Government officials say the 4-foot-tall posts are strong enough to stop a flatbed truck traveling 55 mph.
Michael Scott Davidson
Reporter: City and county Government
Email: sdavidson@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 477-3861
Michael Scott Davidson sits through government meetings so you don’t have to. The University of Florida graduate began covering Clark County in August 2016. He’s since expanded the beat to include Nevada’s affordable housing shortage and Las Vegas city government.
The steel posts designed to protect pedestrians on sidewalks from vehicles will be installed from West Sahara Avenue to the Welcome to Las Vegas sign beginning next week.
The southeast Las Vegas Valley municipality grew by almost 10,800 people — about 3.6 percent — between July 2017 and 2018, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
UNLV officials presented a dramatically scaled-back plan for their medical education building during Tuesday’s Clark County Commission meeting.
Hundreds gathered at a downtown Las Vegas church on Saturday morning to pay their respects to the late Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson.
The Asian-American population in Clark County has exploded in recent years, in part because of a low cost of living, a business-friendly tax climate and sunny weather.
Las Vegas police have named the 37-year-old man accused of killing his wife with a baseball bat at an apartment complex on Friday.
Two girls under the age of 10 went missing Friday in North Las Vegas, according to police. They were found Saturday in good health, and their mother was arrested.
Another two people were arrested on misdemeanor charges and one person received a misdemeanor citation, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Dora LaGrande wrote a fiery email to Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority board members on Thursday urging them to fire Executive Director Chad Williams.
The openly gay candidate Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg spoke on identity politics and other topics during his keynote speech Saturday night at the 14th annual Human Rights Campaign Las Vegas Dinner.
The Healthy Start program targeted at-risk communities in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, providing support before and during pregnancy and up to two years after childbirth.
Clark County is paying more to help foster children with disabilities in response to Nevada Medicaid diminishing a longtime funding stream.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson, visiting Las Vegas, touts streamlined applications, reduced fees and tax credits as a way to induce developers to build or rehabilitate low-income housing nationwide.
A Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority report accuses a board member of “possible abuse of power, fraud, and embezzlement” of the housing choice voucher program.