Here are five highlights from the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s breaking news reporter Akiya Dillon, who has covered police, crime, and courts.
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In a year that the Nevada Legislature met twice, including a special session in November, legislators passed hundreds of bills. Some of the laws take effect the first day of 2026.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a court order blocking the Trump administration from imposing unlawful conditions on two federal emergency grants.
The lawsuit suggested that former Metropolitan Police Department Capt. John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and that he kidnapped witnesses.
Nevada is among a group that will receive a nearly $150 million settlement with German automotive manufacturers accused of skirting emission regulations in vehicles
City of Las Vegas Communications Director David Riggleman’s final day is Feb. 2. He took his post on Oct. 4, 1999, in Oscar Goodman’s first term.
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Donald Trump championed has mostly held, but progress has slowed recently.
CCSD’s Central Kitchen is the school district’s hub for producing and distributing meals that fed students an average of 238,000 meals per day last year.
When the crowd of over 340,000 revelers ring in the new year this week on the Strip, many roads in and around the resort corridor will be shut to traffic.
Ashlee Buzzard, the California mother accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee Buzzard, pleaded not guilty Friday morning during a brief but emotional arraignment in Santa Barbara County Superior Court.
A tornado did, in fact, spin through Los Angeles on Christmas, the National Weather Service confirmed, damaging a home and a commercial strip mall.
A failed studio tax break push, party politics and budget challenges led Nevada political stories this year.
Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91.
A scandal, a meltdown, a million-dollar benefit. These were among the top stories covered by investigative reporter Mary Hynes this year.
Jeffrey R. Holland, a high-ranking official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was next in line to become the faith’s president, has died.
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The decision to raise fees and tuition for non-resident students by up to 12 percent over the next three years is aimed at addressing a budget shortfall.
The former Raiders coach sued the league in 2021, arguing that leaked emails written by him had pushed the Raiders to fire him.
Leaders of law enforcement organizations expressed alarm Sunday over the latest deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis while use-of-force experts criticized the Trump administration’s justification of the killing, saying bystander footage contradicted its narrative of what prompted it.
CCSD says middle schoolers will take semester exams in four subjects starting next school year. The tests aim to monitor and improve student academic performance.
