Three people are dead and four are in critical condition after a two-vehicle collision early Sunday morning on Interstate 15 near the Las Vegas Speedway.
A high school baseball player and a man with a history of petty crime were arrested Saturday in connection with the death of a 15-year-old boy who was run over by their SUV when he refused to give up his iPad, police said Sunday.
In the depths of the Great Recession, downtown Las Vegas defied economic gravity with a building boom that included bars, restaurants, a new City Hall and the Mob Museum.
Over 2,000 uninsured patients receive free medical care at the Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada’s clinic at Paradise Park, inside the old recreation center. The nonprofit is now getting ready to establish a second free clinic for those who don’t have access to health care services.
A man died when a tanker-trailer exploded and blew a gaping hole in the roof of a privately owned truck depot building adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base late Friday morning.
Most local libraries will be staying open an hour later, the governing board decided Thursday night. Hours at the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District’s 14 urban branches were cut three years ago amid plunging tax revenues. Nearly 100 jobs were eliminated then, too.
After a delay prompted by questions and confusion, Southern Nevada Water Authority board members signed off Thursday on a water charge increase that is not expected to raise rates on customers.
The creditors of controversial developer Chris Milam who had unsuccessfully pitched an arena in Henderson have sued the Bureau of Land Management in hopes of closing on the 480 acres of federal land once earmarked for the professional sports complex.
Nevada lawmakers in Congress are again pushing for a new national monument to protect thousands of ice age fossils hidden in the hills at the northern edge of Las Vegas.
The Clark County Department of Air Quality has issued a dust and smoke advisory through Friday afternoon due to a wildfire burning in the Los Padres National Forest in Southern California.
It’s been 16 months since Joseph Pinkney lost his teenage daughter to a stray bullet at a rowdy house party. Although more than 80 people were at the party and many witnessed the shooting of Betty “Jay” Pinkney, Las Vegas police didn’t have enough evidence to arrest the man suspected of firing the fatal shot -- until now.
Both of the teachers up for a Ward 1 North Las Vegas City Council seat — Jared Hardy and Isaac Barron — are election rookies. Early voting starts Wednesday.
The story told Monday by Patty Aspinwall mirrored fellow victims’ recollections about what happened to their bodies after they visited Dr. Dipak Desai’s Las Vegas endoscopy clinics.