Thousands of homes and businesses are without power Friday night in the northwestern part of the valley after an issue with three major electrical distribution lines, NV Energy officials said.
Jesus Arevalo, the Metro Police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Gulf War veteran nearly 18 months ago, faces termination from the force, Sheriff Doug Gillespie announced Friday afternoon.
Aircraft at Nellis Air Force Base will spend less time in the skies over Nevada beginning Saturday as the Air Force cuts thousands of flight hours – the latest ramification of federal budget cuts on the military.
Andrew Sasse loved all things Bonanza High School, all things people and all things Jesus Christ in his 17 years of life. It was fitting, then, that the Shadow Hills Church gymnasium was filled with all those things on Wednesday for his memorial service.
Lake Mead is more than just a body of water leading up to the architectural wonder that is Hoover Dam. A closer look at the lake reveals a region full of hidden gems and activities that go beyond a fun-filled afternoon on the water. There are hiking trails that lead to hot springs, a diversity of wilderness terrains that go from craggy cliffs to flat valleys, and a sunken World War II B-29 bomber among the many areas to explore in the national recreation area.
Bo Hash arrived at St. Rose Dominican Hospitals — Rose de Lima Campus with two Bounty paper towels wrapped around his bloodied right hand and his thumb in a red Dixie cup.
A sea of red-shirted protesters gathered at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sunset Road on Saturday to join in a global march against food giant Monsanto Co. and the right to know what’s in their food.
A feeling of apprehension consumed Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar owners Tabitha and John Simmons moments before it opened the doors to its new location on Paradise Road on Friday. Almost a month prior, the restaurant’s old location was shut down by health inspectors after a major salmonella outbreak sickened 294 patrons. The restaurant may have moved only a couple of blocks to its new location, but they wondered, would the customers follow?
Moments before the Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas water park opened on Friday, investor Roger Bulloch faced the crowd from a podium and realized his time was limited.
Sandra Moncayo sits in a patient’s room awaiting her regular acupuncture treatment at Mike O’Callaghan Federal Medical Center situated on Nellis Air Force Base on a mid-May morning. The military hospital has become an unlikely center where Eastern and Western medicine collide. It’s a place where military doctors combine the holistic practice of acupuncture with their medical expertise to treat pain for countless airmen and veterans.
A third person has been charged in the death of an exotic bird at Flamingo’s wildlife habitat. Hazhir Kargaran faces three misdemeanors in conjunction with the death of Turk, a 14-year-old helmeted guinea fowl, on Oct. 12.
A suspicious black cylindrical object closed U.S. 95 for more than an hour Wednesday before Las Vegas Fire and Bomb squad investigators determined it was harmless.
Growing up, Cherann Escalante remembered her community coming together to hold a car wash every time tragedy struck. On Saturday, she held a car wash for 15-year-old Marcos Arenas, who died Thursday fighting two men trying to steal his iPad.
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A car traveling at full speed collided into the rear end of another car attempting to merge from a lane closed off for construction Thursday night on the 215 Beltway near Warm Springs Road.
A female volunteer basketball coach at Shadow Ridge High School was arrested Thursday on two counts of sexual misconduct with a student and one count of child luring, according to Clark County School District Police.
North Las Vegas Police arrested a man on Tuesday suspected of shooting and killing his wife following an investigation into her death that was initially reported as a suicide.
The radio advertisement sounded almost too good to be true. Than Merrill, star of the reality show “Flip This House” and CEO of Fortune Builders, offering a free, one-time-only, two-hour real estate investment workshop to teach you how to make riches.
Ginger Smith sips on her iced coffee underneath the partial shade outside a Starbucks as a hot April sun beats down on her. She’s at a table with four people from a group called Project Aqua for a meeting. Smith reaches down to pet Chico – a cocoa brown Chihuahua, her “angel doggie” – sunbathing next to her as she listens. Smith’s hands are leathery and worn and covered in a thin layer of grime, but Chico nuzzles them regardless. A black grocery bag of food sits on Smith’s lap, and another grocery bag with a folded up cardboard sign is on the ground next to her.
At the time, RO Truck and Equipment maintained construction fleet vehicles and fabricated equipment for construction companies. But the economy was collapsing; Las Vegas’ construction boom was fizzling. RO’s revenue was dwindling. Machin and Edwards decided their company needed to make a change to survive. So they came up with a new business plan: They backed out of construction and moved into bus repairs.
Marixa Cota held her son Joshua as they walked with other families through the palm-tree-lined confines of Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at the Mirage Saturday. They marveled at splashing dolphins, sleeping lions and a pacing shadow leopard. Joshua acted like any 2-year-old would.
A van crashed through the front entrance of a KFC on Friday after colliding with a pickup truck outside the fast-food restaurant. Metro Police received reports of the crash about 3:10 p.m. at the KFC in the 2300 block of Windmill Lane, near Eastern Avenue.
Police officers from Metro and Henderson Police departments were given the National Association of Police Organizations Top Cops award, and will be honored by President Barack Obama on Saturday.
A 41-year-old motorcyclist is in critical condition Wednesday after he lost control of the motorcycle while speeding on Bingham Avenue and slid into a curb.
Work tonight could back up traffic at a key downtown intersection. Traffic signals at Charleston and Las Vegas boulevards will be out of service from 7 p.m. to midnight for signal maintenance.
The argument started over an unpaid $50 debt outside Richard Blevins’ downtown Las Vegas home on April 29, and it ended with several gunshots and his death.
Rachelle Ryerson made the switch to a vegan lifestyle two years ago. Now Ryerson, a Las Vegas model, says she’s in the best shape of her life, and the public seems to have noticed.
Legacy High School student Quortney Judie remembers fighting back tears as she and her Batteries Included peers passed out shoes and clothing to homeless children.
The boy killed in the vacant house fire Thursday has been identified as 7-year-old Jacob West, according to the Clark County Coroner’s Office. West and his brother had been lighting fireworks and setting items on fire inside an unlocked vacant home in the 2300 block of Howard Lane.
Fire investigators determined on Friday that an electrical malfunction sparked the fire that caused $1 million in damage to a medical building near Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, Clark County Deputy Fire Chief Erik Newman said.
Fire investigators determined on Friday that an electrical malfunction sparked the fire that caused $1 million in damage to a medical building near Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, Clark County Deputy Fire Chief Erik Newman said.