🧑‍🎨 Should First Friday charge admission?

🗞️ Review-Journal Drops Sun in Newspaper Battle

For the first time since 1950, there is no longer a print edition of the Las Vegas Sun. The newspaper has been available as an insert in the Las Vegas Review-Journal for the past seven years in response to an antitrust lawsuit. The Review-Journal says it shouldn’t have to shoulder the cost of printing its competitor. The Sun says its rival is failing to follow a 50-year agreement and is promising further legal action. [Las Vegas Review-Journal/Las Vegas Sun]

🎨 Should First Friday Charge Admission?

The new Southern Nevada Art Museum was vandalized by graffiti during the March edition of First Friday and in response, put up fencing during the latest one over the weekend. The museum’s founder is now calling for changes to the monthly Arts District festival, saying security is ineffective, public bathrooms are scarce, and an admission charge would help draw a better behaved crowd that appreciates art. Organizers are committed to keeping the event free and other businesses say the foot traffic is a welcome sales boost.

• There’s been a fierce debate over noise levels in the Arts District too. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

⛽ Gas Bandits Strike as Prices Rise

Drivers across the country are panicking over the average gas price hitting $4. We wish that was the case here in Nevada, now that local prices are topping five bucks. [KLAS]

• It’s so bad, thieves are trying to steal gas by siphoning it from other cars. [KSNV]

🍸 Nevada Remains Free of ‘Dram Shop’ Laws

Nevada continues to balance a pattern of dangerous driving with an economy fueled in part by free-flowing alcohol. So who’s to blame when a DUI incident turns deadly? City Cast Las Vegas examines the absence of “dram laws” in Nevada — and if a bartender should be legally liable when serving alcohol to an intoxicated patron. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

⚖️ Nevada Judge Halts Immigrant Detentions

A federal judge ruled that President Trump’s practice of “mandatory detention” for undocumented immigrants violates the law, marking the first time a Department of Homeland Security policy was overturned by a class-action lawsuit in Nevada. Hundreds could now qualify for release in the state. [Nevada Independent]

• The ACLU of Nevada, the organization that filed the suit, is also taking legal action against the Nevada DMV, which is accused of stonewalling requests for communications records with immigration enforcement officials. [Nevada Current]
• The wife of a U.S. Marine Corps veteran was deported back to Eastern Europe after waiting more than five years for an appointment to secure a green card. [KLAS]
• International migration is down across the country (with you-know-who taking credit for it), but the drop is especially sharp in Nevada, which relies heavily on immigrants for labor and tax revenue. [Nevada Independent]

This egg-cellent piece of art makes an impression on the Las Vegas Strip.

Where is it?

A. Bellagio

B. Cosmopolitan

C. Fontainebleau

D. The Shoppes at Mandalay Place

Click here to play along and find out where the photo was taken.