CCSD Is Tearing Down a 52-Year-Old High School. The New One Will Hold Fewer Students.

Chaparral High School has served the same patch of east Las Vegas since 1973. Its replacement is already approved — and it’s being built smaller, on purpose, for a district that no longer has the students to fill the old one. The Clark County School District’s Attendance Zone Advisory Commission began reviewing a proposal this… Continue reading CCSD Is Tearing Down a 52-Year-Old High School. The New One Will Hold Fewer Students.

A Woman Spent Hours Shouting at Early Voters. The ACLU Says That Crossed a Line the First Amendment Doesn’t Protect.

A woman stood outside a Las Vegas polling site for hours, shouting at voters as they walked in and out. Police got involved. The ACLU says the episode raises a question Nevada election law doesn’t fully settle: where protest ends and voter intimidation begins. Las Vegas police responded to the Desert Breeze Community Center on… Continue reading A Woman Spent Hours Shouting at Early Voters. The ACLU Says That Crossed a Line the First Amendment Doesn’t Protect.

A Special Metro Unit Is Solving Non-Fatal Shootings at Triple the Old Rate

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

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.