North Las Vegas will save more than $40 million in interest over the next 18 years after closing a sale of general obligation bonds this week.
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Blake Apgar joined the Review-Journal as a general assignment reporter in January 2017 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. He interned at the Review-Journal in the summer of 2016, and now covers North Las Vegas and Henderson government. He was raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The $175,000 project has a deadline of the end of next August, but officials expect the structures to be complete earlier than that, city spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said.
Twenty-one Community Ambulance employees who were on scene when gunfire erupted at the Route 91 Harvest festival were honored in Henderson Monday morning.
The departure of Republican Becky Harris created a ripple effect in the race for the Nevada Senate seat that represents the southwest corner of the Las Vegas Valley.
A public review of the dismissed manslaughter case of a former Las Vegas police officer provided little new information Monday, but it did stoke frustration among critics over how the case was handled.
The planned facility near Executive Airport Drive and St. Rose Parkway would house 1½ indoor football fields, a 200-seat theater, a training center and office space. At 323,000 square-feet, the planned headquarters is about twice the size of the MGM Grand’s casino.
Henderson will get a new sign to welcome visitors to its downtown district.
National Park Service investigators are seeking information about a stabbing that happened at Lake Mead National Recreation Area this month.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a woman who Las Vegas police say was randomly stabbed to death Wednesday after an argument outside an east valley convenience store.
Las Vegas police have announced the arrest of a man in the death of a woman whose body was found at Clark County Wetlands Park in June. Another man also was arrested on a related kidnapping charge.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man who Las Vegas police said was shot and killed Sunday night during an altercation with his stepfather in the western valley.
Barbara Jacobs, 73, died Thursday after apparently suffering a medical episode and crashing a car into the garage at her home on the 3400 block of Herring Gull Lane in North Las Vegas.
The preserved traces of mammoths, camels, bison, horses, sloths and dire wolves have been found on the grounds at the new Ice Age Fossils State Park, according to the Nevada State Parks website.
The Regional Transportation Commission will operate four nonstop bus routes to Golden Knights games for the team’s second season.
Three people are dead Monday after what Las Vegas police are calling a double homicide-suicide in the northwest valley.