As local school districts finalize their plans to reopen this fall, distance learning seems to be the way to go. But Nevada Rise Academy is going the extra mile by adding child care assistance for working parents. (Renee Summeerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The CCSD Board of Trustees voted unanimously on July 21 to approve a full-time return to distance learning. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske said the state plans to return to a traditional, in-person election format for the Nov. 3 general election. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on CNN on Wednesday, April 22, talking about reopening Las Vegas after the coronavirus shutdown. (James Schaeffer / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Gov. Steve Sisolak announces the COVID-19 Response, Relief and Recovery Task Force for businesses in Nevada along with answers about testing kits and what their plan is to keep contracting the virus low. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Richard Roman takes the Las Vegas Review-Journal through a tour of his abandoned mine in Boulder City, which he calls home. Roman has lived in the mine for seven years.
Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal crash Sunday morning in northwest Las Vegas. About 9:45 a.m., two vehicles collided and struck several pedestrians at the intersection of West Cheyenne Avenue and North Soft Breezes Drive, west of Buffalo Drive. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Mark Hinueber, the Review-Journal’s former lawyer and defender of the First Amendment, died in Las Vegas on Aug. 23. Hinueber, who was 66, worked at the RJ and other newspapers for 42 years. On Saturday, his friends and family gathered for a memorial service.
Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis during an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal at the Four Seasons hotel in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 22, 2018. Video by Richard Brian @vegasphotograph
An event to address permanent home needs for growing foster children population in Nevada. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Early voting in the Ward 5 Las Vegas City Council race at Las Vegas City Hall. There are eleven candidates running in the Ward 5 special election to serve out the remaining 15 months left on former councilman Ricki Barlow’s term. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas-Review Journal
Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Barlow will plead guilty to felony fraud charges for using campaign funds for his personal use in 2015, and resigned his seat representing the city’s Ward 5 on Monday.
Barlow is “deeply ashamed” of his conduct, he said at a Monday afternoon news conference at City Hall.
Marcus Maddox, 30, is accused of fatally stabbing his 12-year-old daughter and leaving his 15-year-old son for dead. Authorities say he then drove across the valley and attempted to kill his wife and himself. An officer climbed through a window and found Tishia Maddox face down on a bed at Siegel Suites on East Craig Road. She had a severe wound to her forehead. When police arrived, they found Marcus Maddox with a gunshot wound to his head. Officials found the couple’s children in a Budget Suites room more than 17 hours later. Marcus and Tishia Maddox and their son remain in critical condition at University Medical Center.
Wednesday’s headlines: Las Vegas police open internal probe after children left for dead for hours,
Extending monorail from MGM Grand to Mandalay Bay gets county OK, Las Vegas man fatally stabbed trying to stop girlfriend’s suicide
Off-duty pilots from Spirit Airlines picketed outside McCarran International Airport as a measure to urge management to resume labor contract negotiations. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Rolling Stones’ first ever major exhibition, Exhibitionism, will be featured at the Palazzo hotel-casino starting September 23, 2017, through January 31, 2018. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Road-rage incident leaves one man dead, sex, cover-up at Las Vegas fire station alleged in document, indictment dismissed against Las Vegas attorney
Over 70 senior citizens attended a Hawaiian luau at the Doolittle Senior Center in Las Vegas. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)