Thousands of years before the Strip’s skyline rose in the Southern Nevada desert, pre-historic wolves, camels and mammoths roamed the region. Snails and other mollusks lived in the springs. The creatures left a treasure trove of fossils throughout Tule Springs.
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About 120 people of various races and religions gathered at First African Methodist Episcopal Church for an event that advocated communication, understanding and love. The Jan. 15 discussion fell during the same week as Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
The Clark County coroner’s office dealt with more deaths in 2016 than in any other year in the last decade.
A 25-year-old man who was shot in the foot during a traffic stop this month has filed an excessive force lawsuit against the North Las Vegas Police Department.
The new city attorney for North Las Vegas will be paid $180,000 annually under a two-year employment agreement unanimously approved this week by the City Council.
A manual count of homeless in Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and unincorporated areas will run from 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24 to 4 a.m. the next day.
Clark County coroner’s office investigator Richard Jones got into the field for an instinctive reason: He was intrigued by what happens to people after they die.
North Las Vegas police Detective Chad Parque wanted to be a cop when he was 15 years old, and at 16 he dreamed of marrying the girl he was dating. Parque did both things – and well, by all accounts – before he was killed by a wrong-way driver while on duty on Jan. 6.
Las Vegas Valley motorists should be aware of potential traffic issues stemming from two police motorcades that are part of Tuesday’s funeral services for the North Las Vegas police detective who was killed in a car crash earlier in January.
Irvine, California-based restaurant Habit Burger Grill opened its first location in North Las Vegas on Jan. 16 — its fourth in the Las Vegas Valley — and celebrated its grand opening with free food.
Legacy Traditional Schools was set to break ground on its first Nevada campus in North Las Vegas.
A local pizzeria will host a fundraiser Monday in honor of the North Las Vegas police detective who died after a Jan. 6 crash.
As many as 300 people are expected to show up Saturday at Pearson Community Center in North Las Vegas to participate in an immigrant rights resource fair slated to coincide with similar National Day of Action events in dozens of cities around the country.
The shooting happened about 2:15 p.m. Friday at an apartment complex on the 1800 block of West Gowan Road, near North Martin Luther King Boulevard.
North Las Vegas police said a 21-year-old woman was pronounced dead Friday morning outside a Donna Street apartment complex, and the death is being investigated as a homicide.