Enough visitors are expected to pour into Las Vegas for New Year’s celebrations to temporarily move the city and surrounding communities up five spots on U.S. metropolitan population rankings.
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The event, billed as the largest Veterans Day parade west of the Mississippi, lasted about two hours and featured more than 100 parade groups, including Mayor Carolyn Goodman and her husband, former Mayor Oscar Goodman. Sunday’s event was the 23rd put on by the nonprofit Veterans Action Group.
Henderson and Las Vegas have claimed top-10 spots as local governments that use technology to improve the lives of residents.
The woman who died after being struck by a pickup truck on Oct. 22 was not the mother of a 4-year-old boy killed in the same crash, according to police and an attorney representing the woman’s family.
Several Las Vegas Review-Journal journalists were selected from a pool of more than 300 entries as finalists for the annual EPPY Awards.
Clark County fire officials were called just before 2:30 p.m. to the fire on the 3100 block of Highland Drive, near Desert Inn Road and Interstate 15, dispatch logs show.
The Metropolitan Police Department will pay $500,000 to the mother of a man who died in police custody in a case that spurred changes in the department’s Taser policy.
A teacher’s aide told police that Melody Carter, 58, hit the 5-year-old boy repeatedly after he would not put his shoes back on, and said, “I have more of those” when the stick broke, according to her arrest report.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man killed Monday night after his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck in the east valley.
Former Metropolitan Police Department homicide Capt. Robert Plummer will take over as chief of the Napa Police Department in July, according to a release by Napa officials. He retired from Metro last week.
Las Vegas police officer Cordell Hendrex, another officer and security guards were among the first to respond to the upper floors of Mandalay Bay while a gunman opened fire on a country music festival below.
About 40 people gathered on the Strip on Sunday to mourn the death of Tashii Brown, who was choked by a Las Vegas police officer a year ago Monday.
A Las Vegas attorney who commonly defends drunken driving suspects was arrested recently on suspicion of driving under the influence, records show.
A power outage near UNLV on Tuesday evening left hundreds of people without power, according to NV Energy.
The small airplane that crashed on a suburban Phoenix golf course this month banked on its left side before it dived into the ground and burs into flames, according to a preliminary report released by federal investigators.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. In the city, you get The Strip (along with the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
“It’s just heartbreaking,” said Judy Roman, whose houseboat was totaled and whose security camera recorded the fire.
Dennis and Ashley Prince had a young baby together before they were killed in early April, and the child is now the center of another guardianship dispute.
Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson face murder and child abuse charges. They were arrested after their son’s body was found in a dumpster near downtown Las Vegas.
A rodeo bull hopped a fence surrounding an Oregon arena and ran through a concession area into a parking lot, officials said.