Until recently, if a shooting victim survived, Las Vegas police solved the case only about 3 times in 10. A specialized unit created specifically to fix that number is now closing in on nearly every case it takes. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s Violent Gun Crime Unit was created in October 2024 specifically to… Continue reading A Special Metro Unit Is Solving Non-Fatal Shootings at Triple the Old Rate
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Lake Powell Just Gained 10 Feet in Two Weeks. Lake Mead Didn’t Move.
Heavy rain across the Four Corners region sent a burst of water into Lake Powell this month, pulling the reservoir back from its lowest point on record. Lake Mead, downstream and Nevada’s actual water source, barely noticed. Lake Powell’s water level rose to roughly 3,529 feet above sea level by Oct. 25, climbing about 10… Continue reading Lake Powell Just Gained 10 Feet in Two Weeks. Lake Mead Didn’t Move.
Metro Says Violent Crime and Homicides Are Down Double Digits This Year. Here’s the Technology Driving It.
Las Vegas police are crediting a real-time intelligence platform and a network of new initiatives for a double-digit drop in homicides and violent crime this year. The sheriff says residents care less about the technology and more about the results. LVMPD’s mid-year statistical briefings this year showed a double-digit year-over-year decline in both homicide and… Continue reading Metro Says Violent Crime and Homicides Are Down Double Digits This Year. Here’s the Technology Driving It.
A Las Vegas Developer Just Opened Its 18th Affordable Senior Housing Project. Six More Are Coming.
Nevada’s biggest private apartment developer keeps building the same kind of project over and over: small, income-restricted units for seniors who can’t afford much else. The newest one just opened its doors — and the company says the need isn’t close to being met. Ovation Development Corp. and its affiliate, Heirloom by Ovation, held a… Continue reading A Las Vegas Developer Just Opened Its 18th Affordable Senior Housing Project. Six More Are Coming.
Las Vegas Buses Now Have AI Gun Detection and 300 Armed Guards. It Took a String of Shootings to Get There.
A preschooler was accidentally shot on an RTC bus. A passenger was shot in the east valley. Now Southern Nevada’s transit system runs AI-powered gun detection cameras and 300 armed security officers — and state law just gave them new power to act on what they see. The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada became… Continue reading Las Vegas Buses Now Have AI Gun Detection and 300 Armed Guards. It Took a String of Shootings to Get There.
The Sahara Opened on the Las Vegas Strip for $5 Million in 1952. Three Later Sales Alone Topped a Combined $575 Million.
Milton Prell opened a $5 million hotel on a lonely stretch of highway outside Las Vegas in 1952, the sixth resort on what would become the Strip. It has changed hands at least five times since, spent eight years without its own name, and three of those sales alone added up to a combined $575… Continue reading The Sahara Opened on the Las Vegas Strip for $5 Million in 1952. Three Later Sales Alone Topped a Combined $575 Million.
Nevada Created the Colorado River Commission in 1935 to Protect Its Water Rights. The Same Agency Is Suing the Federal Government Over Them Today.
For ninety-one years, the agency Nevada created to guard its stake in the Colorado River has done exactly that job, through a compact, a dam, a pipeline and now a federal lawsuit. The fight it filed this past August picks up an argument its predecessors started before Hoover Dam existed. Nevada Gov. Emmett D. Boyle… Continue reading Nevada Created the Colorado River Commission in 1935 to Protect Its Water Rights. The Same Agency Is Suing the Federal Government Over Them Today.
Southern Nevada’s Buses Could Lose 40% of Their Routes by 2028. Nobody Has Found the Money to Stop It.
Southern Nevada’s transit system needs $118.5 million a year just to keep running the service it already has. Riders are still finding out about it one transit center conversation at a time. The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada faces a projected $118.5 million annual funding gap, a shortfall the agency says could force cuts… Continue reading Southern Nevada’s Buses Could Lose 40% of Their Routes by 2028. Nobody Has Found the Money to Stop It.
Las Vegas Police Called Annabelle Plunkett a Policewoman by 1945. Metro’s Own Historian Still Can’t Confirm She Was the Department’s First.
For eighty years, the department now known as the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department could not say with confidence which woman on its force came first. The gap in the record says less about either woman’s career than about how little the department bothered to write down about women’s work at the time. Lauraine Painter… Continue reading Las Vegas Police Called Annabelle Plunkett a Policewoman by 1945. Metro’s Own Historian Still Can’t Confirm She Was the Department’s First.
Congress Named Yucca Mountain the Nation’s Only Nuclear Waste Site on Dec. 22, 1987. The Energy Department Picked Five Other States Instead on Aug. 4, 2026.
The federal government spent nearly four decades and more than $15 billion building the case that Yucca Mountain was the only place in America fit to hold the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. This summer, the Energy Department started building that case somewhere else. The Energy Department recommended the Yucca Mountain site, about 100 miles northwest… Continue reading Congress Named Yucca Mountain the Nation’s Only Nuclear Waste Site on Dec. 22, 1987. The Energy Department Picked Five Other States Instead on Aug. 4, 2026.
