Victoria Seaman, who is in the middle of a four-year term on the Las Vegas City Council, is seeking to win election as Las Vegas mayor. She faces Shelley Berkley a 14-year member of Congress, in the November general election.

Here’s a look at how Tuesday’s primaries turned out for Southern Nevada local government candidates, including in Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City. 

Down-ballot races heat up as aspiring officials compete for county commission, school board and city council seats across Nevada.

Although their candidacy does not become official until the filing period that begins March 4, candidates for local government offices have already begun fundraising.

Though official candidate filings do not occur until March, candidates for local government offices have already begun fundraising. A look at what funds Northern Nevada candidates have going into the election.

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.

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.

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.

Lawmakers introduced and passed several bills tackling the needs of Nevadans experiencing homelessness or housing instability in the recent legislative session. But was it enough?

The new sheriff, who is taking over the state’s largest police agency after former Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo defeated incumbent Democrat Steve Sisolak and became governor, said he plans to avoid using the same failed strategies “over and over again.” 

As two members move to pursue higher office, Las Vegas voters will decide in November which new faces they want to fill those pivotal city council positions and make decisions about development, public safety and the future of Nevada’s largest city.

All three Clark County sheriff candidates — Stan Hyt, Kevin McMahill and Tom Roberts — spent most of their law enforcement careers serving on the Las Vegas police force.

Two candidates won their seats on the state’s education board outright in June, but narrow primary battles mean four others are still fighting for two spots, including one incumbent who is concerned that parent frustrations about distance learning may hurt his chances of retaining a seat he has held since 2013.

Over the past week, Goodman has emerged as part of the national discussion on COVID-19, downplaying the severity of the pandemic in cable news interviews and urging policymakers to ease business shutdowns that public health officials say are necessary to slow the spread of the disease.

All publicity is good publicity, they said. Just spell the name right, they said.

We all want to reopen Nevada and get back to the way things have historically been. But times have changed. This disease and the spread of it has changed all of us, and we need to continue adapting and remaining cautious.

Goodman’s comments came despite repeated warnings from federal, state and county health officials that opening businesses too quickly or removing social distancing measures all at once could lead to a far greater number of deaths from coronavirus and place burdens on the medical system.

On Saturday, officials touted their work converting the Cashman Complex parking lot into a sleeping area complete with carpeting. But by Monday, a photo of people curled up under blankets in painted rectangles on the asphalt was drawing criticism from around the globe, with many asking why Southern Nevada’s largely empty megaresorts were not being offered up as a solution.

I’m glad Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is feeling better after her breast cancer battle.

The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday is expected to vote on an ordinance to allow city officials to “designate hours of sidewalk cleaning” in areas that are not already covered by an approved ordinance that makes it illegal to sit or lie down in many parts of town. Deputy City Attorney Jeff Dorocak says that the ordinance is intended to give allow the city to clean areas where encampments would be "still available," such as sidewalks or parking lots in commercial or industrial areas.