The political message in the desert is more than 4 miles long, according to a Reno resident who drove to the site with friends and retraced the path.
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Though she was unable to complete the naturalization process to become a United States citizen before her death, Maria Urrabazo achieved the American dream all the same.
“The pandemic is making an already very bad situation monumentally worse,” said Derek Price, CEO of Desert Hope Treatment Center.
For a second consecutive day, a peaceful Las Vegas demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody turned confrontational and chaotic.
Nevada law enforcement leaders on Thursday distanced their agencies from the actions of a Minneapolis police officer involved in the death of an unarmed black man.
The award from Nevada Women’s Philanthropy comes at a time when calls to SafeNest’s 24-hour domestic violence hotline have skyrocketed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our numbers have gone up really quickly in a short amount of time, which means that the virus is moving,” said Dawna Brown, director of Pyramid Lake Tribal Health Clinic.
After testing positive for the disease, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Rio Lacanlale worried about how many people she might have infected before her symptoms began.
Two more Nevada Department of Corrections employees have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total of positive cases among staff members to three.
The 9-month-old, who has a compromised immune system, was hospitalized before dawn on March 25 with symptoms identical to COVID-19.
The number of positive COVID-19 cases within the Metropolitan Police Department increased to three on Thursday. Metro announced its first positive case on Friday.
“It’s a wonderful time to spend with my kids, and to not be working and rushing so much,” said one Las Vegas resident.
With his siblings on the other side of the country, and his girlfriend barred from entering his hospital room, Howard Berman died alone on March 24 in Las Vegas.
“It makes you feel so isolated,” said Rachael Anderson, who was quarantined in a hospital room with her infant son before his test results came back negative.
The death of a man who was run over Friday by a pickup truck after a fistfight spilled into a central Las Vegas roadway has been ruled an accident by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A Las Vegas woman who died Sunday after crashing her motorcycle in the southwest valley has been identified.
“The question is not if we can prevent COVID-19 from entering ICE detention facilities in Nevada, it is how we can minimize its impact on individuals when it happens,” one immigration lawyer said.
“This response we’re seeing, the panicked shopping, is people trying to gain control of an unknown situation,” one psychologist said.
The Metropolitan Police Department Citizen Review Board has been without a full-time director since mid-July when its executive director went on medical leave.
The release of Las Vegas police body camera videos paints a more complete picture of how officers and firefighters worked together on the morning of the Alpine Motel Apartments fire.