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Who assumes biggest financial risk of a Las Vegas stadium? Panel tackles issue in latest meeting: Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016; What’s the risk each side of the stadium debate is willing to take? That question framed much of the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee meeting Thursday afternoon as developers and public leaders tried to inch closer to a proposal that could trigger a recommendation to Gov. Brian Sandoval. The developers made ...
Commissioners could name CFO as next Clark County manager: Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016; Clark County’s next manager could be its chief financial officer. The County Commission will consider appointing Yolanda King as the next county manager at ...
As Las Vegas' NFL stadium marches toward reality, burning questions remain: Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016; Las Vegas is no stranger to stadium pipe dreams. Over the years, developers have proposed building a slew of eye-catching, if not improbable, stadiums. (Remember the complex pitched for land near the M Resort in Henderson? Or the UNLV Now project?) Most ideas …
Panel zeroes in on tourism projects, but stadium recommendation pending: Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016; After more than a year of meetings, the group Gov. Brian Sandoval created to identify and vet tourism-related projects is zeroing in on its recommendations. The Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee has offered a glimpse of ...
Help for the helpers: HIV outreach center needs a new home: Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016; Given astronomical medical costs, HIV-positive people and their families often need help affording basics such as food and clothing. That’s where the St. Therese Center and its volunteers come into play, offering a variety of services, including haircuts and an on-site food pantry ...
Developers: No negotiating on $750 million for proposed NFL stadium: Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016; Developers of a proposed NFL stadium in Las Vegas held firm that the public contribution for the project must be $750 million. Timing is …
UNLV program teaches students to design health care facilities: Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016; Lighting, wall color, acoustics and hallway shapes may seem like aesthetic-based choices in the world of interior design, but when it comes to health care environments, those decisions can impact patient success.
Soon, students from Las Vegas could be helping ...
Government consolidation doesn’t make cut for Las Vegas bill draft requests: Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016; The Las Vegas City Council isn’t requesting a draft bill for the state Legislature to study consolidating the city and county governments, but that doesn’t mean the issue is dead.
After a brief special meeting today ...
Westside School renovation: Historic property’s makeover signals greater community 'comeback': Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016; On a recent morning, Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Barlow stood on the Historic Westside School campus, gazing at what was once the cafeteria. He remembered the home-cooked rice, corn bread, black-eyed peas and fried chicken served to students, as he had attended a Head Start program at Las Vegas’ oldest schoolhouse ...
Clark County manager stepping down later this year: Friday, Aug. 19, 2016; Clark County Manager Don Burnette announced plans today to leave his post this year. Burnette sent an email to Clark County …
L.V. Council clears complaint to discipline crime-plagued Larry’s Villa: Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016; The Las Vegas City Council approved a complaint for disciplinary action Wednesday against Larry’s Villa, a crime-plagued bar and strip club that city officials have deemed a public nuisance ...
Amid squabbles, talk of city-county consolidation resurfaces: Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016; Would local residents be better off if the Clark County and city of Las Vegas governments merged? The decades-old question ...
Clark County identifies its bill priorities for legislative session: Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016; With the biennial legislative session just months away, local politicians and governmental entities are busy deciding what their priorities will be come January ...
Final Riviera tower imploded, closing chapter of Las Vegas history: Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016; Boom. And it’s gone. Blasts razed the final tower of the Riviera early Tuesday morning, putting to rest that piece of Las Vegas history. The tower fell at precisely 2:30 a.m. Today’s implosion ...
Home sweet history: Preservationists focus on Old Vegas neighborhoods: Monday, Aug. 15, 2016; There’s a place in Las Vegas where postal workers still deliver mail door to door, where towering trees cast shadows across large yards hugging houses in spring shades of pink, blue and green — a tapestry that, despite its oddities, feels harmonious. Never stray from ...
Latest pay raise makes Las Vegas city manager highest paid of region: Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016; Las Vegas City Manager Betsy Fretwell is officially the highest paid government manager in Southern Nevada. After singing her praises, the Las Vegas City Council today unanimously approved ...
New vision for North Las Vegas under Choice Neighborhood Initiative: Saturday, July 30, 2016; The process began in January 2015, when the city received a $485,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The two-year planning grant requires the city to work directly with residents to craft a new vision that focuses on improving housing, educational and job opportunities as well as creating ...
