The Clark County School Board voted Wednesday to shift attendance boundaries for eight elementary schools, one middle school and one high school for 2014-2015. The Clark County School District campuses targeted by rezoning are struggling with enrollments that exceed their capacities.
Hospital emergency rooms throughout the valley are closing their doors to ambulances because the mentally ill are now occupying available beds at a rate higher than in 2004, when the problem prompted then Gov. Kenny Guinn to declare a state of emergency.
The state’s multi-agency investigation of a Las Vegas elementary school for possible irregularities in student test scores is drawing to a close and findings will be written in a couple weeks, State Superintendent of Public Schools Dale Erquiaga said on Wednesday. He will present the investigation’s findings to the Nevada Board of Education in April.
The Nevada Board of Education decided Wednesday to lower the minimum passing score on the math test required to graduate high school to 242 out of 500 possible points for current sophomores and juniors. Previously, these students needed to earn a minimum score of 300.
House leaders agreed to postpone committee votes Thursday on a bill to create a national monument in Southern Nevada after a furor erupted over profits from land sales in the measure, lawmakers said.
Two people, ages 92 and 95, were taken to University Medical Center after an accident near Spring Mountain Ranch State Park Wednesday afternoon.
A large low-pressure system off California’s coast is expected to make landfall in Southern Nevada on Friday, bringing at least a quarter-inch of rain in the Spring Mountains, which might not bode too well for the Carpenter 1 fire area, a meteorologist said Wednesday.
Miguel Reyes has been dancing since he was 12 years old, and has been all about the show for even longer. Proposing to the woman of his dreams was no exception.
The Las Vegas Fire Department rescued a worker who was injured Wednesday while working in a construction area on Vegas Drive near Michael Way.
Samantha Johnson is shooting for the moon and hoping at least to land among the stars, or with any luck find someone who has been among them. The 6-year-old Sunrise resident is on a mission to meet an astronaut.
