Motorists in the northwest Las Vegas Valley can now travel a little faster along a portion of the 215 Beltway.
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It was the rare public-policy debate where one of the adversaries was flanked by showgirls.
Clark County will increase the speed limit from 45 mph to 65 mph on the beltway between Craig Road and Hualapai Way starting Friday afternoon.
North Las Vegas constable candidate Jimmy Vega did not live in the city when he filed for office, according to a complaint filed with state and local election officials.
The city’s rating slid six notches between June 2012 and January 2014, Moody’s spokesman David Jacobson said. The recent upgrade gets the city within one grade of its June 2012 rating of A3.
Less than a month after Nye County officials closed Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch brothel, a federal judge on Monday gave the brothel boss and Republican Assembly candidate his license back — for now.
At Adam Laxalt’s fourth annual Basque Fry, Republican speakers had a clear message for the conservative crowd gathered Saturday in Northern Nevada: If Democrats win this fall, they’ll turn the Silver State into California.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited the Nevada National Security Site and met with employees during a two-day stopover this week that was not announced in advance.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen toured the Miley Achievement Center in Las Vegas on Thursday before sitting down to discuss school security in two roundtable sessions.
Some of the nation’s top wildlife artists will descend on the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas for the 2018 Federal Duck Stamp Contest, the only juried art show sponsored by the U.S. government.
Estimates indicate Southern Nevada annually collects tens of millions of dollars in room tax from state residents.
A new report by the Clark County teachers union advocates that state lawmakers allow local school districts to raise extra money on their own to support education.
An ambitious and long-delayed plan to expand Southern Nevada’s only ski resort is now out for public review.
For the second time in six months, a suicidal patient died less than 24 hours after the North Las Vegas hospital released them to a group home without supervision or contacting the patient’s family.
When a June episode of reality TV show “The Bachelorette” featured a group date at Casa de Shenandoah, neighbors wanted answers.
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Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
A weak trough passing north of Las Vegas will bring some gusty winds as the only blemish on a Memorial Day weekend forecast, says the National Weather Service.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
Safety while boating at Lake Mead National Recreation Area has long been an issue, leading to several deaths almost every year since 2000.
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