Downtown Las Vegas developer Derek Stevens is planning a 777-room hotel and casino along the Fremont Street Experience, the first bottom-up resort construction project in years for downtown Las Vegas.
Jamie Munks
Former reporter: City of Las Vegas
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 event put on by Downtown Vegas Alliance included a panel discussion that touched on San Antonio’s Haven for Hope. Las Vegas’ new courtyard project is based in part on the Texas facility.
Red Cross volunteers will install free smoke alarms in Southern Nevada through May 12 as part of the organization’s nationwide Sound the Alarm campaign.
Plans call for the slated wood wall to be replaced by a more elaborate, permanent remembrance wall dedicated to the 58 victims of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas moved one step closer Wednesday to getting its own art museum, slated to be built just east of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Las Vegas city officials modeled a new homeless courtyard after the Haven for Hope in San Antonio, and Thursday night the Texas campus leader will be here to offer his insights.
It’s a question many Las Vegans — from the newly minted transplants to the seasoned desert dwellers — probably have variations of the same answer to: who wants to walk anywhere downtown at 1:30 p.m. in July?
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Wednesday that centers like Las Vegas’ courtyard project make it “easy” for homeless people to access services in one place and can be effective in reducing unsheltered homelessness.
United States Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson will tour a center for homeless youth during a visit to the Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday.
Three crimson columns are among the relics from the landmark that represents desegregation in Las Vegas casinos, but while the Moulin Rouge site’s future hangs in limbo, they lie haphazardly on a dirt lot.
The development group that wants to build on the shuttered Badlands golf course is suing the city of Las Vegas and District Court Judge Jim Crockett, alleging government action and a ruling in a separate lawsuit obstructs their property rights.
The city of Las Vegas soon will launch a mobile crisis unit to respond to people with psychiatric emergencies, part of an ongoing push to connect residents with health care through paths that don’t always end at an emergency room.
The Shade Tree women’s shelter will restart a segment of its transitional housing program at a 16-apartment complex in Las Vegas, but a date for women to move into the units has yet to be set.
The city of Las Vegas is staring down a structural budget deficit, leading City Manager Scott Adams to assemble a task force to start close a multi-million dollar gap a year in advance.
The City Council voted 5-1 on Wednesday to start a competitive bidding process, seeking an outside law firm to represent the city in a potential lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors to recover money spent battling what’s widely considered a national epidemic.