LAS VEGAS (KSNV & MyNews3) -- When you've squeezed all you can out of a budget -- cuts come next and the clock is ticking louder and louder for North Las Vegas.
City leaders have 23 days before they must prove to the state department of taxation that North Las Vegas will not go bankrupt.
News 3's Mackenzie Warren spoke to city leaders who say theirs wouldn't be the first city in Nevada history to default.
They say failure is not an option but city leaders can't close the $33 million hole alone with North Las Vegas still teetering on the brink of a state takeover, city leaders are at the mercy of their unions.
