The VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas plans a town hall and festival this weekend for veterans and their families.
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.
Veteran Ana Martinez, who just a couple of years earlier had been living out of her car, had the key to her new Las Vegas home, and now it was time for one more thing Friday morning. The brand-new American flag, still bright and shiny and creased from packaging.
Decorated 97-year-old World War II fighter pilot Clarence “Bud” Anderson made an appearance Thursday at Nellis Air Force Base.
After a good week of fundraising, 96-year-old Onofrio “No-No” Zicari of Las Vegas is set to return to France’s Normandy coast, where he endured the worst hours of his life.
On the night of the Route 91 Harvest shooting, William King shielded his girlfriend with his body, taking a bullet in his back. On Friday, the two exchanged vows in Henderson.
At 96, Onofrio “No-No” Zicari is finally ready to return to the spot where he spent the worst hours of his life.
Other homeless residents admit to being unnerved by the back-to-back fatalities — one a homicide, the other a pedestrian death — but others say they simply underscored a central truth of life on the streets: “There ain’t no safety.”
Disorderly conduct and attempted theft charges against Dr. S. Jay Hazan, who grabbed the keys to a shuttle bus after the driver refused to take him straight home from a doctor’s appointment, will be dismissed if he stays out of trouble.
Organizations that minister to the Las Vegas Valley’s homeless are applauding the Clark County Commission’s vote last month to direct up to $12 million a year in marijuana fees to build new housing.
The VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System will co-host a Veterans Transition Fair and quarterly town hall meeting Saturday at its location in North Las Vegas.
Michael Yates ,is head of the national Blue Water Navy Association, which helped fund the appeal that led to a federal court victory that will extend the VA benefits to roughly 50,000 who served at sea during the Vietnam War.
Dozens of homeless assistance programs in Nevada will receive nearly $15 million in federal grants, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday.
Six months after it began operating around the clock, the complex where the homeless can sleep and access a range of services has seen the departure of the main contractor hired to run it and a delay in planned construction.
A file of volunteers and workers counting the homeless in Las Vegas on Tuesday night passed beneath a railroad overpass on Washington Avenue near Main Street without stopping, but William Kight paused to take a closer look.
In January 2017, Alexandria Sawin enrolled at UNLV, where she served as the first woman president of the Rebel Vets organization. On Sunday, the 27-year-old was named the 2018 Student Veteran of the Year, the highest individual honor given by the nonprofit Student Veterans of America.