North Las Vegas employees will move into a spacious new City Hall next month, but comparatively few of them are left to fill it thanks to layoffs and a hiring freeze.
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The lyrics of Justin Bieber’s pop hit “Baby” blared through the sound system on Friday night at Eldorado Park . Some of the more than 200 in attendance danced, others giggled. The song may have seemed out of place for another candlelight vigil, but here, mixed with tears, it somehow fit.
Authorities arrested 21 fugitives, including 14 related to sex offenses, this week in Nevada’s fifth annual Operation Trick-or-Treat.
An accidental attic fire on Friday morning gutted the kitchen and family room of a duplex in Sun City Summerlin, leaving an estimated $175,000 in damages and an elderly woman with minor smoke-inhalation injuries.
In recent memory, Halloween holiday weekend in Las Vegas has been a safe one, full of more treats than tricks.
With the number of pedestrian fatalities in Nevada nearly double the national average, traffic experts became more aggressive in their attempts to improve not only crosswalk markings but the contentious relationship between pedestrians and motorists.
A 78-year-old driver who struck three girls in a crosswalk last week did not brake, carried one child almost 150 feet and had a clearer view of the intersection than initially reported, according to North Las Vegas police.
At a meeting several years ago, then-Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid asked Sheriff Doug Gillespie about the progress of a new Las Vegas police headquarters.
The message “Stay in school. Don’t do drugs” lost some credibility for Lewis Turner on Wednesday. That is when he discovered police had arrested his daughter’s sixth-grade math teacher at school the previous day with cocaine and a snorting straw in her purse.
The Lady Luck, the shuttered hotel-casino that former Mayor Oscar Goodman once called a “carcass,” will be reborn as the Downtown Grand.
Two teenage boys fled the scene on foot after crashing a Chevrolet Camaro into an area transit bus at 90 to 100 mph Tuesday, Las Vegas police said. The accident happened at Russell Road and Durango Drive about 4:45 p.m.
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The videos were released hours after the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a column disputing the department’s earlier refusals to share the recordings.
The Henderson Police Department said this week it has begun a campaign targeting illegal electric motorcycle use ahead of the holiday season. Meanwhile, Clark County created a public service announcement with a pediatric doctor at UMC.
Las Vegas is closing out a calm, mild week with another day of sunshine Friday, continuing the stretch of clear skies that has held over the valley since earlier in the week.
The report states that Chandler Pike, 29, “did not like” that the woman would be home late for the Thanksgiving holiday after working a busy policing shift.
