Officials in Southern Nevada have launched a new awareness strategy primarily aimed at people who might be too young to remember the devastating consequences of a flash flood, like the one of historic proportions that occurred in Las Vegas on July 8, 1999.

Last week, Las Vegas signed onto a resolution from the U.S. Conference of Mayors — cosponsored by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young — in which member cities agreed not to pay ransoms related to malware attacks, just weeks after Baltimore paid more than $18 million to rebuild its systems after a ransomware attack.

In the middle of the night, a blond-haired, 13-year old boy woke up startled from a nightmare. This wasn’t the first time. Kyler Nipper struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, which stems from an incident in 2016:  He was stabbed in the hallway of his middle school for the worn-out shoes he was wearing. But this particular summer night, Kyler Nipper had a solution.

Uber and Lyft have a new competitor — the Regional Transportation Commission. The RTC has launched an on-demand ride-share service called “Trip to Strip,” which shuttles passengers to various locations within the tourist corridor.

Immigrant advocates in Nevada and elsewhere in the country have called for an end to the agreements when they expire June 30, arguing that they expend local resources on federal priorities, erode trust between immigrant communities and local law enforcement and trigger deportation proceedings against people with low-level offenses.

Clark County commissioners approved $6.1 million on Tuesday for programs that would help homeless people transition into permanent housing and heard a presentation about 1,200 new affordable housing units that will debut in several months.

The matchup between former Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz and neighborhood activist Melissa Clary for the Ward 3 Las Vegas City Council seat is too close to call based on absentee ballot and early vote results. But Brian Knudsen and Victoria Seaman have taken significant leads in their respective bids for the Ward 1 and Ward 2 seats.

The amendment, proposed by Democratic state Sen. Yvanna Cancela, allows county commissions to raise the sales tax by one quarter of one percent to fund “joint labor-management programs of workforce training in the hospitality industry,” including those run by the Culinary Union.

Former Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz and activist Melissa Clary garnered enough votes to oust Kihuen in the primary election. The two women are facing off in next week’s general election for the Ward 3 council seat. But it’s not the only seat up for grabs that day: Candidates are vying to represent Ward 1 and Ward 2 as well.

Those electoral changes are the result of AB50, a bill backed by Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s office that would require the eight Nevada cities that currently hold municipal elections in odd-numbered years to move their election schedules to even-numbered years starting in 2022.

Democratic Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson’s AB309, which awaits the governor’s signature, would give county commissions the power to increase the sales tax by one quarter of one percent. In Clark County, the levy could raise an estimated $106 million a year, although critics have noted the sales tax burden is already relatively high and the tax disproportionately affects low-income residents.

Lou Lacey was a homeless man in Las Vegas for three years. Now, he is the director of an outreach program working to get Las Vegas homeless people from the streets to housing as well as provide outreach social services.

According to a draft of the bill, the legislation would allow the city council to place a measure on the ballot in 2020 asking voters whether they want to increase the property tax by up to 0.05 percent. The move, first reported by the Reno Gazette Journal, could raise about $4 million per year for the city.

The Las Vegas City Council next week will consider entering into an exclusive negotiating agreement that could yield a mixed-use downtown development and new soccer stadium.

The bill, AB533, would add some clarity on the legally murky issue of allowing venues where marijuana can be publicly consumed. But as amended, it appears to throw a wrench in the plans for the city of Las Vegas, which has moved forward on regulating such lounges.

An order issued by Nevada District Court Judge Robert Jones on Monday dismissed a sexual harassment claim filed against Antinoro by a former deputy, Melanie Keener, but allows her claims related to emotional duress and civil rights violations to proceed. No trial date has been set, but it is likely to come sometime this year.

Clark County Commission Chairwoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick pushed for more progress on the long-awaited UNLV School of Medicine building during a board meeting Tuesday.