Las Vegas is partnering with two educational nonprofits at a cost of nearly $100,000 in an attempt to boost performance at struggling schools in the city’s urban core.
Valley residents and visitors may have found their phones buzzing and chiming unexpectedly during this weekend’s storms as a series of flash flood warnings were broadcast over a system introduced last year by the federal government.
Expanding Internet access and boosting schools are among the items that will be up for discussion before the Las Vegas City Council when it holds its regularly scheduled meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday at city hall, 495 S. Main St. The council’s recommending committee also will weigh in on several proposed ordinances when it meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
New credit card-enabled parking meters being installed this summer in downtown Las Vegas have done away with the time-honored tradition of scrounging around the car for loose change. This fall, the city hopes to eliminate another time-sink for motorists — circling the block for an open parking space — with the introduction of a new smartphone app. The app will tie into new multibay parking meters and use the data collected there to provide a real-time inventory of available city-owned spaces downtown.
Las Vegas public works crews are preparing for another weekend of rain, which could wash ash and soot from the recent Mount Charleston fire into the valley, creating dangerous road conditions in the northwest part of the valley.
Similar board was disbanded about a year ago, but with a few tweaks, commission hopes to
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Clark County commissioners are taking a step back and turning over most of their oversight authority of the financially challenged University Medical Center to an independent advisory board a little more than a year after a similar set-up was shut down due to lack of effectiveness.
For nine days, staff at the Torino Ranch in Lovell Canyon watched as fires raged around them on Mount Charleston and threatened an oasis they’d been working to build for the past 20 years. Located on the southern side of Mount Charleston on 160 acres accessible only by a 12-mile winding road, the ranch has served as a summer camp and idyllic retreat for sick and disabled children since 1999.
Clark County residents could find themselves paying an extra 3 cents per gallon of gasoline to help pay for new road construction under a fuel tax increase discussed Tuesday by the County Commission.
After showering city manager Betsy Fretwell with praise during its most recent meeting, the Las Vegas City Council voiced unanimous support for giving Fretwell a raise, her first since 2009. Fretwell’s annual salary is now just over $183,000, placing her as the 15th-highest-paid public employee among local municipal governments.
Taxes, wireless internet access also on commission's agenda
Monday, July 15, 2013
Clark County commissioners will get an outside opinion on an issue that has divided the board for months — how best to run University Medical Center — when they meet Wednesday as the hospital board of trustees.
As aircraft buzz Mount Charleston spewing red clouds of fire retardant, crews below are busy mixing thousands of gallons of the concoction that is slowing the wildfire creeping across the mountain.
Since opening in an east Las Vegas neighborhood in 1996, the Desert Pines Golf Course has played an important role in the revitalization of the area while offering residents an affordable place to play a round.
Las Vegas firefighters will get slight raises each of the next three years under a new collective bargaining agreement approved by the City Council on Wednesday.
Las Vegas City Council will discuss contracts with several unions, may officially hire new fire chief and consider bills regarding booze downtown at meeting
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
A yearlong stalemate between Las Vegas and its firefighters union could be resolved when the City Council considers a new four-year contract Wednesday. The council also will discuss the status of its other collective bargaining negotiations and approve the appointment of a new fire chief during its regularly scheduled meeting.
Food truck vendors looking for a safe space to set up shop along the streets of downtown Las Vegas should motor over to City Hall by July 22 to apply for a new pilot program being launched by the city.
For residents of the 400 homes that make up the Mount Charleston community, forest fires like the one currently burning on more than 15,000 acres there are disasters that can be prepared for but not entirely protected against.
Clark County commissioners though they’d hit the jackpot in 2011 when a Chinese company offered to buy 9,000 acres of county-owned land near Laughlin with the intent to build a multibillion-dollar solar panel factory and farm there.
The iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign could soon be powered by the sun if the efforts of a local group of environmental advocates are successful.
Each year, local governments release summary data listing the salary and benefits of each employee. The Sun collected this data to examine the size and scope of government in Southern Nevada.
Festival likely to have generated millions in economic impact; DJs can still be found in town
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
With their fuzzy boots and neon tutus safely packed away, revelers continue to stream out of Las Vegas after three nights of partying from dusk until dawn at the Electric Daisy Carnival.
This weekend’s Electric Daisy Carnival will draw tens of thousands of revelers to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. But before attendees can shake their fuzzy boots while listening to dance music from some of the world’s top DJs, they’ll have to contend with the crush of traffic that has become a regular companion to the annual festival.
