Every year, school children guess when the desert tortoise will emerge from his burrow, marking the beginning of spring.
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The NV Energy tortoise mascot Wattson emerged from his burrow at the company’s headquarters.
A motorcyclist was killed Tuesday morning after a crash with a pickup truck in North Las Vegas.
Winds, cooler temps and possibly some rain on Friday is in the Las Vegas forecast for the week, says the National Weather Service.
Las Vegas locals who grew up in the ’90s and 2000s might remember the Lied Discovery Children’s Museum and Las Vegas Library building along Las Vegas Boulevard.
Congregation Ner Tamid in Henderson hosted a Passover Seder attended by about 250 people.
Nevada officials say the new visitor center at Valley of Fire State Park will feature “state of the art” exhibits that explain the park’s cultural and geological history.
The school tallied 35,229 words for middle schools, those with enrollments of 500 to 1,000 students. The total ranked them seventh among all schools in the country.
Las Vegas police said the fatal crash happened earlier in April when the bicyclist crossed into the path of a Honda Pilot.
Brightline West and federal, state and local officials broke ground on the long-discussed high-speed rail system linking Las Vegas and Southern California.
Stop DUI’s annual Heroes and Handcuffs ceremony recognized eight officers who made a combined 588 DUI arrests. The families of fallen troopers Michael Abbate and Alberto Felix were also there.
The American Red Cross of Southern Nevada on Sunday assisted 15 people displaced by an apartment building fire south of downtown Las Vegas.
A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run Saturday night on Main Street near Foremaster Lane.
Las Vegas police were involved in two separate vehicle pursuits Saturday, one of which left officers with seemingly minor injuries, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Ten former elementary school students received four-year college scholarships as promised in 2015 by a non-profit group.