In Washington, even tragedy rarely stays in one lane for long. It becomes a security briefing, a policy argument, and, soon enough, a piece of legislation. That pattern held again after a shooting Saturday night during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, an event attended by President Trump and a room full of journalists, officials,…

At 2:33 a.m., when the roads are mostly empty and decisions travel faster, Las Vegas police tried to pull over a stolen car that wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place. According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the driver did not stop. The attempt turned into a pursuit, the kind that…

Policy arrives in Washington with a broad brush, and a new bill aims to redefine the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, alongside Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota, has introduced the Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections for Separated Children Act, called (with legislative optimism) the HELP Act. Its…

School dismissal is usually a loud kind of ending, with buses and the shuffle of children moving from one part of the day to another. At Dr. Claude G. Perkins Elementary, that transition is under investigation after a 65-year-old specialized programs teacher assistant, Lisa Harris, was arrested following an incident reported on Monday, April 27.…

It began, as these things often do now, with an email. Somewhere in the middle of an ordinary day, when people were working, shopping, and not thinking about worst-case scenarios, a message came to the police. It allegedly came from Christopher Reeves, 48, and said he intended to “shoot as many people as I can”…

There are school closures that come with noise, board meetings, protests, long arguments about budgets, and lines on maps. And then there is Goodsprings Elementary, where a decision arrived almost as an observation. One student has enrolled for next year. That number, by itself, is hard to build a school around. So, the Clark County…

It arrives the way many modern problems do: electronically, and with just enough official language to make a person hesitate before deleting it. A “Final Notice—Court Enforcement Action,” it calls itself. It claims to come from the State of Nevada. In some versions, it even invokes the “Justice Court of the County of Clark Traffic…

It was late Saturday when Officer Alex Pena rolled into a section of Las Vegas that looks more like an afterthought than a destination, Harmon Avenue and Arville Street, where washes cut through the desert and tunnels collect what people leave behind. The area came with “no trespassing” signs. That is not unusual. What happened…

The call came at 3 a.m., the hour when voices sound different and explanations come out unfinished. A man told a 911 operator his wife was hurt and needed medical help. The address led responders to a home on Esmeralda Avenue, near Sahara and Arville, an ordinary block at an hour when most of it…

On a matter as quiet as a ballot and as loud as a classroom, Nevada’s largest teachers union has made its choice. The Nevada State Education Association, which represents public school teachers across the state, is endorsing Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar for re-election. The office he holds does not set curriculum or run schools,…