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In his final weeks leading the Clark County School District, Superintendent Jesus Jara gave new contracts to his top administrators with added benefits that could cost taxpayers $3 million, a Review-Journal analysis of public records found. Two elected School Board trustees said they learned of the pricey perks only after...

The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a motorcyclist killed in a Las Vegas crash involving a Peterbuilt semitractor-trailer as 50-year-old Demetrius Davidson. A coroner’s office report said Davidson died from blunt force injuries. Davidson was driving his 2020 Kawasaki Z900 motorcycle and collided with the 2017 Peterbilt...

So the Clark County School District has had 12 superintendents in its history, and when you look at a group photo, something stands out: They are all male. This would happen by chance 1 out of 4,096 times. Hmm, any ideas for a successor?

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Thousands of customers lost power around the Las Vegas Valley Saturday night amid rolling storms. According to the NV Energy outage map, over 18,000 customers were without power in Clark County around 8 p.m. Around Summerlin Parkway and Rainbow, approximately 2,200 customers were without power....

The Bureau of Land Management announced this week that it is moving ahead with a plan to sell 20 acres of national public land near Las Vegas to the Clark County Department of Social Services for an affordable housing development. The proposal is the first under an agreement between the...

HANCOCK COUNTY — John D. Jessup, the Hancock County Commissioner accused of sexual assault against a woman during an incident in January, was back in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday morning for a preliminary hearing on the charge he faces. Jessup, 49, Shirley, has been in the Clark County...

The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man shot to death July 12 in a northwest Las Vegas residence as 45-year old Christopher Lippincott. A coroner’s office report said Lippincott died of multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead on the scene of the shooting in the 4800 block of North Tioga Way, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson said in a news briefing Friday morning.

Authorities have released the identity of a man killed by a ranger at Valley of Fire State Park last week. Rafael Rodriguez-Aguayo, 38, of Las Vegas, died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to Stephanie Wheatley, a spokesperson for the Clark County coroner’s office. The manner of death was listed as homicide.

While visiting Reno, I noticed that Reno’s beltway, state Route 659, (similar to our Interstate 215) was named McCarran Boulevard. It got me thinking: Why didn’t Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom and his band of sheep demand that Washoe County rename McCarran Boulevard after Harry Reid?. Now Mr....

Workforce Connections, Southern Nevada’s local workforce development board, welcomes Clark County School District (CCSD) Interim Superintendent Dr. Brenda Larsen-Mitchell as a new board member. Larsen-Mitchell was appointed to a two-year term on the Workforce Connections (WC) Board. Her appointment was approved by the WC Local Elected Officials Consortium during...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Mobile showers are being dispatched across Las Vegas to help the unhoused cleanup and cool off during this extreme heat wave. Clark County partnered with organization “Clean the World” to provide three sites a week for the unhoused to take a shower and get free toiletries. The demand has grown in the Valley’s housing crisis, which has also seen a rise in the number of people who are homeless.

Someone is turning up the thermostat outside, so we may need to turn it down inside! It's going to warm by a few degrees for your Tuesday and Las Vegas Valley is going to trend warmer than normal with the metropolitan area reaching a high of around 110 degrees. The UV Index will reach the extreme level today during peak heat, so make sure to grab that sunscreen!

Monsoon clouds in the southwest valley and localized flash flooding further southwest of Las Vegas were signs of perhaps a wet afternoon in Las Vegas. Shortly before noon, heavy rrain in rural areas east of Interstate 15 near Jean prompted a National Weathder Service flash flood warning for the area.

LAS VEGAS — Clark County should be preparing for declining birth rates and decreased immigration now, as the nation’s population is expected to peak in less than 60 years. “We’re projecting that the population is going to peak in 2080 as a result of net fertility and immigration,” U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos said in a recent interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “So when you put those two together, we are going to grow until 2080 and then it is going to decline through to the end of our projections in 2100.”

The DonorsChoose Grant Program dedicates $10 million to provide resources to Nevada classrooms with funding made possible by Senate Bill 339. Qualifying projects can receive up to $500 in supplies.

Thanks to this weekend's active weather, temperatures have cooled back to seasonable levels in Las Vegas Monday. Highs in the valley will trend right around average from 105-107 degrees. We'll see partly cloudy skies with some virga (rain that evaporates before it hits the ground) this morning. This afternoon around 1PM, showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected to develop in Clark County, and dissipate around 5PM. We've got a 20-30% chance of rain in Las Vegas. Winds will also pick up around this time to 5-10mph.