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LAS VEGAS, NV — An unusually stubborn late-summer high-pressure system has prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) Las Vegas to issue an Extreme Heat Warning across Southern Nevada, with afternoon temperatures projected to climb up to 110°F across the metropolitan valley floor. The advisory remains in effect through 8:00 PM...

LAS VEGAS, NV — In a major expansion of commercial autonomous transit in Southern Nevada, Amazon subsidiary Zoox has officially launched paid driverless robotaxi service at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS). The move introduces the nation’s first purpose-built commercial robotaxi service to one of the busiest passenger aviation hubs in...

LAS VEGAS, NV — In the largest federal land transaction executed in the Las Vegas Valley in more than two decades, the City of Las Vegas and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have finalized the conveyance of roughly 940 acres of upper northwest desert to private developers for $94...

GERLACH, NV — The Burning Man Project and the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office have confirmed that two attendees died during the 40th edition of the annual gathering in the Black Rock Desert, which concluded its weeklong run on Monday, September 7. More than 70,000 participants traveled to the temporary desert...

CARSON CITY, NV — Former Nevada State Senator Ann O’Connell, a trailblazing conservative legislator whose tenacity, fiscal discipline, and adherence to principle shaped Silver State public policy across two decades, has died at the age of 92. O’Connell, who represented Southern Nevada in the upper house of the Nevada Legislature...

LAS VEGAS, NV — A 29-year-old man is in custody facing multiple counts of open murder after walking into a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department substation and confessing to fatally shooting his girlfriend and her two children inside a west valley apartment. The suspect, identified by police as Juan Orona,...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Homicide Section, working alongside the multi-agency Criminal Apprehension Team (CAT), have arrested 18-year-old Browdy Lee Shaffer in connection with the fatal shooting of a juvenile male inside an east valley apartment. Shaffer was taken into custody and...