- Cosmetology training center coming to North Las Vegas
- Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015
- A local cosmetology school is planning to build a new training facility in North Las Vegas with the help of a $1.25 million federal grant announced today. Expertise Cosmetology Institute, the region’s first ...
- Clark County Commission passes More Cops sales tax hike
- Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015
- The Clark County Commission has approved increasing the sales tax rate from 8.1 percent to 8.15 percent starting in January to pay for more than 100 new officers at ...
- Marilyn Kirkpatrick sworn in as newest Clark County commissioner
- Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015
- Former Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick was sworn in as a Clark County commissioner today, replacing Tom Collins, who recently resigned. Kirkpatrick was ...
- Tight Nevada testing rules constrict supply of medical marijuana
- Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015
- With Southern Nevada's first dispensary now open after months of red tape, medical marijuana cultivators are facing growing pains as they grapple with the state's strict testing standards. Laboratory tests, required before medical marijuana can be sold, that growers have failed have led to pounds of marijuana being destroyed, constricting supply and ...
- Metro finally may get More Cops
- Monday, Aug. 31, 2015
- It has taken 10 years, three sheriffs and four failed proposals to get to this point, but starting next year, Clark County sales tax likely will rise, with the proceeds used to pay for more police officers. The Clark County Commission will vote Sept. 1 on a revised ...
- Who really has rights to Nevada land?
- Monday, Aug. 31, 2015
- Standoffs between private landowners and the federal government, which owns most of Nevada’s land, have been well-publicized. The latest has a religious twist, with ...
- Accidental zoo holds out hope that it can remain open
- Monday, Aug. 31, 2015
- When veterinarians Valerie and Jay Holt moved in 2006 to a rural neighborhood in Moapa with a pack of 15 kangaroos and wallabies, they had no intention of starting a zoo. But after adding lemurs, a monitor lizard, an alligator, snakes, birds and other exotic species to a menagerie that grew to more than 200 animals, that’s exactly what they ended up with. In 2009, they started ...
- BLM to try to save hundreds of imperiled wild horses near Las Vegas
- Friday, Aug. 28, 2015
- The Bureau of Land Management will be rounding up as many as 200 wild horses near Las Vegas starting Saturday to provide the animals veterinary care and food and water to protect them from ...
- Sandoval hails court injunction on EPA water rules
- Friday, Aug. 28, 2015
- Nevada lawmakers are hailing a North Dakota district court's ruling that temporarily blocks a Environmental Protection Agency rule that would have given the federal government more control over Nevada's ...
- Conservative group attacks Reid over Iran deal
- Friday, Aug. 28, 2015
- A conservative nonprofit foreign policy group is targeting Sen. Harry Reid with online ads over his support for ...
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