The Henderson City Council on Tuesday night voted to take the interim tag off Richard Derrick’s title and make him city manager.
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.
More than 2,000 people attend Mass and ordination ceremony for Bishop George Leo Thomas, who was installed on Tuesday as the third bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas.
Gymnastics coach Cassie Rice owns a Henderson gym and has four children, including two she adopted from Uganda. This Mother’s Day, she’ll watch six kids from her gym family compete in Cincinnati.
Part of Nevada wildlife biologist Joe Barnes’ research on golden eagles in the state is a collaboration with other researchers in New Mexico, Wyoming and Idaho, who hope to answer different questions about what impacts eagle populations.
An escaped inmate who was recaptured in April died by suicide Saturday, while another is still at large and believed to be in Las Vegas, officials said.
Lise-Lotte Lublin, a sixth-grade teacher at Johnson Junior High School, was the fifth witness to testify in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial in Pennsylvania. In 2014, she came forward with allegations that the comedian had drugged and raped her inside a Las Vegas Hilton suite in 1989.
The newest member of the Metropolitan Police Department’s K-9 unit was introduced outside the South Central Area Command near the Strip, and he sported a Golden Knights jersey.
Thirteen furnished apartments were set aside for low-income veterans with disabilities who are facing the challenges of homelessness. After receiving thousands of applications, Patriot Place filled its 50 apartments quickly.
A project orchestrated by the nonprofit Guns To Hammers will be completed in just a few weeks to make the necessary accommodations for an ADA-compliant home for Las Vegas veteran Ed Wiesing.
Six people were displaced from a northeast valley apartment after fire engulfed their kitchen and living room, Clark County fire officials said. Smoke inhalation also sent one person to the hospital.
The weather in the Las Vegas Valley will be “hot and boring” this weekend moving into next week, with temperatures higher than the 80-degree average this time of year, according to the National Weather Service.
Brothels in two Nevada counties are facing an uncertain future as referendum petition drives get underway to repeal ordinances that allow their existence.
Thousands of frenzied fans filled the plaza outside T-Mobile Arena Wednesday for the first playoff game in Golden Knights history.
Parents of Brooke Hawley, one of the Centennial High School students killed March 29 when their car was rear-ended in Huntington Beach, California, have announced a scholarship in their daughter’s name.
Daniella Suarez, 24, and Julian Castillo, 15, died Saturday night when a tire came off another vehicle and hit the windshield of the Honda CRV they were in northbound on the highway near the Charleston Boulevard on-ramp.
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