The Las Vegas Valley will get a reprieve from rain, with cool weather and either partly cloudy or sunny skies forecast through early next week.
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Originally from San Jose, Calif., Rachel Spacek graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2017 with a B.A. in Journalism. Following graduation, Rachel worked as a business intern at the Los Angeles Times, a staff reporter with The Record-Courier and a freelance reporter for the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers, before starting at the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018.
Omar Smith of Henderson estimates he has put in over 20 hours a week, in addition to frequent overtime shifts at Las Vegas City Jail, while coaching two flag football teams to the NFL Flag National Championships.
Before she was fatally shot last week, 17-year-old Indya Willis was gearing up for all of the exciting events that come with one’s senior year in high school, her mother said.
A cold front bringing lower temperatures and wind is expected to hit the Las Vegas Valley on Saturday evening, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Trevor Boucher.
Eight people were overcome by carbon monoxide early Friday morning in central Las Vegas.
A 43-year-old massage therapist was charged with sexual assault after a woman claimed he licked her at a Las Vegas chiropractor’s office in May, according to court documents.
After years of adapting her daughter’s clothing to meet the girl’s needs, Nikki Green started a clothing line for children with disabilities.
When Maria Gerardi met Hailey Dawson while looking for an engineering project to help with her UNLV graduate school thesis, she knew she had picked the right career.
Las Vegas nurse Brent Maxfield got a close-up look at the destruction wreaked by one of the wildfires ravaging California.
The Las Vegas Valley will see little change in the weather into early Thanksgiving week, with mostly sunny skies and highs in the upper 60s and overnight lows dipping into the 40s.
Interacting with listeners is among the biggest rewards of performing, storytellers say. That’s part of what attracted 12 to 20 members to the Nevada Storytelling Guild, the Las Vegas affiliate of the National Storytelling Network.
An excuse to visit Las Vegas was a reason several runners cited for participating in Sunday’s races, including a marathon, half-marathon and 10K. More than 40,000 people from 50 states and 86 countries registered for the event, according to organizers.
Each day, during the after-lunch activity sessions, six to 10 Poet’s Walk Henderson residents gather in the lunch room on a small couch and chairs.