The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District announced Saturday night that it will temporarily close all branches starting Wednesday “to stem the increasing spread of the COVID-19 virus across the Las Vegas Valley.”
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A pedestrian died in a crash involving a semitrailer on U.S. Highway 95 northwest of Las Vegas on Saturday night.
The governor’s proclamation also recognizes the state’s namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, which was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack.
Like a moment in a science fiction film, the metal monolith recently found in remote southeast Utah has disappeared.
The California-based fast-food chain opened its first restaurant in the Centennial State on Friday in Aurora, and the wait was extremely long, according to the Aurora Police Department.
An Arizona company is recalling ready-to-eat chicken and pork tamale products containing FDA-regulated diced tomatoes in puree because of concerns that the products may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically hard plastic, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture news release Sunday.
Traffic was backed up for 13 miles on the way out of Las Vegas to California on Sunday afternoon, according to a tweet from the Regional Transportation Commission.
After several days of nearly breaking daily high records, the Las Vegas Valley reached 86 degrees Wednesday, breaking the record-high temperature.
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds returned from its last show of the season in Sanford, Florida.
For many Americans, clocks will move back an hour, officially at 2 a.m. Sunday, bringing an end to daylight saving time.
A natural gas leak caused the evacuation of a Target store in the western Las Vegas Valley, fire officials said Sunday.
Traffic was backed up for 7 miles on the way out of Las Vegas to California at 1:40 p.m. Sunday, according to a tweet from the Regional Transportation Commission.
Police said Cheryl Beardall was last seen in July in Henderson.
Sunday traffic jams are becoming the norm on Interstate 15 at the California-Nevada border at Primm.
Traffic was backed up for 6 miles on the way out of Las Vegas to California on Sunday afternoon, according to a tweet from the Regional Transportation Commission.