Committee focuses on sales tax to bolster Metro Police: Thursday, July 28, 2016; The quest to bolster police presence in tourist-heavy locations took a step forward today as the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee considered funding options and narrowed in on …
Metro agrees to pay $200K to settle woman's excessive-force lawsuit: Monday, July 25, 2016; A woman who accused a Metro Police officer of using excessive force against her last year will receive a $200,000 settlement. The department’s Fiscal Affairs Committee approved ...
Las Vegas golf has reached a pivotal point: Monday, July 25, 2016; It was a sweltering 106 degrees when Megan Mashore adjusted her stance under the shade of a Topgolf roofline. Music, chatter and the thwack of clubs smashing golf balls filled the air around her. In front of her, the Las Vegas Strip glittered. “Just swing, right?” she said, eliciting chuckles from her husband, their two young boys and ...
City: Consider Cashman site as a home for new Las Vegas stadium: Wednesday, July 20, 2016; The city of Las Vegas has a message for stakeholders involved in football stadium discussions: Keep Cashman Center in the running as a potential project site. To that end, the City Council today passed a motion to …
Commission expands diversion program for illegal peddling: Tuesday, July 19, 2016; People caught illegally selling goods on the Las Vegas Strip may avoid criminal prosecution and jail time if they qualify for a recently established ...
Does UNLV need a more fabulous look?: Many changes are on the table to welcome people to Las Vegas’ only public university; Monday, July 18, 2016; A brick-and-stone sign flanked by desert landscaping sits at the corner of Tropicana Avenue and Swenson Street, announcing UNLV’s presence. It’s a modest entryway to the region’s only public university, where more than 28,000 students attend classes each year, mere blocks from ...
Communication modernization: Las Vegas governments turn to social media: Thursday, July 14, 2016; Gone are the days of communication limited to public meeting agendas, emergency bulletins, dull government television broadcasts and whatever information ...
Blueprints for holding a national political party convention: Monday, July 11, 2016; Cleveland and Philadelphia are bracing for the national political conventions. As power players in Nevada politics have vowed to get Las Vegas in the running the next time around, we take a look at the impacts on a city when about 50,000 people descend for a cultural happening ...
County's proposal to boost Metro Police funding by $1 million is stalled: Wednesday, July 6, 2016; The Clark County Commission's proposal to give Metro Police an additional $1 million has fizzled for now. The extra six-figure sum — above and beyond the county's budgeted contribution to the police department — would have gone toward hiring more officers, but the proposal came with a caveat: The city of Las Vegas needed to contribute another $600,000, per the department's funding formula. The total budget augmentation, in that case, would be roughly $1.6 million. That amount would have covered the cost of hiring one sergeant, two detectives and ...
Scouring the city for the tastiest and most creative specialty food: Monday, July 4, 2016; Making food personal is the mark of any good chef, whether in a Michelin-starred restaurant or a stand at a flea market. And more and more eaters want to connect with the stories, family recipes and fever dreams behind the flavor. Here’s to the culinary artists and mad scientists of Las Vegas ...
Health department issues warning about mosquitos carrying encephalitis virus: Wednesday, June 29, 2016; A sharp increase in mosquitoes carrying the St. Louis Encephalitis virus locally triggered the Southern Nevada Health District to ...
Officials didn't completely shut door on expanding trauma care in Las Vegas: Friday, June 24, 2016; The board governing health-related decisions in Clark County entered its Thursday meeting with a mission to answer one looming question: Is the current trauma system meeting the region's needs? The answer was less clear-cut ...
Health district board denies requests to expand trauma centers: Thursday, June 23, 2016; No additional trauma centers will be added to the current system in Southern Nevada. The Southern Nevada Health District's Board of Health voted 7-2 against expanding ...
County jail population soars, triggering depopulation order: Wednesday, June 22, 2016; The steadily increasing inmate population at Clark County-run detention facilities has triggered a depopulation order that authorities say will help reduce overcrowding ...
Bulky bags, strollers banned on Strip for special events: Tuesday, June 21, 2016; Rules governing what people can carry on the Las Vegas Strip during special events just got stricter. A new public safety-motivated ordinance bans bags of a certain size, coolers and strollers, among other items, during occasions such as ...
City Council adopts new master plan for downtown Las Vegas: Wednesday, June 15, 2016; The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday formally adopted a 30-year vision for downtown, setting in motion the most crucial part — implementation. The new downtown master plan has been nearly two years in the making, involving ...
New program will allow drivers to pay parking fines with donated food, toys, school supplies: Wednesday, June 15, 2016; Hate parking fines but like helping others? You’re in luck. The city of Las Vegas will pilot a program that will allow people who receive parking tickets during two designated times of the year to donate nonperishable food ...
