In wide-ranging interviews with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Ward and Walter discussed the process of finding their gender identities and the different paths they took to express who they truly are.
Blake Apgar
Blake Apgar joined the Review-Journal as a general assignment reporter in January 2017 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. He interned at the Review-Journal in the summer of 2016, and now covers North Las Vegas and Henderson government. He was raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Enough visitors are expected to pour into Las Vegas for New Year’s celebrations to temporarily move the city and surrounding communities up five spots on U.S. metropolitan population rankings.
Free Christmas tree recycling is available at more than 30 Las Vegas Valley locations beginning Thursday and continuing through mid-January.
Incidents of hostility, intimidation and harassment preceded the departure of former Henderson Police Chief Patrick Moers and former Deputy Chief Bobby Long, according to an internal investigation obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A longtime businessman announced Tuesday that he will challenge incumbent Richard Cherchio to represent Ward 4 on the North Las Vegas City Council.
Henderson is offering several locations to recycle Christmas trees in the weeks after the holiday.
A Las Vegas woman’s frantic weekslong search for her daughter ended Monday, nearly 2,000 miles from home.
The Henderson City Council took its first vote on a development agreement for the Raiders headquarters and practice facility. The item was unanimously approved but will need to be voted on again at a later meeting.
New North Las Vegas Police Chief Pamela Ojeda said her department is going to combat a spate of gun violence in the city with community outreach and increased resources on the ground.
Watson came to Henderson from Arlington, Texas, as an outsider and a reformer, and she is using her lack of roots in the Las Vegas Valley to her advantage as she pushes for change.
Two Henderson police unions have accused department leaders of trying to bust the labor groups by threatening and discriminating against the organizations’ members.
Las Vegas police investigated a suspicious package Monday in the eastern valley, but by 1 p.m. they said the situation had been resolved.
Sunday’s road win against the Edmonton Oilers means free Buffalo Wild Wings on Monday in Golden Knights territory.
A woman will lead the North Las Vegas Police Department for the first time in the agency’s history.
North Las Vegas will spend the next two years replacing millions of dollars worth of water meters, and Randy DeVaul could not be happier about it.