A Las Vegas ceremony on Tuesday honored more than 100 Nevada Test Site workers, veterans and civilians who have died since last year’s Cold War Patriots National Day of Remembrance.
Briana Erickson
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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.
Two Las Vegas sisters, both former USA Gymnastics national team members, filed racketeering lawsuits Monday against the organization and the team’s former doctor, Larry Nassar, who went to prison for sexually assaulting young gymnasts.
Nevada brothel owner and state Assembly candidate Dennis Hof has died, according to the Nye County Sheriff’s Office. He was 72.
A day after arriving in Las Vegas last month, Girlie Bloomquist and her family were waiting for a Section 8 housing voucher and initially went to the city of Las Vegas’ courtyard , at Foremaster Lane and Las Vegas Boulevard.
The remains of a dozen U.S. military veterans — and one spouse — were buried at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Tuesday after sitting in funeral homes for years, unclaimed by any living relatives.
People who paid up to $129 apiece to launch an illuminated flying lantern on Saturday in Jean were informed of the cancellation shortly before launch time. The company behind the event offered 40 percent off on tickets for next year.
Thousands of lanterns were sent into the night sky Friday during the first day of the fifth annual RiSE festival, this year’s event at the dry lake bed in Jean, 30 miles south of Las Vegas.
As part of the Racing Pigeon Cross Country Relay, local racing pigeons deliver a message first carried by a famous Black Check cock carrier pigeon named Cher Ami, who single-wingedly saved a beleaguered American battalion.
“Vegas Strong Baby” Wyatt Matheson turns 1 on Wednesday. He was born two days after his parents and uncle survived the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Nye County sheriff’s deputies order residents of longtime encampment for homeless to leave, but county and city have no place for them to go. Community members aim to fill the void and come up with some long-term solutions.
Oct. 1 shooting survivors Todd Wienke and his fiancee, Oshia Collins-Waters, chose to return to Las Vegas to marry on the anniversary of the tragedy.
Some survivors chose tattoos as a permanent mark of a moment that changed everything, using symbolism and their bodies as a way to process their experience and emotions.
Cosby accuser Lise-Lotte Lublin, a Las Vegas teacher, attended the comedian’s sentencing Tuesday in Philadelphia. “I can shake my hands, and say this is kind of the end, it’s done,” she said.
The nonprofit Guns To Hammers organization completed more than $20,000 worth of renovations on the home of veteran Ed Wiesing and his wife, Dana Wagner.
One by one, members of the Rancho High School color guard placed a red rose onto a white and blue wreath on Friday at Nellis Air Force Base — each representing a Nevadan listed as missing in action in U.S. military conflicts.