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Nearly half of the 18 medical marijuana dispensary applications that Clark County commissioners approved have an uncertain fate, as they failed to win state support. The development has brought about frustration and unanswered questions among county officials and applicants who are now in limbo.
President Barack Obama is expected to visit Las Vegas on Friday, stopping here after Republicans swept all top state offices and took control of the Legislature in the Nov. 4 election. No details were available about the president’s visit.
An 18-year-old man is dead after a shooting Tuesday night in North Las Vegas, according to police. Police responded about 6:45 p.m. to a shooting in the area of East Tropical Parkway and North Lawrence Street, west of Losee Road.
Four people were wounded in a Tuesday evening shooting in North Las Vegas, police said.
Robert Gibbs wasn’t looking to have a day named in his honor, but Clark County commissioners decided he deserved it.
A San Francisco kid with a knack for collegiate fundraising was tapped to lead the University of Nevada, Las Vegas by the state higher education Board of Regents Tuesday.
The left three lanes of Northbound Interstate 15 are closed at Tropicana Avenue after a bulldozer atop a flatbed truck struck the an overpass and sent debris into the freeway, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
The funded ratio of Nevada’s public employee retirement plan improved in fiscal year 2014 over 2013 and now stands at 71.5 percent fully funded, an analysis from an independent actuary shows.
Whether they beat him with a belt buckle, broom stick or spatula, or whipped him with an electric cord, 7-year-old Roderick “RJ” Arrington didn’t cry.
Seven former foster children alleging abuse and neglect in the child welfare system will receive a settlement in excess of $2 million from Clark County.
Officers originally responded to reports of a sick or injured person at 11:51 a.m. in the 1900 block of Dwarf Star Drive, near East Lake Mead and North Lamb boulevards.
The minivan driver who died on Monday night after crashing into a flat-bed semi truck in the south valley was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday.
The number of immigrants who are in Nevada illegally dropped by about 20,000 people from 2009 to 2012. But Nevada still has the largest share of any state of unauthorized immigrants in its total population, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
One person died in a single-vehicle rollover crash Tuesday morning on southbound Interstate 15 at the northern 215 Beltway, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
One of three men who died after a Monday morning crash on the 215 Beltway in the north valley was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday.
Las Vegas is largely defined by its ability to defy expectations, and recent forecasts predicting a decline in its appeal to younger travelers are no exception. Contrary to these gloomy predictions, which suggest that an aging core visitor base might render the city’s 150,000 hotel rooms less appealing to new generations, the reality is strikingly […]
Residents throughout the Las Vegas Valley were reacting to the news that Donald Trump had become the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
The Board of School Trustees decided on an Illinois-based search firm to recommend candidates for the office.
