the northwest valley is the first of its kind in Las Vegas: the hunter green sensory wall is designed for children with autism.
A teenager died after an incident Tuesday evening when bystanders saw him having difficulty swimming in Lake Mohave in the Lake Mead National Recreational Area.
Newly released body camera footage shows one established triage area where victims with gunshot wounds were sent the night of Oct. 1, and the struggle to tend to their injuries with limited resources.
Despite recreational marijuana use being legal for more than a year in Nevada, Las Vegas’ roughly 42 million annual visitors don’t have many options for where they can use the pot they buy in local dispensaries. State law bans public consumption, and casinos and hotels don’t allow people to consume cannabis on their properties.
The Las Vegas City Council authorized Wednesday up to $200,000 to hire outside attorneys to defend the city in multiple lawsuits filed over rejected plans to develop the Badlands golf course.
New rules for Las Vegas pet shops would give the city more teeth to enforce where the animals sold in the city are coming from.
Particularly after his son spent a month at University Medical Center last year, Knudsen began to see an integrated health care model for children as “absolutely critical,” and he calls it a “dream” for a new children’s hospital to be built in the medical district.