Meetings, conventions and exhibitions bring 6.6 million people to Las Vegas each year. They generate $10.5 billion dollars in economic activity and more than 65,000 jobs.
Homeless activists swarmed the Las Vegas City Council chambers chanting, "Housing, not handcuffs!" The mayor said the measure is necessary in order to address a homeless problem that is not abating.
Survivors of the 2017 mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas are still experiencing lasting effects. "All these people that think that you can just move on — you don't," one survivor says.
The Clark County Elections Department says Southern Nevada saw a lower-than-5% turnout for early voting before Tuesday’s municipal primary elections. Of the 560-thousand eligible voters in Southern Nevada, fewer than 24-thousand participated in the two weeks of early voting.
"Throughout his life, [Stephen] Paddock went to great lengths to keep his thoughts private, and that extended to his final thinking about this mass murder," officials said on Tuesday.
