City of North Las Vegas News

City of North Las Vegas Las Vegas Sun / Apr 27, 2021

RENO - Reno city officials said they have reached a tentative agreement to pay $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by residents whose homes in the community of Lemmon Valley were flooded north of town in 2017 after the city diverted excess storm water into a local lake basin.

City of North Las Vegas Las Vegas Sun / Apr 27, 2021

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian military police have been deployed to a city in northeastern Syria to halt clashes between Kurdish forces and Syrian government-allied fighters, a Russian officer said Tuesday. Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, the head of the Russian military's Reconciliation Center in Syria, said military police backed by helicopter gunships were sent to Qamishli near the border with Turkey.

City of North Las Vegas WXII12 Winston-Salem / Apr 27, 2021

Winston-Salem's drinking water has been ranked as one of the best in the nation, according to a recent study.The 2021 Best Cities for Water Quality study ranked the city's water quality second overall among the 200 largest cities in the country based on seven key factors.Click the video player above

City of North Las Vegas Screen Rant / Apr 27, 2021

Julia Trubkina is currently receiving criticism from 90 Day Fiancé fans. However, some viewers sympathized with her wanting to move to a big city. Julia Trubkina of might have angered many of her fans after her Tell-All disaster, but some still sympathize with the Russian dancer after the premiere of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?

City of North Las Vegas Las Vegas Sun / Apr 27, 2021

U.S. Census Bureau via AP The first batch of once-every-decade data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows a United States that is growing less quickly and but still seeing its population shift to the South and West. The data released Monday was relatively basic - containing national and state-level population figures and details of how they affect states' representation in Congress.

City of North Las Vegas Las Vegas Review-Journal / Apr 25, 2021

The Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy opened last summer in North Las Vegas as an emergency educational experiment to deal with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. But now the upstart academy - don't call it a school - has bigger aims. Its advocates want to give its blend of online and traditional face-to-face lessons a longer run to add to early evidence of its success.

City of North Las Vegas The New York Times / Apr 25, 2021

In a guest column for The Orlando Sentinel, a Disney fan said he was reconsidering his commitment to the park "because Disney cares more about politics than happy guests." A column complaining that Disney World's "wokeness" is ruining the fun "because Disney cares more about politics than happy guests" drew a sharp backlash online this week.

City of North Las Vegas Las Vegas Sun / Apr 25, 2021

Garima Vyas always wanted to live in a big city. She thought about New York, long the destination for 20-something strivers, but was wary of the cost and complicated subway lines. So Vyas picked another metropolis that's increasingly become young people's next-best option - Houston.

City of North Las Vegas Las Vegas Sun / Apr 25, 2021

LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) - During last summer's reckoning over racial injustice, decades-long debates about whether to offer reparations to the descendants of slaves in the U.S. finally seemed to be gaining momentum. State lawmakers in California, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Oregon - where Democrats control the legislatures - introduced or hoped to revive proposals to study the possibility.

City of North Las Vegas Las Vegas Sun / Apr 25, 2021

ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) - Eric Gala passed up an opportunity to get a coronavirus vaccine when shots became available in Michigan, and he admits not taking the virus seriously enough. Then he got sick with what he thought was the flu. He thought he would sweat it out and then feel back to normal.

City of North Las Vegas The Nevada Independent / Apr 25, 2021

From the infamous waves of demolitions of the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino, the first racially integrated casino in Las Vegas, to the quiet removal of less flashy community landmarks, seeing buildings that hold historic and emotional value to residents get reduced to dust have left many with feelings of resentment and skepticism toward the city.

City of North Las Vegas Las Vegas Sun / Apr 25, 2021

Virus 'swallowing' people in India; crematoriums overwhelmed NEW DELHI (AP) - With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections.

City of North Las Vegas Carson Now / Apr 25, 2021

A 72-year-old transient woman was arrested at a local funeral home for possession of an ID without the consent of the owner Thursday afternoon. According to the report, Victoria Lynn Mynear was arrested on the felony charge after deputies responded to the funeral home for a report of a woman sleeping on the grass outside.

City of North Las Vegas FOX5 Las Vegas / Apr 24, 2021

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- A fresh cut for picture day. Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy partnered with Nevada's First barber School, The Art of Barbers School and Expertise Cosmetology to provide haircuts at no cost on Friday. The city of North Las Vegas said the goal was to help celebrate the first instructional year with the educational rite of passage.