An accident involving several vehicles has ensnared traffic on the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 95 near Valley View Boulevard tonight. The highway is closed at Jones Boulevard and is not expected to reopen for at least one to two hours, according to officials.
Chace Stanback scored 17 points to lead UNLV to an 85-41 victory over UC Riverside in the season opener for both teams at the Thomas & Mack Center tonight.
A 50-year-old woman was struck and killed on her bicycle Friday afternoon.
After Las Vegas officials approved higher salaries for the mayor and City Council, Councilmen Steve Ross and Steve Wolfson promised that, if re-elected, they would not accept the higher salary.
WASHINGTON — A new Republican majority in the House is poised to assert itself on nuclear waste matters in the upcoming Congress, with newly re-elected Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada set to guard again that the Yucca Mountain repository plan is not revived.
CARSON CITY — Nevada has special license plates honoring wild horses, Hoover Dam and 23 other causes.
Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa Valley, figures now is the time to honor the newest cause, the Tea Party.
A pedestrian was killed Friday morning after being struck by a vehicle on a highway off-ramp. The man, who was not identified, was struck by a Saturn in the Sahara Avenue exit off-ramp of Interstate 15 at about 2:15 a.m., according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday named a new publisher to replace longtime publisher Sherman Frederick. Bob Brown, advertising director of the newspaper since 2001, was named publisher of the newspaper effective immediately.
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