Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks about minimum wage with news media following a speech at an AFL-CIO conference at the Luxor hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
At least one person was hurt after a propane tank exploded at Vegas Balloon Rides, 4390 Polaris Ave., near the intersection of Harmon Avenue west of the Strip on Tuesday morning.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ 32nd annual conference at the Aria.
The Air Force takes over a long-standing casino property in Indian Springs to make way for a security buffer at Creech Air Force Base.
Local and federal narcotics detectives confiscated about $200,000 worth of marijuana plants Thursday in the southwest valley, Las Vegas police said. The team of investigators — from Metro, Henderson police and the Drug Enforcement Administration — collected about 100 plants from a home in the 6200 block of West Levi Avenue, near South Jones Boulevard and Cactus Avenue. The bust went down about 11 a.m.
Nevadans for Background Checks on Monday launched a statewide campaign to gather signatures for a proposed 2016 ballot initiative to expand required background checks to all gun sales in Nevada, with certain exceptions.
Backers included religious and law enforcement leaders as well as state Sen. Justin Jones, D-Las Vegas, who sponsored similar expanded gun background check legislation in the 2013 session.
Isabel Duff,director of the Southern Nevada VA Healthcare System, discusses doctor shortages and long patient wait times at the new North Las Vegas VA medical facility.