Council supports naming plaza for former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman: Wednesday, June 15, 2016; Oscar Goodman already has a restaurant bearing his name in downtown Las Vegas. Soon, the former Las Vegas mayor may have a plaza ...
Vying for Clark County Commission District B seat, Kirkpatrick and Ross bring experience: Tuesday, June 14, 2016; For left-leaning primary voters, the decision may come down to what type of political pedigree they prefer.
After almost three decades, a passionate protector leaves Mount Charleston: Thursday, June 9, 2016; “She will be missed,” neighbor Mike McGroarty said of longtime Mount Charleston resident Becky Grismanauskas. ““verything that got done up there was done through her.” But, as the old saying goes, what ...
Clark County, Las Vegas officials tussle over Metro funding: Tuesday, June 7, 2016; Who’s the bigger supporter of public safety? As violent crime rises in Southern Nevada, the Clark County Commission and Las Vegas City Council are battling for ...
Clark County Commission wants further study of multiple transit proposals: Tuesday, June 7, 2016; The Clark County Commission put light rail back on its radar Tuesday, urging that multiple proposals to improve traffic flow near the Las Vegas Strip be more thoroughly studied. The board, at the suggestion of Chairman Steve Sisolak …
What Las Vegas can learn from Detroit when it comes to revitalization: Tuesday, June 7, 2016; When it comes to cities Las Vegas should emulate as it grows and evolves, Detroit might not take first billing on most residents’ lists. After all, the Motor City made national headlines ...
Mobile farmer’s market takes healthy food to those who can afford it least: Saturday, June 4, 2016; Rosalind Brooks, founder of the Vegas Roots community garden, has a motto when it comes to food: “Just because people can’t afford farmer’s market prices doesn’t mean ...Rosalind Brooks, founder of the Vegas Roots community garden, has a motto when it comes to food: “Just because people can’t afford farmer’s market prices doesn’t mean ...
Officials call for upkeep at shuttered northwest L.V. golf course: Wednesday, June 1, 2016; The water-starved Silverstone Golf Club has become an eyesore, threatening vegetation and property values in this northwest valley neighborhood ...
University of Phoenix opening innovation center in Las Vegas: Tuesday, May 31, 2016; Calling all entrepreneurs and business visionaries: An 11,000-square-foot space in downtown Las Vegas could become a hub for turning business ideas into reality.
In September, the University of Phoenix expects to ...
Graduation day: Inmates’ inspiring academic feats can ripple through community: Thursday, May 26, 2016; As Rosalinda Leach approached the podium, she adjusted her glasses and eyed the audience — mostly women dressed in head-to-toe blue or donning maroon caps and gowns ...
Brookings analysis: Net metering benefits all ratepayers, not just solar users: Monday, May 23, 2016; A new Brookings Institution analysis indicates that net metering of solar power yields benefits for all ratepayers — not just customers generating their own electricity through ...
Can community members paint taggers into a corner?: Sunday, May 22, 2016; A boxy, red-brick building at 1820 Desert Inn Road has become ground zero for what neighbors describe as a war — residents versus graffiti taggers. If the abandoned medical office, which bears the scars of repeated graffiti vandalism, is the prime target, then its neighbors are the collateral damage. Nearby property owners say the rampant spray-paint inscriptions hurt home values and bruise their attempts to revitalize ...
Las Vegas OKs $1.2B budget, continues long climb out of recession: Wednesday, May 18, 2016; The Las Vegas City Council today voted unanimously to approve a $1.2 billion budget for the next fiscal year, marking the first time spending and income exceeded 2008 levels since ...
Councilman: Improve pedestrian safety along Charleston Boulevard: Wednesday, May 18, 2016; Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Coffin is calling for pedestrian safety improvements, particularly along Charleston Boulevard, where sidewalks are often blocked by streetlight and utility poles. His comments came during a presentation of ...
Vision test: Is the city of Las Vegas meeting its plan for 2020?: Wednesday, May 18, 2016; It happened before terrorists rammed planes into the World Trade Centers, before the recession rattled Southern Nevada and before Zappos triggered urban revitalization by moving its company headquarters to downtown Las Vegas. Back in the late 1990s ...
Commission signals intent to transfer land for medical school: Tuesday, May 17, 2016; Future medical students attending the UNLV School of Medicine most likely will be training and learning in the heart of the Las Vegas Medical District. The Clark County Commission today approved ...