North Las Vegas News

At first glance, the approval of the Nye County 2012-13 fiscal year budget May 21 by county commissioners seemed to represent the sacrifice of employee unions to balance the budget.

As temperatures are expected to reach or exceed 104 degrees on Friday, June 1, additional cooling stations will be open to the public in an effort to move the homeless and other individuals out of the heat and keep them hydrated.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. An injury accident Thursday afternoon involving a tractor-trailer and an SUV has caused road closures in North Las Vegas.

North Las Vegas, NV -- Safety improvements have been finished at a North Las Vegas intersection where three young girls were hit by a car last fall.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Mojave High School seniors Darryl Gorden and Korizza Thomas answer critical financial questions on a web-based program aimed towards helping them make better financial decisions, Wednesday May 30, 2012.

He moved to the state in 1988. Also, the name of District 35 candidate James Healey, a Democrat, was misspelled.

North Las Vegas, NV -- The North Las Vegas Fire Department responded to a fire in an electrical box outside of a home at about 2:10 a.m. this morning.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. As chairman of the Metro Police Fiscal Affairs Committee, businessman Jim Hammer has earned a reputation as someone who is not a rubber-stamper. He questions motives for budget increases and has proven far from a Metro brass pushover.

"What you've got in Nevada is a new wrinkle on this," said Chris Hoene, director of research at the National League of Cities.

North Las Vegas, NV - The boxing community has come together to support one of their own after losing a wife and daughter to a violent crime.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. An unusually cool start to Memorial Day weekend will quickly give way to sunny skies and temperatures in the 90s on Monday.

Several branches of the Henderson Libraries District's six locations face closure due to a $3 million annual budget deficit created by the recent drastic drop in assessed property values.------- Courtesy of Henderson Libraries District suffers 30 percent loss in annual revenue due to decline in local property values as result of 5-year economic ... (more)

Wrong-way crashes on Las Vegas highways have killed three people since Easter - a trend troubling authorities already vexed by increased traffic fatalities this year.

New mothers in Sunrise Children's Hospital's maternal/infant unit recently received gift baskets filled with safety items and information courtesy of Safe Kids Clark County.

We'll know soon if public employee unions are playing chicken with the lives of hundreds of their members, or if managers for the Clark County School District and North Las Vegas have been playing a game of brinkmanship.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Kenneth Reid waits for jury selection to begin at the Regional Justice Center Monday April 16, 2012.

Even after two deaths in this spot on the Virgin River, people still play in the raging water.

Corinne Sidney, one of the few Las Vegans left from Frank Sinatra's inner circle, was on the telephone to offer some points of historical clarification.

A man killed Sunday morning after a head-on crash was identified on Tuesday.Ricardo Martinez, 43, of North Las Vegas, died after his delivery truck was struck head-on by a 2009 GMC Yukon Denali at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane.Las Vegas police said Martinez was stopped at a light when the Denali collided with his truck about 3:30 ... (more)

North Las Vegas, NV - It's hard to look at pictures of Mia Decker - the little girl, so full of life - killed at the age of six.