Today's News

West Las Vegas is facing a number of strains on its budget, but a top official doesn’t expect any layoffs in the coming year.

Jim Abreu, the school district’s superintendent, said West Las Vegas will do what it takes to avoid layoffs, which he called a “last resort.” He noted that last year, the district cut the days of employment contracts to save money as a way of preventing layoffs.

Elections forums are planned next week for District 70 state representative and County Commission Districts 2 and 5.

The District 70 forum is set for Tuesday and the commissioners forum for Wednesday. Both are at 6:30 p.m. in Memorial Middle School’s auditorium.

Democrats running for state representative are incumbent Richard Vigil, Naomi Montoya and Travis Regensberg. On the Republican side is Mel Root.

The second-in-command at the Las Vegas City Schools announced Wednesday that her last day at work would be today.

Associate Superintendent Barbara Perea Casey’s departure will come three days after the school board passed over her for the superintendent’s job.

A 3-2 school board majority picked Questa schools Superintendent Richard Romero over Casey and three other finalists.

Every weekend, Angel Benidez can usually be found entertaining shoppers next to the entrance of Walgreens at Seventh Street and Mills Avenue.

You can’t miss him. He is wearing a brightly colored outfit quilted in red, white and blue squares, a white cowboy hat, twirling two canes and dancing to disco music. A plastic container for collecting donations sits next to his boom box cranking out one of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits.