Loren and Margie Miller were just starting their cross-country trip when a devastating flash flood sent their vacation plans into a waterlogged tailspin.
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Crews were working around the clock on Tuesday to reopen highways that were washed out by flooding on Monday, the Nevada Department of Transportation said.
Phoenix recorded record rainfall for a single day on Monday, turning freeways into small lakes and sending rescuers scrambling to get drivers out of inundated cars.
Heavy rain pummeled Moapa on Monday, leaving nearly 100 students stranded and part of Interstate 15 closed after sections of the freeway washed away. Northbound lanes of I-15 were closed at the Moapa exit, about 50 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Chelsea Webster said, and southbound lanes were closed near Bunkerville.
Storms that flooded several Phoenix-area freeways and numerous local streets during the Monday morning commute set an all-time record for rainfall in Phoenix in a single day.
Gloria Lee, the woman facing dozens of animal cruelty charges in the Prince and Princess Pet Boutique fire, has been granted a temporary reprieve from house arrest.
Shortly before 8-year-old Isabella Grogan-Cannella was reported missing Tuesday, she was playing hide-and-seek with the family friend now charged in her disappearance and death.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed Thursday that the United States could become the “clean energy superpower” of the world if the nation and states such as Nevada lead in developing renewable energy sources from solar, wind and geothermal power.
A flash fire that injured 13 people at a Nevada science museum happened when an employee applied the chemicals in the wrong order during a tabletop demonstration about the mechanics of tornadoes, officials said Thursday.
A minor explosion during a science experiment at a children’s museum in Reno has burned at least six children and forced the evacuation of the museum.