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CARSON CITY / LAS VEGAS, NV — In a major executive intervention aimed at shielding public school classrooms from abrupt mid-year budget cuts, Governor Joe Lombardo signed an emergency regulation allowing school districts confronting steep enrollment drops to draw state funding based on earlier legislative projections rather than actual lower...

LAS VEGAS, NV — A joint federal and local law enforcement operation has resulted in federal drug trafficking and weapons charges against a Las Vegas woman accused of receiving a bulk shipment of fentanyl through the postal system, authorities announced Friday. The criminal complaint—unsealed in the U.S. District Court for...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Las Vegas Metropolitan Police homicide detectives have apprehended and charged a 21-year-old man in connection with a fatal Monday night shooting in a commercial parking lot situated blocks east of the Las Vegas Strip. The suspect, identified by authorities as Andrew Avalos, 21, was taken into...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Tensions over urban density and neighborhood preservation erupted inside Las Vegas City Hall, where more than 75 local residents gathered for a contentious town hall meeting challenging a proposal to build dozens of high-end homes inside an established historic enclave. The meeting—first reported by 8 News...

LAS VEGAS, NV — A 25-year-old Las Vegas woman was led from a courtroom in handcuffs after being sentenced to prison for supplying counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl that caused the fatal overdose of a Utah tourist inside a Caesars Palace hotel room. District Judge Michelle Leavitt sentenced Heidi Warner,...

LAS VEGAS, NV — A firearm was safely confiscated from a student at a Las Vegas elementary school after alert staff members intervened before classes were impacted, school officials confirmed in a parent notification. The incident—reported Thursday, September 24, 2026, by the Las Vegas Review-Journal—prompted an immediate response from the...

BATTLE MOUNTAIN / CARSON CITY, NV — Vancouver- and Reno-based explorer Nevada Sunrise Metals Corp. has outlined extensive, high-priority gold and multi-element geochemical anomalies at its Fivemile Gold Project, positioning the greenfield property as a promising target directly along Nevada’s world-class Cortez gold corridor. The analytical findings—compiled following the completion...