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The Henderson City Council approved a construction contract Tuesday night to build concrete channeling for a stretch of the Pittman Wash at Arroyo Grande Boulevard, ending years of dispute with supporters who want to preserve the area’s natural state.
A man jumped to his death from the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge bridge Tuesday afternoon, officials say.
Reports of a house fire Tuesday afternoon led authorities to a burned body in the backyard of a home near Washington Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard.
Following a barrage of advertising, the Clark County Shooting Complex, which lost money in fiscal 2013, made small profits in three out of the last nine months.
A mother has blamed authorities for failing to do enough to track two sex offenders who are charged in the death of her daughter. The two men wore GPS devices, but investigators say they didn’t piece together a pattern of rapes and killings until at least four women were dead.
Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins faced criticism and more after apologizing to fellow commissioners Tuesday over some of his comments made during the Clive Bundy standoff.
A group of about 700 volunteers helped assemble a playground at the Clark County Department of Family Services’ Child Haven campus on Tuesday.
The woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Clinton during a speaking engagement in Las Vegas last week has been arrested in Phoenix on federal charges.
The Republican National Committee will make a technical site visit to Las Vegas on Thursday to help determine whether the city will win the right to host the 2016 convention where the GOP will nominate its presidential candidate.
Las Vegas police are trying to figure out how a body ended up in the desert in the southwest valley.
A Henderson woman testified Tuesday that she never would have taken the diabetes drug Actos if she had known it could cause bladder cancer.
Mexican musical icon Juan Gabriel has been hospitalized in Las Vegas with pneumonia, postponing three California shows this week that were part of the top-selling artist’s “Volver” tour.
Las Vegas police investigating a shooting in the northeast valley on Thursday afternoon were unable to find those involved, according to police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer. Officers responded to the 3600 block of Cecile Avenue, near Cheyenne Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard, after receiving multiple calls of a shooting at 2:45 p.m. They found possible bullet impacts near an area apartment complex but not the injured person whom callers said fled.
Former Southern Nevada Water Authority boss Pat Mulroy will become a fellow at Brookings Mountain West and a faculty associate of Desert Research Institute, the organizations announced Tuesday.
The work is hard and the pay is nonexistent, but volunteers at Safe Nest and the Rape Crisis Center say they’ve never had a more rewarding job.
Quick quiz: What’s one of the safest beverages you can drink in Southern Nevada? If your answer is “tap water,” you’re right! Southern Nevada’s municipal water supply meets or surpasses all State of Nevada and Federal Safe Drinking Water Act standards. In fact, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) tests your water 300,000 times a […]
The forecast high for central Las Vegas is 108 on Tuesday and 109 on Wednesday, both just below record highs for the dates.
The Percent For The Arts Fund — which receives 1 percent of the city’s capital budget — budgeted $74,500 for the project.
The study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that Nevada ranks low in a number of child well-being indicators.
Former President Donald Trump discussed campaign strategies and policies for potential second terms in an exclusive interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
