A 2-year-old child drowned in the west valley Monday afternoon.
The Metropolitan Police Department said officers responded to the drowing around 1:50 p.m. at a residence in the 3900 block of Redwood Street.
The child was taken to University Medical Center where they were pronounced dead, police said. An investigation is ongoing.
Nearly all air quality monitoring stations in the valley showed unhealthy levels for particulate matter at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Conditions may improve later in the day.
Two “travel-associated cases of Legionnaires’ disease” are being investigated at a Strip resort.
The National Park Service is closing a camping site in Lake Mead after an influx of “residential-type visitors” led to damaged natural resources and high rates of crime.
“The fire re-ignited overnight,” a California Highway Patrol staffer said early Saturday. “Northbound traffic (to Las Vegas) is all stopped.”
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority paid more than $2.2 million to influencers to promote the city, but experts say results are hard to track.
In the ongoing criminal case against former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks, prosecutors won’t say why they’ve dropped two of his charges.
Officers responded to East Cheyenne Avenue and Sandy Lane, near Las Vegas Boulevard, on Thursday just before 5 p.m., police said.
A move to eliminate homeless camps in California does not seem to be inspiring similar actions in the Las Vegas Valley or other parts of Nevada.
A Freed’s Bakery delivery truck caught fire on the 215 Beltway, leaving the truck — and several cakes — charred.
Two straight weekends of major directional closures on a 6-mile portion of Interstate 15 near the resort corridor kicked off Friday night.
