Mike and Cecy Hansen are raising a severely disabled 3-year-old boy damaged by parent abuse as an infant and a 2-year-old girl born to an alcohol and opiate addicted mother.
Briana Erickson
Former Reporter
Homeless people booked into Clark County and Las Vegas jails represented between 6 percent and 15 percent of the total inmate population last year, officials said Thursday.
Activists gathered on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest the two controversial city policies that ban camping downtown when there are beds available and during street cleaning hours.
Richard Roman, 68, says he’s come to terms with his eviction and is ready to open a new chapter in his life. “This was a stepping off place,” he said last week.
Some survivors of the mass shooting on the Strip called the rap song a disturbing glorification of the perpetrator. Others said it delivers a message that needs to be heard.
Residents displaced by the fire at the Alpine Motel and Apartments in Las Vegas have until Jan. 30 to sign up for government assistance, the city and county said Thursday.
Dozens of homeless assistance programs in Nevada will receive more than $16 million in federal grants with more than $13 million coming to Clark County.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday will discuss expanding on a controversial camping and sleeping ban to include hours when public sidewalks are being cleaned.
Residents displaced by the Alpine Motel Apartments fire in downtown Las Vegas three weeks ago say they are struggling to find other affordable housing.
Seventy soldiers of the 757th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion took part in a mobilization ceremony Friday before departing to Poland and nearby Baltic countries.
Las Vegas resident Tyge O’Donnell recently gave Pope Francis a bobblehead in his likeness wearing a Vegas Golden Knights jersey — a lighthearted memento that sprang from a dark day in history.
Prosecutors say Calvin Leslie continued to rent rooms and put bills in tenants’ names without their knowledge for more than a month after his arrest on elder abuse charges.
New Clark County-funded HopeLink program provides housing for families in the CPS system that are ready to reunite with their children and homeless families with kids.
The innovative public-private partnership between Clark County and Health Plan of Nevada aims to get medically fragile homeless into shelter and stave off serious illness.
A candlelight vigil was held Thursday in Las Vegas to remember the 109 homeless individuals who died in Clark County so far this year.