While the final results of the investigation into the fire have not yet been released, Assistant Chief Ranger Mike Garel spoke about the incident in a Lake Mead quarterly meeting last week.
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Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center’s new HVAC program is the first of its kind, providing inmates vocational training that has usually been offered in men’s prisons.
A Metro officer shot and killed a man that police say was approaching officers with a metal baseball bat at a Las Vegas apartment complex.
Michael Harris, 63, died on Tuesday.
Corrections officers alleged that the department neglected to heed safety concerns from officers in the transfer of nearly 2,000 inmates between two state prisons.
A federal judge ordered that $550,000 in back wages and liquidated damages be paid out to more than 600 employees from a Las Vegas construction company.
A teen who waded into deep water and died at Lake Mead National Recreation Area over the Labor Day holiday weekend has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
It wasn’t yet confirmed as to whether the security measures were related to a nearby situation in which a person was threatening family members with a gun.
The Nevada State Board of Pharmacy said an out-of-state pharmacy was operating without a Nevada license when it sold and dispensed prescriptions from across state lines.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer accused of striking his 4-year-old son’s face four times pleaded guilty to one count of battery, court records show.
Ely State Prison, formerly the state’s maximum-security facility, has been downgraded to a medium-security facility, as High Desert State Prison takes its place.
After a Las Vegas police union said it won’t comply with an NFL facial recognition policy, Sheriff Kevin McMahill said he has “contingency plans in place” to keep games safe.
Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the arrest of a sergeant on suspicion of a “pattern of unlawful detentions” on the Strip is a “huge stain” on the department.
The fourth victim in the UNLV shooting on Dec. 6, 2023, has come forward, choosing to share his story publicly for the first time.
The boy was shot and killed at a Las Vegas apartment on Labor Day. An 18-year-old man has been arrested and faces a murder charge.