The Clark County Commission approved the funds to support the economic recovery of 2,800-plus local small businesses battered by statewide closures.
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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.
Gov. Steve Sisolak said Tuesday the Nevada National Guard would be deployed to Las Vegas to assist police, one day after an officer was shot in the head on the Strip during a protest turned violent.
National and state Republican officials sued Clark County on Monday, accusing officials of making a “shady backroom deal” with Democrats over the conduct of the June 9 mail-in primary election.
Las Vegas records show city staff was involved in creating a video in which people praised Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who’d been criticized for comments about reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Clark County Government Center and other county facilities will start to reopen Monday with health and safety measures in place for the public including mandated social distancing and recommended face coverings.
Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly on Monday is hosting a Facebook town hall to answer questions that businesses might have as they get set to reopen.
More than 1,200 coronavirus tests were administered during the first day of operations for the new community-based site at UNLV on Wednesday.
In Environment America Research and Policy Center’s seventh annual report on solar energy in major American cities, Las Vegas ranks seventh in solar energy supply per capita and 10th in total supply.
Clark County officials hope the relocation of the coronavirus testing site to UNLV will capture data from a population thus far underreported: children.
More than 1,300 city of Las Vegas employees could receive a 3-percent hazard pay bonus in early July whether or not they were working during the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the city’s largest labor union said Friday.
Soon after Elon Musk sent a since-deleted tweet about moving its headquarters, top Las Vegas officials began orchestrating plans to engage the executive.
Las Vegas city officials revealed how they want to use the vast majority of $119 million in federal coronavirus relief funding.
Officials will submit a $572 million budget to the state June 1, balanced in large part by pared-back personnel spending and use of a special fund.
The Las Vegas City Council decided Wednesday it will appoint outgoing City Attorney Brad Jerbic’s replacement from within City Hall. Jerbic said he believed the lone applicant would be Bryan Scott.