Nevada’s incident was identified Sunday morning, when the Nevada Highway Patrol and Nevada State Police dispatch phone lines went down.
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.
A 23-year-old motorcyclist died following a car crash in Las Vegas, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
MDMA contributed to the deaths of an EDC attendee and a second man who traveled to Las Vegas for the weekend event, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
The massive burn area that was affecting 132,685 acres is located 3 miles north of Tuscarora, which is about 500 highway miles north of Las Vegas.
Cheers for the Summerlin South youth baseball team erupted from a Las Vegas restaurant as the young athletes played in the championship game of the Little League World Series.
Rep. Steven Horsford said ICE inmates held in a Nevada detention center alleged that they were denied proper legal representation and timely health care treatment.
A Southern Nevada detention center that houses ICE detainees in deportation proceedings might double its ICE capacity by the end of the year, according to a report.
One of eight suspects arrested in a sting operation that targeted alleged child sex predators is a local pastor, according to a church that rented the suspect’s congregation space.
The U.S. government said that it didn’t intervene in the case of an Israeli government official arrested in an operation targeting alleged child sex predators in the Las Vegas Valley.
An Israeli government official was arrested in a multi-agency operation that targeted alleged “child sex predators” in the Las Vegas Valley earlier this month, according to international media reports.
The city of Las Vegas said Wednesday that it was not pursuing an ordinance that would’ve limited outdoor amplified noise during late-night hours at the popular Arts District.
The mayors of Southern Nevada’s three largest cities said they were optimistic about the future of their municipalities despite the region’s economic headwinds.
A man sought in a human trafficking investigation in Henderson carjacked a vehicle carrying a family from Colorado, according to police.
Alan Wolfley works at the North Las Vegas Water Reclamation Facility, which treats 20 million gallons of wastewater a day.
The 6,000-unit housing development would sit on 940 acres between the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument and land that belongs to the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe.