Plans for a 350,000-square-foot expo and convention center in downtown Las Vegas got a push forward Wednesday, with an endorsement from the city’s redevelopment agency.
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.
A slew of barriers block the expansion of affordable housing in Southern Nevada — rising rents, low inventory and private sources sitting untapped while thousands of people on wait lists for public and transitional housing.
The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office is holding a public comment period on a proposal to lease roughly three acres of public land to the city of Las Vegas for a park.
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.
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.
The owners of the Badlands golf course in Las Vegas filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the city and Councilmen Steve Seroka and Bob Coffin, claiming bias and arguing city officials’ handling of plans to develop the course have violated their 14th Amendment rights.
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.
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.”
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.
On her 577th consecutive day of sobriety, Juanita McAbee recoiled at a picture of her former self.
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.