Jennifer Schurict, spokeswoman for NV Energy, said the outage started at 2 a.m. as heavy winds rolled through the region.
Glenn Puit
Glenn Puit has worked as a journalist for 27 years. He is a winner of the national Sigma Delta Chi award for public service journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has worked at newspapers in Nevada, Oklahoma, Michigan, New York and Kentucky.
Authorities have charged a Las Vegas man with murder in a May fatal shooting in east Las Vegas.
A man accused of robbing a Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas casino cage early Tuesday gave a teller a note threatening violence while demanding $10,000 in casino chips.
The Texas man was in a 45 mph zone when the vehicle struck and killed the moped rider in the southwest Las Vegas Valley late Saturday, police said.
A North Las Vegas man has been charged with bringing a girl to the Las Vegas Strip to work as a prostitute, Las Vegas police said.
Authorities on Tuesday identified a canyoneer who died from a Saturday fall at Zion National Park as Cassidy Brown, 26, of Springdale, Utah.
Las Vegas police say a suspect is in custody in connection with the attempt to rob a casino cage of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on the Strip early Tuesday.
A 2-year-old boy was killed Monday night when he ran into the path of a sport utility vehicle at an east Las Vegas park, police said.
A Las Vegas man is accused of carrying out a debit card scheme to fund his role as a “sugar daddy” who promised to pay women’s bills, police said.
A 34-year-old man is accused of attempting to lure a child for sex in Henderson by approaching a girl at a restaurant and taking her skateboard.
A Las Vegas man sought in the fatal shooting of his 40-year-old girlfriend in April has been arrested on a murder warrant, Clark County jail records show.
A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and killed Sunday night in the southeastern Las Vegas Valley.
The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash in the northeast Las Vegas Valley late Saturday.
The North Las Vegas Fire Department said it received multiple calls at about 2:35 p.m. of a fire on the tracks on a bridge near Losee Road.
About 50 people marched through downtown Las Vegas on Saturday night to raise awareness about the fatal shooting of Jorge Gomez a little more than a year ago by police.