Teen’s pragmatic approach involves warning people who use drugs about contaminated supplies in the community to keep them safer.

Fifty years after moving to Las Vegas, the Goodmans are wrapping up a quarter of a century during which one or the other has been the city’s mayor.

The two largest cities in Nevada are trying to overturn court decisions that said sweeping people from an encampment when there is no room at local shelters “cruel and unusual.”

Since July 2022, 988 has received more than 6 million calls, texts and chats. There were more than 38,000 contacts from Nevada and routed to the state.

Candidates agreed that public safety and keeping police funded was important to run a “world-class city,” and that addressing homelessness is one of the city’s major pressing concerns, with most of the speakers suggesting that people sleeping on sidewalks hurt business and tourism.

Usual guidelines went to the wayside at Wednesday’s North Las Vegas City Council meeting when Mayor Pamela Goynes-Brown nominated Councilman Isaac Barron, a Rancho High School teacher, as its nonvoting member on the board.

Gilbert noted additional funds would be credited to the district by reducing the billing rate for Sears.

The costs for the first two months have totaled about $110,000, and if costs continue at the current pace, the district is set to exceed its annual budget for legal services in October — just three months after hiring Gilbert.

A Nevada Commission on Ethics review panel has recommended the commission develop an opinion on an allegation that Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve violated ethics laws when she failed to disclose a professional relationship with a law firm that also worked on a home development project that came before the council.

Out of the 1,170 pre-applications for short-term rental unit licenses, just 255 applications were submitted by the original deadline. The applications submitted after the extended deadline brought the total to 830.

As the nights lengthen and summer fades into autumn, Northern Nevada housing advocates are calling on their leaders to prioritize preventing weather-related deaths, although local government officials say one of the major proposals is unworkable for now. 

“A lawyer who has no expertise in a particular area can ethically take it on, so long as they put in the time and do the work to become competent in providing those services,” Edwards said.

Linda Gilkerson, who voted against Gilbert’s contract, expressed concerns that the high costs would exceed the district’s budget for legal counsel, which she said was about $160,000 annually.

Washoe County's Community Homelessness Advisory Board (CHAB) on Monday unanimously approved amendments to its bylaws allowing it to meet as desired rather than quarterly.

Los defensores de la comunidad expresan preocupaciones sobre un nuevo proyecto de ley en el condado de Clark que busca regular a los vendedores ambulantes. 

The bill established certain regulations, although local governments have yet to establish their licensing process, fees and requirements and hours of operation.

Commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick (D-Las Vegas) pressed grand prix officials during a commission meeting Tuesday to explain how resort and casino employees would be able to access the back ends of major Strip properties. 

Nevada’s local governments reported spending nearly $4.7 million to lobby legislators during this year’s session, breaking the record for annual lobbying spending by more than $700,000

The Pahrump Community Library's board of trustees is considering a policy that would require that children’s books dealing with race, gender and sexuality be reshelved in the adult section.

In Nevada, SNPLMA has invested billions of dollars in the state and powered growth throughout the region, while critics have charged that it has enabled suburbanization and sprawl, straining already-precarious water resources.