Health officials are reporting a surge in Southern Nevada flu cases so far this season, with double the number of hospitalizations and a 90 percent increase in reported cases compared to the same period last year.
North Las Vegas
Former Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins on Tuesday filed to run for a City Council seat in North Las Vegas, rather than running for mayor as he previously stated.
A semitrailer on its side blocked an Interstate 15 on-ramp Tuesday morning for almost four hours in North Las Vegas.
Damon Schilling had wanted to be a firefighter.
Mayoral races in North Las Vegas and Henderson are among upcoming municipal elections.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee said a priority for 2017 is to further raise the city’s bond rating, which fell to junk status during the recession but has gradually increased over the last few years.
Thousands of years before the Strip’s skyline rose in the Southern Nevada desert, pre-historic wolves, camels and mammoths roamed the region. Snails and other mollusks lived in the springs. The creatures left a treasure trove of fossils throughout Tule Springs.
About 120 people of various races and religions gathered at First African Methodist Episcopal Church for an event that advocated communication, understanding and love. The Jan. 15 discussion fell during the same week as Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
The Clark County coroner’s office dealt with more deaths in 2016 than in any other year in the last decade.
A 25-year-old man who was shot in the foot during a traffic stop this month has filed an excessive force lawsuit against the North Las Vegas Police Department.
The new city attorney for North Las Vegas will be paid $180,000 annually under a two-year employment agreement unanimously approved this week by the City Council.
A manual count of homeless in Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and unincorporated areas will run from 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24 to 4 a.m. the next day.
Clark County coroner’s office investigator Richard Jones got into the field for an instinctive reason: He was intrigued by what happens to people after they die.
North Las Vegas police Detective Chad Parque wanted to be a cop when he was 15 years old, and at 16 he dreamed of marrying the girl he was dating. Parque did both things – and well, by all accounts – before he was killed by a wrong-way driver while on duty on Jan. 6.
Las Vegas Valley motorists should be aware of potential traffic issues stemming from two police motorcades that are part of Tuesday’s funeral services for the North Las Vegas police detective who was killed in a car crash earlier in January.