More than three dozens officers were honored Wednesday during the Metropolitan Police Department’s Commendation Ceremony. Five officers received the agency’s “highest honor,” the Medal of Valor.
With blasts from strategically placed explosives, a Cold War relic came crashing down Wednesday at the Nevada National Security Site. The 1,527-foot steel tower for the Bare Reactor Experiment-Nevada had stood as the highest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River, and tallest structure of its kind in the world.
Las Vegas police officers should be required to file a report every time they point a gun at someone, the American Civil Liberties Union has concluded. The report, the second by the organization looking into Las Vegas police procedures, culled policies and best practices from a variety of police departments, the U.S. Department of Justice and other groups.
Tribal leaders from Nevada, Utah and California blasted the federal government Wednesday for failing to protect them and their cultural heritage from a plan to pipe groundwater to Las Vegas from across the eastern part of the state.
New legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada aims to streamline short sales of mortgage-troubled homes.
A wildfire that destroyed two homes in a rural neighborhood near the California-Nevada line and was threatening many more Wednesday might have been caused by an illegal burn that had been smoldering at a private residence since the weekend, investigators said.
Gregory Jaczko, who said this week he is resigning as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is not packing his bags just yet.
A 19-year-old man turned himself in to police on Tuesday after he admitted accidentally shooting a friend and dumping her body in the desert.
Las Vegas’ new-home market continues to improve with 347 sales in April, a 34.5 percent increase from the same month a year ago, Home Builders Research reported Wednesday. For the year to date, new-home closings have increased 20 percent to 1,220.
Retired Las Vegas police Capt. Frank Sutton has struck a deal to plead guilty in the high-profile federal investigation of Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
Garrett Vandereecken, a Las Vegas police officer charged with sexually abusing an underage girl, said he was “the one chasing the bad guys and now is the bad guy” during a tense confrontation with the victim’s father last year, according to a police report. The girl told police the abuse began in 2008 on a Memorial Day camping trip when she was 11 years old. She is now 15.
If North Las Vegas officials don’t do something drastic, the city will be left without enough cops and firefighters to keep its residents safe, according to a resolution proposed Wednesday by City Manager Tim Hacker. The City Council is scheduled to vote June 1 on his proposal to suspend the portions of union contracts dealing with pay raises, uniform allowances and vacation buyback programs.
Two veteran defense attorneys were appointed Wednesday to represent Bryan Clay, a 22-year-old man accused of the brutal slayings of a mother and daughter along with the sexual assault of another woman.
A wildfire burning in Northern Nevada caused smoky conditions in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
