A pedestrian was in critical condition after being hit by a car Monday afternoon, Las Vegas police say. The collision happened just after 4 p.m. near Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway. The pedestrian was suffering critical injuries and was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, police reported.
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The North Las Vegas Fire Department battled a fire at a recycling yard that sent up plumes of smoke visible from throughout the valley on Monday.
The Las Vegas Centennial Commission, faced with more than 100 advocates in favor of saving the Huntridge Theater, voted unanimously Monday to approve a $1 million grant to buy the land underneath the historic theater.
Not only is billionaire Bill Gates sending Erika Carrera to the college of her choice, but President Barack Obama will bid her good luck in a White House ceremony this summer, placing the medallion of U.S. Presidential Scholar around her neck.
A pair of Clark County women deserve at least $60 million after developing bladder cancer from taking the diabetes drug Actos, one of their attorneys told a jury Monday. The lawyers for Delores Cipriano, 81, and Bertha Triana, 80, have said they plan to seek billions of dollars more in punitive damages from the Japan-based drug maker Takeda as the case wraps up this week.
The man charged in a fatal shooting at the Palms this past week said the gun fired accidentally, according to Las Vegas police.
The fire that broke out Saturday night above the foothills in southwest Reno had burned more than a square mile of timber, grass and mountain brush by Monday morning.
Clark County commissioners unanimously approved a $1.2 billion general fund budget on Monday for the upcoming fiscal year.
Students from the UNLV Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering showcased their commercially viable projects May 8 at the annual Spring Senior Design Competition.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a motorcyclist killed in Sunday’s accident in northeast Las Vegas.
A man died and a boy nearly drowned in separate weekend incidents — which included at least 15 rescues on Sunday — at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Mesquite, Las Vegas’ neighbor 80 miles to the northeast, has a new mayor. The City Council picked one of its own, Councilman Allan Litman, to finish the remaining two-and-a-half years of ex-Mayor Mark Wier’s term.
Experienced defense lawyers are mounting a campaign to move the upcoming federal trial of urologist Michael S. Kaplan out of Las Vegas. At issue is the mass of publicity in the civil and criminal cases of another physician, Dipak Desai.
The sting of fee increases to help balance the City of Las Vegas fiscal 2015 budget is upsetting people involved with youth and adult sports.
A city employee with a base salary of $71,000 who was paid for callback and overtime totaling $102,155 in 2011 and 2012 has sparked a reorganization of the Las Vegas Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Department.
Generosity is any act of kindness or support given with no expectation of exchange or return from the recipient(s).
Decades in the making, residents now have another option to cross the Colorado River between Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona.
The airport only dropped to 87 on Friday morning after Thursday’s 111 record high. Friday was up to 110 about 2:30 p.m.
A political action committee says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ineligible to appear on the November ballot unless he resubmits his petition to comply with Nevada law.
The shop, inspired by classic soda fountain shops, features Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Coke, Pepsi and other sodas mixed with flavors and add-ins.