Just one day after a fire in a service elevator prompted a brief 400-room evacuation at the Rio, guests in another 900 of the resort’s rooms were evacuated Thursday morning after an electrical short caused a major, day-long power outage at the resort.
The crash happened just after 2:15 p.m. Wednesday. A red Dodge Ram pickup pulling a trailer was heading north on the two-lane highway when it crossed into the southbound lane for unknown reasons and slammed into an oncoming green Mitsubishi Montero.
Don’t expect construction on an extension of the Las Vegas Monorail from MGM Grand to Mandalay Bay to start any time soon.
Chris Beecroft Jr., the longtime commissioner of Alternative Dispute Resolution for Clark County District Court, died this week. He was 67.
Former Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore intends to run for Las Vegas City Council in 2017, she confirmed to the Review-Journal on Thursday.
A former Las Vegas company mounted a novel defense in dispute over $1.1 million contract with NHL’s Minnesota Wild.
Some Republicans in Congress say they will fight to overturn the designation of Nevada’s Gold Butte and Bears Ears in Utah for federal protection, but President-elect Trump doesn’t have the power to turn back the clock, experts say.
The special meeting, to fill the vacancy created by Councilman Sam Bateman’s election as a Henderson Justice Court judge, will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Henderson council chambers, 240 Water St.
Trump administration will have final say on the plans, which range from banning new mining activity on about 10 million acres for up to 20 years to imposing no additional restrictions on mine locations.
No one was injured in an electrical fire that broke out Wednesday in a Rio service elevator, but guests in about 400 rooms had to be relocated within the hotel and to other Caesars Entertainment-owned properties because of a related power outage.
A Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman says the blaze is about 30 percent contained as of late Tuesday morning.
In each of the past three years, more than 100 fatalities have occurred on Nevada roads during the three full months in the span between the two holiday weekends.
Early voters on Saturday touted the convenience of not having to wait in line Election Day.
Early voting begins Saturday for the June 11 primary. Here’s what you need to know.
