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Following a week of interviews, campus tours, meetings and forums, all three finalists for UNLV president on Monday will have an opportunity to address the Nevada System of Higher Education presidential search committee at a public meeting at the Marietta Tiberti Grand Hall in the Richard Tam Alumni Center.
Gina Gavan, the woman tasked with brokering the economic development deals that could make or break cash-strapped North Las Vegas, started Monday .
The 2014-15 contract for Clark County’s public school administrators will cost $5.29 million more than the previous year due largely to a 2.79 percent across-the-board pay increase for 1,300 staff.
Fifty years ago, Bonanza Airlines Flight 114 from Phoenix was on approach to McCarran Field when it slammed into the top of the mountain and tumbled, scattering wreckage across the rocky plateau. The crash killed everyone on board — 29 people doomed by a faulty chart in a freak snow storm.
One man is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in the southeast valley Thursday night, according to Las Vegas police.
Clark County commissioners are scheduled to reintroduce the oft-derided sales tax proposal on Tuesday.
North Las Vegas police are investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy who was hospitalized earlier this week and later died.
Las Vegas police on Friday identified the man they say fatally shot another man following a possible road rage incident in the southwest valley on Thursday.
The man who was struck and killed on Interstate 15 earlier this week has been identified as a resident of Switzerland.
Waldo De Castroverde, 73, who died on Saturday, was a paratrooper and one of 1,400 Cuban exiles who took part in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, which was unsuccessful in its mission to overthrow Fidel Castro and his communist government.
Nevada Power has asked the state Public Utilities Commission to reconsider its October decision to reject construction of a 200-megawatt solar project on the Moapa River Paiute Indian Reservation.
A marijuana bust in a remote mountain range in northeast Nye County netted $34 million worth of plants, according to estimates from sheriff’s deputies there.
The Nevada Department of Corrections announced Friday that an inmate who was serving an 18- to 48-month sentence for battery has died.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Winter is the perfect time to tend to your deciduous trees and shrubs. These plants, which lose their leaves, are easier to prune now that their structure is clearly visible. Pruning during winter dormancy is less stressful, allowing the plant to store energy for strong spring blooms and fruit production. Winter pruning is crucial for the health and longevity of deciduous shade trees and many spring-blooming shrubs.
The Metropolitan Police Department provided more details about a pair of January police shootings.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man accused of burglarizing a home in Summerlin in December.
Police said T’Shawn Allen, 27, stole hundreds of dollars from businesses such as Pink Box Donuts, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Pretty Soul Kitchen and caused potentially thousands in damages over a two-day theft spree.
According to the National Weather Service service, Harry Reid International Airport reached 34 degrees early Saturday morning but multiple sites across the valley reported teperatures below freezing.
