Experts say the trend reflects that homeless populations are getting older and sicker, drug use is soaring, and the pandemic has made it more difficult to access health care.
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Clark County District Judge-elect Crystal Eller was served with a grand jury subpoena last week and said she believes the incumbent she defeated is behind it.
A 90-year-old Army veteran living at the Southern Nevada State Veterans home died this week from COVID-19 complications after being discharged from a local hospital.
Three Vietnam War veterans from Las Vegas say the draft should be abolished. Their book, “Last Draftees,” was released last month.
A Las Vegas veteran honors Veterans Day this year by sharing his photos from the Gulf War and commemorating its 30th anniversary.
Judge William “Bill” Kephart, a longtime judge and incumbent in District Court Department 19 in Clark County, could lose his seat — but there are still thousands of election ballots left to be counted.
Preliminary election results in Clark County showed two incumbents in District Court trailing their opponents on Wednesday and another incumbent locked in a tight race.
A Democrat and a member if the Independent American Party are challenging Assemblyman Glen Leavitt’s bid for re-election in Nevada Assembly District 23.
Two first-time candidates — Democrat Venicia Considine and Republican Heather Ann Florian — are running for the open Assembly District 18 seat.
A Republican gunning for a seat in state Assembly District 15 says he will “do everything to repeal” a 2019 bill sponsored by the incumbent he’s running against.
Two women — a second-generation American and a newly naturalized citizen — are the candidates hoping to fill the vacant seat in Assembly District 16.
Libertarian Natasha Bousley is challenging three-term incumbent Assemblyman Edgar Flores in Nevada Assembly District 28.
District Court Judge Jacqueline Bluth, appointed last year by Gov. Steve Sisolak, is seeking election for the first time in Department 6.
Retired Army Green Beret Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz, portrayed in an episode of the miniseries “Waco,” now lives a relatively quiet life in Southern Nevada.
The parade, long billed as the “largest Veterans Day parade west of the Mississippi River,” has been canceled because it could not comply with state public gathering limits.
Nevada identified long-term care facilities as a cause for concern early in the COVID outbreak, but that initial burst of resolve to protect residents and staff has faltered.
The move will make it much easier for thousands of military retirees, dependents and widows to access the no-cost medication to which they are entitled.
The horrors of that fateful day “rested on his shoulder” for a lifetime, Nielsen told the Review-Journal in December. He died on Sunday, his daughter announced.
Nellis Air Force Base is hosting Red Flag exercises this week and next amid the pandemic — but this time with only U.S. aircraft involved.
“This has been a longtime dream come true,” said Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who added that she hopes the Courtyard Homeless Resource Center will be replicated countywide and statewide.
A veteran who swung a wrench at a North Las Vegas VA social worker last year was not arrested for nearly two months because the agency delayed in reporting the incident to local police, a newly released federal investigation found.