Nevada voters get a new look today at who’s spending money to influence upcoming state and local elections. Candidates in the Nov. 4 election must file new campaign finance reports today. While campaigns have been at full throttle since the primary election this summer, today's report will be the first one since June 6. So far, there have been 17,597 contributions totaling nearly $24 million made to ...
Finding a prescription to make the public hospital financially viable has vexed executives and politicians for more than a decade, and over the past year, UMC’s problems have grown even more acute. The Affordable Care Act blew a $15 million hole in the hospital’s budget, and a delay in reimbursements for new Medicaid patients required UMC to borrow $45 million in emergency loans from Clark County to make payroll. The hospital, owned by Clark County, had ...
A pair of politicians pushed out of their previous office by term limits are trading partisan jobs in a race to become Nevada's chief election officer ...
Same-sex marriage is on its way to Nevada and with it could come millions of dollars in new spending for the state’s economy. Weddings are already a $2.3 billion ...
Dotty’s owner Craig Estey made a rare public appearance at the Clark County Commission today to protest a new law he said is meant to put his company out of business. Estey said the proposed regulations would lead to ...
With the governor’s race shaping up to be a blowout, the spotlight has turned to the undercard: Republican Mark Hutchison vs. Democrat Lucy Flores in what has become ...
The Las Vegas City Council appeared to throw a lifeline today to the embattled downtown stadium proposal by granting a two-month extension to keep working out financial details. But demands by the council ...
A proposed $200 million downtown stadium faces a critical vote before a divided Las Vegas City Council today. The council split a vote on the stadium’s financing terms last month, with ...
The Las Vegas City Council will vote today on a proposed $200 million stadium for Major League Soccer. That may seem like a historic vote for a city with ...
Facing a critical stadium vote by the City Council on Wednesday, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is lobbying for the soccer bid, a long-time campaign to ...
Las Vegas officially unveiled a new financing plan tonight for a proposed $200 million downtown soccer stadium that would shift much of the project’s risk to ...
Three Clark County commissioners are running for another four-year term on the most powerful government body in Southern Nevada. None of the incumbent Democrats ...
Developers behind a proposed $200 million downtown soccer stadium have floated a new financing plan that would cut the risk to the public in an attempt to boost the ...
With three weeks until the voter registration deadline and 500,000 eligible voters still unregistered, Clark County unveiled a series of television spots today urging people to cast their ballots in the November election. The campaign includes Las Vegas notables ...
It’s an election year, and campaign signs have sprouted like weeds on vacant lots. Mailboxes are full of campaign postcards. Voters are sure to see television and Internet ads ...
A downtown soccer stadium isn’t financially viable without a $3 million annual contribution from the city, a developer for the project said. The response came from Port Telles of ...
Telling the crowd to “believe in Las Vegas,” Mayor Carolyn Goodman made an impassioned pitch to bring soccer to downtown during a community meeting. “It’s the last hurrah ...
After a summer-long hiatus, the Clark County Commission is returning to the issue of tavern gaming in an effort to stamp out slot parlors that have proliferated across ...
The Clark County Commission voted today to ban glass bottles on the Las Vegas Strip to prevent them from being used as weapons and to cut down on litter. The measure prohibits anyone from ...
After several canceled public meetings last month, Las Vegas residents will finally get a chance to examine a proposal for a downtown soccer stadium and ask questions about financing in a series of meetings starting tonight. The city council delayed ...
After gutting nearly 90 percent of the state's film tax credit today, Nevada lawmakers signaled they will push to revamp it in 2015. The film tax credit was a passion project for ...
Nevada lawmakers today are debating a $1.3 billion package of tax incentives to recruit Tesla's new battery factory to an industrial center near Reno. For a deal of this size ...
The Legislature will need to pass four bills before Tesla’s $1.3 billion incentive package is finalized. So far, two of the four bills have been released ...
Even with its $1.3 billion in state tax incentives, Tesla Motors could generate $1.24 billion to $1.95 billion in new direct and indirect tax revenues in Nevada over the next 20 years ...
In terms of tourism, Las Vegas is the proverbial Joneses that other cities try to keep up with. And the city is making a big investment to keep it that way ...
Before Nevada's Tesla deal is finalized, Gov. Brian Sandoval will need Southern Nevada lawmakers to sign off on a $1.3 billion tax break that won’t do much to directly benefit Las Vegas. It's unlikely that Southern Nevada lawmakers will ...
As traffic was stopped at Windmill Lane and Eastern Avenue, police said, a man drove around other stopped vehicles, accelerated and hit the officer, who clung to the front of the vehicle and ...
The Las Vegas City Council kept the dream alive for a downtown soccer stadium for another month. But even with that lifeline, the $200 million project faces an uphill battle. After four hours of debate Wednesday, the City Council was deadlocked with three members supporting and three members ...
The Las Vegas City Council has lined up a shot to net the city a downtown soccer stadium. But with lingering concerns about how much public money will be used, the question remains ...
The Henderson City Council decided today to put off any decision to increase property tax rates until after the state Legislature meets next year. City officials have ...
A downtown soccer stadium would generate $23.9 million in revenue per year and a profit of $1.2 million, according to a financial analysis released today by the project’s developer. The estimate includes $10.5 million ...
Sitting near the headwaters of the Colorado River, Denver seems like it would have little reason to worry about the drought that has parched Las Vegas and the Southwest. But ...
When they announced a tentative deal to build a new soccer stadium, Las Vegas city leaders said the public's share of the $200 million stadium would be just 31 percent. On its face, the deal is a bonanza for taxpayers. The public share of recent Major League Soccer stadiums is ...
Drivers in Las Vegas are 15 percent more likely to be in an automobile accident than the national average, putting them in the bottom half of safest drivers in the country, according to study released today by Allstate. ...
A second round of layoffs are coming to University Medical Center, officials announced today, less than six months after the financially troubled hospital had its first batch of layoffs. ...
Clark County Commissioners signaled mixed support today for a proposal to let University Medical Center’s newly formed governing board meet outside the public eye. Commissioners voted 4-3 to ...
Drought-stricken Lake Mead will get a boost next year from an increased delivery of water from an upstream reservoir, the Bureau of Reclamation announced today. But the extra water won’t be enough to stop the continued ...
Starting today, hailing a limousine or town car in Las Vegas is as easy as hitting a button on your smartphone. The new Ride Genie app from locally-based Integrity Vehicle Solutions Co. is the first ...
It’s time to pay up. Clark County property tax bills hit mailboxes this month. The annual bill, if not necessarily enjoyable, is necessary. But each year, a small group of scofflaws choose ...
The Clark County Commission signed off today on plans for a 22,000-seat arena on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip. The approval is a first step for...
The Clark County Commission today declared a state of emergency for Mount Charleston after severe flooding damaged homes and properties in the area last month. The declaration, which still needs ...
Employees in the department responsible for Clark County’s foster care system are calling for changes because of safety concerns and excessive caseloads. Three employees of the...