First team
Mason Abittan, Coronado — The UNLV commit and first-team All-5A senior guard averaged 19.3 points for the Southern League regular-season champion.
EJ Dacuma, Sierra Vista — The 4A Desert League MVP, a senior guard, averaged 17.1 points per game for the 4A state champion.
Tremmell Darden Jr., Arbor View — The senior guard was a first-team All-5A selection and helped the Aggies finish fifth in the 5A Southern League.
Jayonni Durrough, Centennial — The senior guard was a first-team All-5A selection and helped the Bulldogs qualify for the state playoffs.
Tayshaun Jackson, Las Vegas High — The 5A offensive player of the year, a senior guard, averaged 22.7 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists.
Nick Jefferson, Bishop Gorman — The senior guard was a first-team All-5A selection and helped the Gaels win the 5A state title. He was named the MaxPreps Nevada player of the year.
Colton Knoll, Sierra Vista — The senior guard averaged 13.4 points and 9.6 rebounds for the 4A state champion.
Jaden Riley, Liberty — The senior guard was a first-team All-5A selection and averaged 15.1 points and 5.0 rebounds.
CJ Shaw, Mojave — The 5A player of the year and senior guard averaged 21.6 points, 5.2 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 3.8 steals for the 5A state runner-up. He is committed to UC Santa Barbara.
Lantz Stephenson, Coronado — The first-team All-5A senior guard averaged 12.7 points for the Southern League regular-season champion.
Jett Washington, Bishop Gorman — The junior guard helped with scoring, defense and rebounding as the Gaels won the 5A state title. He is the state’s top 2026 football recruit, with notable offers from Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Oregon.
Jevon Yapi, Sierra Vista — The senior guard averaged 17.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 2.8 steals for the 4A state champion.
Coach of the year
Joe Bedowitz, Sierra Vista — Guided the Mountain Lions to their second straight 4A state title. They finished with a 26-5 record and also won the 4A Desert League and Southern Region titles.
Second team
Chris Baudreau, Bishop Gorman — The senior forward was a second-team All-5A selection and helped the Gaels win the state title.
Lonnie Bass Jr., Mater East — The senior forward averaged 18.3 points and 14.2 rebounds to help the Knights win the 3A Southern Region and state titles.
Kayden Goss, Silverado — The junior guard was a second-team All-5A selection and averaged 14.5 points to help the No. 8-seeded Skyhawks reach the state semifinals.
Zacarrion Jackson, Mojave — The second-team All-5A senior guard averaged 13.1 points and 9.9 rebounds for the 5A state runner-up.
Ty Johnson, Bishop Gorman — The sophomore guard was named the 5A defensive player of the year by the coaches and helped the Gaels win the state title.
Jakoi Lide, Rancho — The 4A Lake League player of the year, a senior guard, averaged a state-best 33.2 points per game for the 4A state semifinalist.
Aaron McMorran, Desert Pines — The freshman guard was a second-team All-5A selection and averaged 20.2 points per game for the state semifinalist.
Ilan Nikolov, Bishop Gorman — The sophomore guard was a second-team All-5A selection and helped the Gaels win the state title.
Jalen St. Clair, Coronado — The second-team All-5A senior guard averaged 9.7 points and 4.6 rebounds for the Southern League regular-season champion.
Dante Steward, Liberty — The second-team All-5A junior guard averaged 16.6 points and 6.0 rebounds per game.
Josiah Stroughter, Democracy Prep — The junior guard was a first-team All-3A Southern Region selection and averaged 14.9 points for the state semifinalist.
Miles Williams, Mater East — The senior guard and 3A Southern Region player of the year averaged 11.2 points and 10.7 assists to help the Knights win the 3A Southern Region and state titles.
Honorable mention
Jaeden Alexander, Del Sol
JJ Buchanan, Coronado
Kingston Carmona, Bishop Gorman
Jailen Childress, Rancho
Devan Christion, Clark
Curtis Coleman, Mojave
Elijah Coleman, Clark
Jonny Collins, Coronado
Kameron Cooper, Bishop Gorman
Prince Davis, Desert Pines
Aaron Duke, Legacy
Qualib Ghallab, Chaparral
Dashaun Harris, Democracy Prep
Zyon Harris, Centennial
TraVaughn Jensen Brigance, Silverado
Roderick Johnson, Losee
Tyler Merto, Desert Pines
Uzo Nwapa, The Meadows
Dion Parker, Democracy Prep
Gerald Patterson, Cimarron-Memorial
Emmanuel Peter, Durango
Sean Pendleton, Boulder City
Deven Taylor, Mater East
Isaiah Trotter, Mojave
Deymien Tunis, Green Valley
Bryson Walker, Moapa Valley
Kevan Wilkins, Spring Valley
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A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.
Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.
What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.
The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.
So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.
I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.
Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.
Paul Selberg writes from Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas High’s baseball team claimed a 3-2 home win over Coronado on Friday.
Las Vegas (9-13-1) next hosts Rancho at 10 a.m. Saturday. Coronado (13-14) hosts Chaparral at 3:30 p.m. Monday.
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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada’s jobless rate is holding steady, but the state is still adding jobs.
A new report from DETR shows February’s unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent, with the labor force growing by nearly 3,800 people.
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Nevada now has about 1.6 million nonfarm jobs, up 2.2 percent over the past year and 1,500 more jobs than in January.
“This month’s report shows a strengthening labor market,” said David Schmidt, Chief Economist. ”Compared to the report for January, the pace of job gains in the past year increased from 1.9% to 2.2%, building on what was already the fastest pace of job growth in the country. While the unemployment rate remained stable, the labor force participation rate rose to 63.7%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national level.”
In Las Vegas, employment ticked up by 1,100 jobs in February, about 0.1 percent, and is up more than 25,000 jobs compared to last year.
Reno added 1,000 jobs on the month, while Carson City shed about 200 but is still slightly above where it was a year ago.
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