Author: Ken Ritter
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TSA unveils passenger self-screening lanes at Vegas airport as ‘a step into the future’
Federal airport security officials have unveiled a passenger self-screening checkpoint at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas that they plan to test this year before beginning to use it around the country
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Nevada fake electors won’t stand trial until January 2025 under judge’s new schedule
Six Republicans accused of falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of Nevada’s 2020 presidential election will not stand trial until next January
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A massive blizzard howls in the Sierra Nevada. High winds and heavy snow close roads and ski resorts
A powerful blizzard that a meteorologist termed “as bad as it gets” is howling in the Sierra Nevada mountains
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Usher’s Super Bowl encore? Marrying Jenn Goicoechea at Las Vegas chapel
Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea got married in Las Vegas just hours after the R&B superstar’s headline appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show
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Nevada jury awards $130M to 5 people who had liver damage after drinking bottled water
A Nevada jury has awarded about $130 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by five people who suffered liver damage before bottled water marketed by a Las Vegas-based company was recalled in 2021
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US Homeland chief joins officials in Vegas declaring Super Bowl a ‘no drone zone’
While police were pursuing and apprehending a man who climbed a Las Vegas Strip landmark, NFL, local and federal officials met the media to outline hardened security measures and declare the Super Bowl a “no drone zone.”
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Las Vegas teachers’ group sues to stop tax money from funding A’s stadium plan
A political group backed by teachers is suing to keep taxpayer money from being spent on a baseball stadium to relocate the Oakland Athletics to the Las Vegas Strip
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In Colorado River talks, still no agreement about water cuts
BOULDER CITY, Nev. • The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday of competing plans for how seven Western states and tribes reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River should cut their use but declined to publicly take a side on the best option. On one side is California and some tribes along…
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Aurora dentist accused of setting fire to send clean energy message
LAS VEGAS • A Colorado dentist accused of setting a fire that damaged a transformer at a solar power array outside Las Vegas last week told investigators he wanted to send a message supporting clean energy and denied his intention was sabotage, police said in an arrest report obtained Wednesday. “I burned it,” Mohammed Reza…
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Body near Lake Mead swimming site 3rd to surface since May
LAS VEGAS • Another body has surfaced at Lake Mead — this time in a swimming area where water levels have dropped as the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam recedes because of drought and climate change. The National Park Service did not say in a statement how long officials think the corpse was submerged…