North Las Vegas’ biggest employee union and its firefighters union have agreed to settlements with the city of North Las Vegas.
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Assemblyman Tryone Thompson, D-North Las Vegas, will have a new position with Clark County effective April 21, Tim Burch, director of the county’s Social Service Department, announced on Wednesday morning.
Las Vegas police say a 21-year-old man hopped up on amphetamines and oxycodone stabbed two men in the east valley on Monday, killing one and wounding another.
A 19-year-old man has agreed to plead guilty to DUI charges for crashing a speeding vehicle into a crowded Las Vegas restaurant while under the influence of prescription drugs, marijuana and “spice,” a synthetic form of marijuana.
About 100 employees at the valley’s two largest water agencies are about to lose their jobs. “It’s a significant layoff,” said Scott Huntley, spokesman for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Valley Water District.
The trial for a 23-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting and killing a Las Vegas woman and her daughter and nearly killing a man with a hammer in the attack in April 2012 was delayed for the second time, court records said.
Las Vegas resident Travis Doering, 40, died of a gunshot wound to the head after at least one SWAT officer fired at him on Tuesday. He had left his home in the 5700 block of Macenta Avenue, near Twain Avenue and Lindell Road, armed with a rifle.
The inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs is finalizing an investigation into how the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas handled treatment of Sandi Niccum, a 78-year old blind veteran who waited six hours in pain for emergency care in October, Congress was told Wednesday.
A Las Vegas author shares his story of redemption in “The Tommie Scott Story: From Gangs, Drugs, and Crime to Soldier for Christ.”
Southern Nevada health officials repeated the hand-washing mantra Wednesday after saying at least 200 people in the Las Vegas-area caught a recent stomach bug.
Highlights this week include a literary event featuring Mike Prince at 2 p.m. April 13 at the Desert Willow Community Center.
A mental competency hearing was ordered for a North Las Vegas man accused of butchering his mother and sister, mutilating one of the bodies with a chainsaw and then living in a home with the decomposing bodies, court records show.
The operator of a large Las Vegas escort service pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to a felony charge of evading $230,651 in taxes.