Questions are being raised about how a man with a documented history of mental health problems — and a recent arrest for erratic behavior at another casino — ended up working in a security-sensitive job at the Horseshoe Las Vegas casino.

The extension made under the Vacancies Reform Act came before Chattah’s temporary 120-day tenure was set to expire on Tuesday, after which judges for the U.S. District Court of Nevada would have had the opportunity to appoint Chattah or another candidate of their choice to the role.

Shane Tamura, who played high school football in California nearly two decades ago but never in the NFL, had a history of mental illness, police said. Investigators found that Tamura drove across the country to New York over the past few days.

Hotel guests heard several shots coming from the resort’s valet area around 7:30 a.m. The suspect had no known connection to the victims, police said, adding that the motive is unknown.

A coalition of 21 Democratic state attorneys general — including Nevada’s — filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration's restrictions on social services for immigrants in the country illegally.

The Nevada law is going into effect for the first time in 40 years after a federal district judge lifted the temporary pause Tuesday afternoon.

Longtime Nye County District Court Judge Kimberly Wanker filed a petition Wednesday with the state Supreme Court seeking “clarification” as to whether the attorney general’s office is legally required to represent judges subject to complaints brought by the state’s Commission on Judicial Discipline.

Charles Morris filed a federal lawsuit in 2018 accusing several state prison medical officials of “callous disregard for my personal health and wellbeing” after he was repeatedly denied back surgery that a doctor had deemed necessary.

Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley said she supports Las Vegas Metropolitan Police’s decision to enter into a partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), known as 287(g), although she said she didn’t push him one way or the other beforehand on joining the program.

Although the order would only affect future births, it could have a profound impact on Nevada. The state has the highest per-capita number of mixed status families in the nation, and more than 12 percent of U.S. born residents in Nevada have at least one immigrant parent.

The agreement, known as 287(g), allows Metro officers to hold undocumented people in custody for an additional two days so ICE can pick them up. It also requires participating Metro personnel to report all encounters with individuals who assert claims of U.S. citizenship to ICE.

Since 2024, billion-dollar companies, including TripAdvisor and Dropbox, relocated to Nevada. More than a dozen others have announced plans to incorporate there.

The high court’s Wednesday ruling does not absolve Lombardo of wrongdoing, but it opens the door for a dismissal of the case down the line.

The final hours of the legislative session may have been the killing blow to the bill, but that isn’t the full explanation.

A federal judge has issued a temporary block on the Trump administration’s cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen states that sued in April.

In a last-minute joint letter to Gov. Joe Lombardo, the Resort Association and Culinary Union urged lawmakers to adopt the proposal reestablishing the court with powers to ban people from the region.

A committee advanced the bill, but with major changes that crack down on smash-and-grab burglaries and increase penalties for certain offenses on the Strip.

Presented in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a nearly six-hour hearing — its first this session — SB457 would impose harsher sentences for repeat offenders and for a large swath of crimes, including lowering the thresholds for burglary to be considered a felony offense.

The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline ruled hat additional complaints had been levied against Fiore, which the group will address at a later date to determine if the suspension will be lifted.

SB350, which passed out of the state Senate in April on a party-line 13-8 vote with Republicans opposed, would lengthen the time frame to carry out an execution after a judge issues a judgment of death.