The Las Vegas Valley could see highs below 100 degrees by midweek, according to the National Weather Service.
Rio Lacanlale
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Rio Lacanlale, whose work for the Review-Journal ranges from crime reports to video storytelling, joined the newspaper in October 2016. Before that, the UNLV broadcast journalism graduate contributed to newsrooms in central Italy and Washington, D.C. Rio is also a passionate traveler who enjoys living out of a backpack for months at a time.
Las Vegas police are investigating a deadly fight at the Mambos Nightclub east of the Las Vegas Strip that left one man dead early Sunday.
North Las Vegas and Henderson police departments were not fully outfitted with body-worn cameras before July 1, the day a statewide law took effect requiring law enforcement agencies to equip uniformed officers with portable recording devices.
A report of fire and smoke at a hotel west of the Strip late Saturday morning was a false alarm, according to Clark County firefighters.
An early Saturday crash in the central Las Vegas Valley critically injured one pedestrian.
An attempted robbery suspect who police said passed a “threatening note” to a bank teller Friday evening has not been identified.
Temperatures peaked at 109 degrees Saturday afternoon, just three degrees cooler than Friday’s 112-degree high.
A teenager who died Tuesday evening after bystanders saw him having difficulty swimming in the Lake Mead National Recreational Area has been identified as a 16-year-old from California.
A pedestrian who died early Wednesday after a crash in the central Las Vegas Valley has been identified.
A 3-year-old boy found unresponsive on Fourth of July in a neighbor’s pool west of the Las Vegas Strip has been identified.
The Las Vegas Valley sizzled through its seventh excessive heat warning Friday since June 1, making way for slightly cooler weekend temperatures thanks to a storm system passing through the valley.
A woman whose body was dragged outside a motel room last month near downtown Las Vegas died of a drug overdose, the Clark County coroner has determined.
A 76-year-old Las Vegas man died Sunday, four days after a crash left him hospitalized with what initially appeared to be survivable injuries.
A 17-year-old boy was airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital on Monday after a wakeboarding accident at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Jordan Walker died from multiple gunshot wounds after a shootout early Thursday on the 600 block of Rubber Tree Avenue, according to the Clark County coroner’s office, which ruled his death a homicide.