Restaurants at The Linq Promenade reopened Saturday morning after Southwest Gas Corp. identified and repaired a gas leak on the property.
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Crews from the Clark County and Las Vegas fire departments are fighting a two-alarm fire at a construction site in the west valley Friday night.
With some 300,000 visitors descending on Las Vegas for a new year’s weekend of revelry, overindulgence and possible mayhem, area hospitals are gearing up for a potential flood of ailments and injuries. They’ve also got blueprints in place for the worst case scenario.
The request to defense attorneys suggests concern about the integrity of guilty pleas won via $2 police tests known to be prone to error.
The business, which launched in June at 4850 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 100, near West Tropicana Avenue, has temporarily shuttered local operations until its license and certification are again active.
The valley will see scattered showers over the next few days, but they won’t put a damper on New Year’s Eve, according to the National Weather Service.
More than half of the rooms in the Rio’s largest tower will remain dark through New Year’s Eve weekend after a major power outage that began early Thursday morning.
The school district and fellow trustees face an odd dilemma in addressing behavioral issues with Trustee Kevin Child, one of the district’s top seven bosses.
The commission has suspended Goodsprings Justice of the Peace Dawn Haviland with pay after concluding that she “poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public or to the administration of justice.”
In addition to the hundreds of officers working to protect the entire Las Vegas Valley on Saturday night, a half-dozen cops on horseback will patrol the Strip.
“This is the biggest show in the country, so I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else but here,” said Henry Herman, a company pyrotechnician for almost 30 years. “New York is nice, but the fireworks are not even close to being what they are here.”
Las Vegas police homicide detectives are investigating the death of James Allred, 69.
A Las Vegas FBI special agent was arrested at gunpoint in Michigan after shooting at a police sergeant, Grand Rapids police told a Michigan news website.