The North Las Vegas City Council has voted to move forward with a controversial plan that calls for the city to use its powers of eminent domain to help underwater homeowners refinance their mortgages.
Renovating and rehabilitating older buildings in downtown Las Vegas will be a bit easier and cheaper after the city council voted Wednesday to relax its energy efficiency standards.
Months of public meetings, behind-the-scenes lobbying and fierce attack ads will reach a culmination Wednesday night when the North Las Vegas City Council considers whether to move forward with a plan that would use eminent domain to help underwater homeowners refinance their mortgages.
Competition and controversy were on the menu Tuesday when Clark County commissioners awarded a lucrative contract to provide meals at two of its jails to a more experienced – but more expensive – company.
The decision to replace the controversial coroner’s inquests into officer-involved shootings with a new hearing format split the Clark County Commission in January. But six months and three hearings later, commissioners had few complaints when the new process was brought up for review.
A months-long debate about how to balance business development with sustainability could come to an end Wednesday when the Las Vegas City Council considers a bill that would loosen energy efficiency standards for older buildings.
Submitting land-use applications and plans for residential and commercial projects in Las Vegas has been made as easy as clicking a button, thanks to a new online system unveiled Monday.
Clark County commissioners will weigh in on a pair of hot topics – University Medical Center and officer-involved shootings – at their regular meeting at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at the Clark County Government Center.
Nearly a year after she was terminated from her job with the Las Vegas Township Constable’s Office, former Deputy Constable Kristy Henderson is fighting back with a lawsuit.
A Chinese-backed company is pulling the plug on a multibillion-dollar solar project near Laughlin after it was unable to find customers for the power that would have been generated there, a Clark County spokesman said Friday.
The leader of a group of Californians accused of stealing information from Las Vegas bank card readers and ATMs in order to make counterfeit cards was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges last year.
Two men have been charged in the April slaying of a man they were allegedly trying to steal money from, according to a criminal complaint released Friday. Eric Orduna and Jonathan Reyes each face six charges.
A Las Vegas man has been arrested on counts of murder and child abuse after a 16-month-old child he was watching died Thursday at University Medical Center.
Lights. Camera. Tax credits. All Las Vegas’ fledgling film industry is missing is the action, and proponents are touting Gov. Brian Sandoval’s signing of a tax incentive bill for film productions as the next step toward bringing a bit of Hollywood to Las Vegas. The bill’s signing late Tuesday had Mayor Carolyn Goodman reminiscing the next morning about when “Casino”-mania swept the city when director Martin Scorsese filmed here in the mid 1990s. “I just remember what it did for the economy here and the amount of dollars that were spent,” she said at a press conference Wednesday at City Hall.
It started with heartfelt testimonials from homeowners struggling with underwater mortgages and ended with warnings of disaster from representatives of the banking and real estate industries.
For the past two years, representatives from Mortgage Resolution Partners have traveled to cities around the country to pitch local governments on a plan to help underwater homeowners keep their homes.
The District Attorney’s Office is extending its policy of responding to the scene of officer-involved shootings to include shootings where somebody is injured but not killed.
The competition to land a job as a Las Vegas firefighter is heating up after a pool of 500 applicants was filled in less than half an hour Monday morning.
When George Racz moved his “Copper Angels,” a gigantic pair of German-made pot stills, into a warehouse in Henderson in 2011 to start the state’s first craft distillery, no one but Racz was sure his distillery could make it.
When she received a telephone call earlier this year offering to help her refinance her underwater mortgage for $4,500, Lola Orbik was skeptical, but her skepticism led her to Home Again. "What I’m doing these days is housecleaning. These people have given me a house to clean,” she said.
A proposal to relax the city's building energy codes to make renovating older buildings cheaper for business owners has hit a snag after the Attorney General's Office found the changes conflict with state statute.
Las Vegas’ new city hall building has been named one of the top public works projects of the year by a national organization, the city announced Tuesday.
Clark County commissioners are throwing out the bids for a drug-testing services contract and starting the process over after concerns were raised about awarding the $550,000 contract to an out-of-state vendor. But those concerns aren't helping a local applicant land the bid.
One race each in Henderson, North Las Vegas and Mesquite will be decided by voters during today’s general election. Polls in the three cities will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.