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Holiday to bring closures

December 31, 2008 - 10:00 pm

New Year's holiday closures:

Federal offices: Closed Thursday and Friday

State offices: Closed Thursday

County offices: Closed Thursday

Municipal offices: Closed Thursday

Courts: Closed Thursday

Boulder City: Closed Thursday and Friday

U.S. Postal Service: Closed Thursday

Las Vegas-Clark County Library District: Closed Thursday

North Las Vegas Library District: Closed Thursday

Henderson District Public Libraries: Closed at 1 p.m. Wednesday and all day Thursday

Clark County School District: Closed Thursday

College of Southern Nevada: Closed Thursday and Friday

NLV: Closed Thursday and Friday

Republic Services of Nevada: Regular trash collection

Southwest Gas: Closed Thursday

NV Energy: Closed Thursday

Review-Journal: Delivery as usual

Banks: Call individual bank

Current and former Clark County commissioners will face the state ethics over possible violatio ...

Clark County commissioners to face ethics board over accepting pricey F1 tickets

By Mary Hynes / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 7:00 pm

Current and former Clark County officials will face the Nevada ethics board over accepting Las Vegas Grand Prix tickets, an ethics panel has determined.

Henderson City Councilwoman Carrie Cox talks about embattled Henderson Police Chief Hollie Chad ...

‘I question how political this is’: Henderson City Council to study redistricting again

By Casey Harrison / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 6:19 pm

Carrie Cox’s re-election campaign said “strong evidence” showed that Henderson Mayor Michelle Romero had authorized the use of “internally crafted” population estimates independent of U.S. Census data to redraw the boundary of Cox’s Ward 3.

A Delta Air Lines airplane, seen in 2017 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Turbulence forces Delta flight to land, sends 25 people to hospitals

By Kathy McCormack The Associated Press

July 31, 2025 - 5:39 pm

Serious turbulence on a Delta Airlines flight sent 25 people to hospitals and forced the plane into an emergency landing in Minneapolis, the airline said.

An exterior view of the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Nevada congressman says he was denied entry to ICE center

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 8:20 pm

Rep. Steven Horsford said he was denied entry to a immigration detention center in Pahrump, alleging that he was told he posed a “security risk.”

Lynn Lessard, left, gets help putting on an eagle costume during a press conference about the S ...

‘Where is the water going to come from?’: Activists oppose new proposed Vegas airport

By Richard N. Velotta / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 3:50 pm

Concerns about water, the preference for high-speed rail also cited in FAA and BLM’s second scoping meeting for the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport.

Sam Brown speaks during a Building America’s Future roundtable event featuring Hispanic Nevad ...

US Senate confirms Sam Brown to VA role

By Jessica Hill / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 8:00 pm

Nevada’s Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto were the lone Democrats to vote to confirm Brown.

Whisper Owen and 8-month-old Sandra McCarty (Fresno County Sheriff’s Office/TNS)

2 weeks ago, she left a doctor’s appointment with her baby. They haven’t been found since

Annie Goodykoontz, Los Angeles Times

July 31, 2025 - 9:26 am

The search continues for a California woman and her 8-month-old daughter who vanished while on their way home after a doctor’s appointment, authorities and family said.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies during a House Energy a ...

A Las Vegas festival promised ways to cheat death. Two attendees left fighting for their lives

By Anjeanette Damon ProPublica

July 31, 2025 - 9:41 am

Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections as a way to fight aging.

Deputy General Manager Doa Ross was among the highest paid employees of the Southern Nevada Wat ...

SNWA employees cash out millions of dollars in sick, vacation days

By Mary Hynes / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 6:30 am

Employees with the Southern Nevada Water Authority benefit from a generous leave-accrual policy.

How did NYC shooter, with past mental-health holds, legally buy gun in Nevada?

By Katelyn Newberg and Mary Hynes / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 12:47 pm

Under Nevada law, being placed on an emergency mental health crisis hold in a psychiatric hospital is not enough to prevent you from being able to purchase a gun in the future.