Retired wildland firefighter Jerry Barton and nurse Becky Wrenn drove from Kalispell, Mont., to Las Vegas after reading about the Carpenter 1 Fire on Mount Charleston. They set up shop across the street from the firefighters’ command center at Centennial High School, and within four hours, they were open for business.
They’ve turned a dormant high school into an active war room, deploying firefighting units and planning their next attack on the enemy.
For all practical purposes, Nevada doesn’t have capital punishment. In the 36 years since Nevada reinstated the death penalty for its worst killers, just 12 inmates have been executed, none since 2006. Nevada’s only execution chamber was shut down when the state closed the Nevada State Prison. The Legislature won’t fund a new chamber, even though 83 men are on death row.
A man is in serious condition after he was thrown from a car that overturned Tuesday night near Fort Apache and Warm Springs roads, according to Las Vegas police.
A pedestrian who was hit by a car early Wednesday morning is in serious condition.
Three men were indicted in the April 29 slaying and robbery of Richard Blevins, prosecutors said Wednesday, over an apparent $50 debt.
On the third anniversary of the shooting of Erik Scott by Las Vegas police officers at a northwest valley Costco, family members are in town to attend a vigil in his memory.
The House on Wednesday turned away a request to speed the installation of a new $14 million security system around a key complex at the Nevada National Security Site.
A former U.S. Army Reserve captain pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting $91,500 in bribes from contractors while he was deployed to Iraq, the Justice Department said.
Michael Mizrachi is poker’s grand old Duke of York. When he’s up, he’s up. And when he’s down, he’s down. Mizrachi endured one of those trademark swings during Day 2C of the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ’em World Championship at the Rio Convention Center, dropping almost half of his stack early Wednesday afternoon before going on a spectacular hot streak that, at least temporarily, gave him the overall lead with 553,000 chips.
“Sniper,” says Adam Roberts, a “bride to be” street performer, as he covers his face with a fan so a passer-by cannot take his photo without tipping during a recent evening on Fremont Street.
British cyclist Mark Cavendish came away with a yellow jersey Wednesday at the Tour de France. But it wasn’t the yellow jersey he was hoping for.
For those headed to Cox Pavilion on Friday for the first day of the NBA Summer League, it will be business as usual.
Shortly after hyperactive Albert Hall arrived at the Thomas & Mack Center and began checking poster placements, vendor spots and the new wood basketball floor, he gave arena director Mike Newcomb a bear hug.
Temperatures are expected to drop significantly Thursday as a storm system rolls over the Las Vegas valley and Spring Mountains.
Without rendering an opinion one way or the other, the Nevada attorney general’s office has closed its investigation into allegations the Clark County School Board violated the open meeting law on May 21.
A growing number of companies, including Las Vegas’ own MGM Resorts International, are beginning to discount and subsidize pet insurance as a perk to workers.
It may not have been the hot-stone massage for the temporal lobe that Aaron Sorkin-ites wanted. But to be hate-watched?
State gaming regulators on Wednesday gave initial approval to a plan by Caesars Entertainment Corp. to spin Planet Hollywood Resort, its interactive gaming business and a planned Baltimore casino into a separate company majority owned by the gambling giant.
Peter Chu has spent a lot of time traveling — dancing, teaching, creating choreography — in the years since he was a cast member of Celine Dion’s “A New Day.”
For those of you who moved to Las Vegas after 2006, when the Stardust closed to make way for an eyesore of ugly steel, you’re in luck.
The Las Vegas Wranglers announced Wednesday that center Chris Francis would return to the team for his fourth season.
■ LAKE MEAD — Anglers have reported striper boils early in the morning and just before dark. Boil locations include Vegas Wash, 33 Hole, Crawdad Cove and the Boulder Beach area along the buoy line. Top-water lures such as the Zara Spook and pencil poppers can be effective bait choices. Keep an eye out for other boaters, and use care not to overrun the boil, because it will shut down. Catfish action has been good for anglers using anchovies or stink baits. A little chumming can help bring them in.
In the documentary “TRANS,” director Chris Arnold set out to tell the world the truth about transsexuals.
Nevada voters will be able to continue to exercise their right to vote for “none of these candidates” in statewide elections after a federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a challenge to the unique ballot option.
With the addition of two new patients, the Las Vegas Valley has four of the nation’s 14 reported cases of West Nile virus, health officials say.
Flooding in western China, the worst in 50 years for some areas, triggered a landslide Wednesday that buried about 30 people, trapped hundreds in a highway tunnel and destroyed a high-profile memorial to a devastating 2008 earthquake.
