Las Vegas police will begin enforcing a controversial camping ban on city streets on Saturday, but officials say they expect few fines or arrests.
Briana Erickson
Reporter: Homeless and veterans issues
Email: berickson@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-387-5244
Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
A new mobile app allowed volunteers to pinpoint the location of homeless people as they counted and administer a survey on the spot to those willing to answer a few questions.
An Air Force officer and drone pilot who fled a court-martial sentencing at Nellis Air Force Base was found dead of an apparent suicide in California, authorities say.
From Monday through Feb. 14, there will be heavy aircraft traffic to and from Nellis Air Force Base during Red Flag training exercises.
Mike and Cecy Hansen are raising a severely disabled 3-year-old boy damaged by parent abuse as an infant and a 2-year-old girl born to an alcohol and opiate addicted mother.
Homeless people booked into Clark County and Las Vegas jails represented between 6 percent and 15 percent of the total inmate population last year, officials said Thursday.
Activists gathered on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest the two controversial city policies that ban camping downtown when there are beds available and during street cleaning hours.
Richard Roman, 68, says he’s come to terms with his eviction and is ready to open a new chapter in his life. “This was a stepping off place,” he said last week.
Some survivors of the mass shooting on the Strip called the rap song a disturbing glorification of the perpetrator. Others said it delivers a message that needs to be heard.
Residents displaced by the fire at the Alpine Motel and Apartments in Las Vegas have until Jan. 30 to sign up for government assistance, the city and county said Thursday.
Dozens of homeless assistance programs in Nevada will receive more than $16 million in federal grants with more than $13 million coming to Clark County.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday will discuss expanding on a controversial camping and sleeping ban to include hours when public sidewalks are being cleaned.
Residents displaced by the Alpine Motel Apartments fire in downtown Las Vegas three weeks ago say they are struggling to find other affordable housing.
Seventy soldiers of the 757th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion took part in a mobilization ceremony Friday before departing to Poland and nearby Baltic countries.
Las Vegas resident Tyge O’Donnell recently gave Pope Francis a bobblehead in his likeness wearing a Vegas Golden Knights jersey — a lighthearted memento that sprang from a dark day in history.