A break from the Las Vegas heat spell is on its way — but you’ll have to wait until early next week for it.
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Las Vegas fire officials are urging safety as they anticipate an uptick in at-home fireworks around Fourth of July with more people staying home amid the pandemic.
A plan to reopen Clark County schools has emerged, with students attending class two days a week and learning online outside of school for three days a week.
Two training officers at the Henderson Police Department tested positive for COVID-19 this week, the department said.
The site is on the first floor of the hotel and casino’s parking garage, off Rancho Drive and Coran Lane. Testing also is available for individuals on foot or on motorcycle.
Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas in the southwest valley opened for the season on Monday.
As the six-month anniversary of the deadly Alpine Motel Apartments fire neared, survivors recounted stories of financial despair, relocation and lost possessions.
It involves an overseas posting, a COVID-19 diagnosis and the “patient” delivering his third baby on a sofa in his family’s 1,200-square-foot apartment in Spain.
The event celebrating the day when news of emancipation reached the last enslaved people in Texas included vendors, musical performances and speeches.
“African Americans embrace it because if one black person isn’t free … it is as if none of us are free,” UNLV professor Tyler D. Parry says.
About 100 people stood outside Las Vegas City Hall on Wednesday morning, with NAACP demonstrators calling out what they said was the “reckless behavior” of council members.
Belinda Harris said in a Facebook post Sunday morning that Las Vegas and North Las Vegas police threw her to the ground while she was monitoring protesters Saturday night.
UNLV removed the Hey Reb! statue in front of the Tam Alumni Center after nearly a year of outcry from Native American students on campus.
Body-worn camera footage released by the Metropolitan Police Department shows two photographers identify themselves as journalists multiple times as they were arrested during a protest on May 29.
A much-anticipated plan for reopening doors at the Clark County School District will come before the board next week, according to Superintendent Jesus Jara.
The Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 ruling that Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1964, the provision that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.
Las Vegas police said they are “reviewing actions taken by both protesters and law enforcement” after several legal observers were arrested at a protest against police brutality on the Strip last weekend.
A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper who risked his life to save a woman clinging to the edge of a Las Vegas Valley highway overpass said Monday he was just doing his job.
A Black Lives Matter protest that began at 6 on Sunday night at Molasky Family Park ended after five hours and without any police presence or arrests.
At least seven legal observers were cited for standing in a roadway during an otherwise peaceful protest Saturday along Las Vegas Boulevard.
After more than two hours of marching, a protest Saturday night on the Strip ended in the arrests of multiple people, including some legal observers.
He turned away from the firing and toward four officers in a car who were sent out to help with the protests. Those officers said Gomez charged at them with a loaded riffle in his hand. The four officers shot Gomez 19 times.