Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders led students in Reno and Las Vegas on a march to early voting caucus sites, saying big turnout is the key to winning the 2020 election. In Las Vegas, candidates campaigned on the final day of early voting.
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Shea joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018 to cover City Hall and Clark County. He previously spent six years at the Desert Dispatch and Daily Press newspapers located in the High Desert of Southern California, where he covered politics at city, county and state levels. Shea has won three California Newspaper Publishers Association awards for his work. In 2018 he was a California Journalism Awards finalist for investigative reporting. He is an unapologetic Chicago sports fan, excluding only the White Sox.
The Las Vegas City Council will consider leasing downtown land to Zappos for a special events facility and public tavern, with an eye-catching centerpiece.
“It’s the most consistent day,” county Clerk Lynn Goya said. “When it falls on a weekend, it’s a great time for us.”
In the dispute over stalled residential development on the defunct Badlands golf course in Las Vegas, a resolution seems unlikely as city legal fees rise past the $2 million mark.
The proposed 25,000-seat stadium is expected to be the precursor to efforts to secure a Major League Soccer expansion franchise.
The Nevada Democratic Party’s digital director said Monday the party is working hard to ensure a smooth caucus later this month, but details about how early votes will be tabulated and counted on caucus day remained scarce.
Developer Michael Lentine, founder of EarthArtist Studios, asked for equal consideration for a site that the city is consideration for a home for a Major League Soccer stadium.
A Clark County employee claims he was subjected to discrimination as a black Muslim and then retaliated against for complaining about the hostile work environment.
“You left nothing on the table,” the new chief of the Clark County Fire Department told outgoing Chief Greg Cassell, during a change of command ceremony on Thursday.
The City Council on Wednesday unanimously denied the applicant, Nevada CRT, a special use permit needed to move forward on the northeast corner of Sahara Avenue and Fort Apache Road.
A firefighter with the Las Vegas Fire Department claimed to have worked thousands of unreported or underreported overtime hours over a three-year span.
In a direct response to the deadliest residential fire in city history, Las Vegas officials presented details Wednesday of a proactive inspection and progressive enforcement plan for apartments and similar properties.
New playground, rock removal have delayed the nearly $2 million expansion that was initially expected to wrap up last fall.
The wireless telecommunications industry is wrestling with Clark County and other municipalities over the costs of small cell sites.
A Las Vegas park named for Metropolitan Police Department Officer Alyn Beck, who was killed in the line of duty in 2014, celebrated its grand opening Friday.
