It’s a mystery how a sky lantern — similar to the dozens that RiSE Festival promoters ignited and released at dusk Tuesday from the Jean Dry Lake bed — wound up 26 miles north of the launch site in Ken Du Pont’s swimming pool in Henderson.
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North Las Vegas’ downtown library might be in a smaller space — but the city’s hopes for the branch are big.
No marriage licenses were issued for same-sex couples in Clark County on Wednesday, and probably none will be issued on Thursday either, Clark County Clerk Diane Alba says.
A man Las Vegas police said was linked to a series of robberies has been arrested.
A December 2013 fatal police shooting was was justified, the Clark County district attorney’s office has determined.
An app designed to help federal law enforcement seek the public’s help with fugitive and suspected child predators is now available on Android smartphones and in Spanish.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two men connected to the armed robbery of a restaurant near the intersection of Paradise at Flamingo roads.
Hillary Clinton’s speech Monday to the UNLV Foundation will be open to press coverage, the university said Wednesday, as the former secretary of state considers a potential run for president in 2016.
A Los Angeles lawyer and two others have been indicted in a federal heroin trafficking case in Las Vegas. Glen Hunsberger and co-defendants Manuelle Alkeine and Jannifer Peskett were charged by a federal grand jury Tuesday with one felony count of conspiracy to distribute heroin.
A call came in about 9:50 a.m. Wednesday about a person threatening someone with a knife in the 6400 block of Bamboo Place, police say.
A national public safety accreditation agency has named Las Vegas City Councilman and former Metro officer Stavros Anthony as one of its commissioners.
Though a lot has changed at Lake Mead over five decades, the experience that draws people there by the millions remains much the same — despite all the bleak reports and doomsday predictions for the lake and the river that feeds it.
McCarran International Airport is not on the list of five U.S. airports where the government plans to begin taking the temperatures of travelers from West Africa as part of a stepped-up response to the Ebola epidemic.
State Sen. Mark Hutchison, R-Las Vegas, on Tuesday won the endorsement for lieutenant governor from Nevada’s oldest Hispanic political group, beating out Assemblywoman Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas.
From 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on the fourth Monday of every month, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health offers a free, interactive Art in the Afternoon program for anyone living with memory loss.
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Three hours before his clients arrived at the Las Vegas Grand Prix last year, Nevada Stupak was already there, walking the route they’d take that evening.
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto touted bipartisanship as she highlighted provisions in the recent defense spending bill, which increased pay for military service members.
The expanded department store version of the grocery store employs 200 people.
Elementary, middle and high school students will see changes to what time of day their classes will begin and end. The change is aimed to improve academic and health outcomes among students.
Nathan Chasing Horse is accused of targeting the Native American community and sexually assaulting multiple women.
