An online fundraiser organized to help the family of slain UNLV professor Patricia Navarro Velez had raised more than $63,000 Friday night.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Local Government Reporter
Email: rtorres@reviewjournal.com
Ricardo Torres-Cortez covers the city of Las Vegas and Clark County. He returned to the Review-Journal, where he’d interned, after a five-year stint at the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. A Mexican-born graduate of UNLV, he’s passionate about soccer, video games, books and coffee.
Shooting survivors acknowledged that living in the streets is dangerous but said their fleeting sense of safety was shattered at their homeless encampment days earlier.
The city of Las Vegas will require microchipping beginning in August for pet dogs and cats.
The CARE Complex nonprofit aims to “fill gaps in services” the city and other organizations can’t keep up with, according to its founder.
No matter how well-trained and cautious they are, a highway patrol trooper’s career continues to be inherently dangerous, said the head of the Nevada State Police Union on Thursday, hours after two troopers were killed.
From the moment Nevada State Police announced that two of its troopers were killed by a hit-and-run motorist early Thursday, officials began expressing sorrow, reacting with condolences.
Two Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Thursday on northbound Interstate 15 near D Street. The driver was later arrested.
It doesn’t take much for a dry tree to catch fire, whether it’s through a common electric spark or even a static touch, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
Assemblywoman Shondra Summers-Armstrong said she will run to replace Councilman Cedric Crear.
Starting next year, cash payments for entry to the park will not be accepted.
Nicholas “Ola” Marasco, Darnell Calahan and Beya Tep play for the Las Vegas Raiders team in the USA Wheelchair Football League.
Two private ambulance companies that operate within the city of Las Vegas will continue to do so after they received contract extensions this month.
A bicyclist was struck and killed by a bus Friday afternoon in the southeast valley, according to Las Vegas police.
The city of Las Vegas approved an “order out corridor” for the downtown tourist district that could ban convicted misdemeanor offenders from the area with a court order.
While the city of Las Vegas doesn’t know how many sidewalk food vendors operate within its jurisdiction, it estimates that only about 25 of them might seek upcoming licensing.