North Las Vegas bore witness to a spectacle of speed and misfortune Sunday afternoon, the likes of which would make even the most devil-may-care daredevil pause for reflection. At precisely half past noon, the Nevada State Police Highway Patrol responded to a calamity involving two Nissan Altimas, whose fateful meeting upon the Cheyenne Avenue overpass…

Just in Case Anyone Forgot In an act of legislative déjà vu, the Nye County Commission once again took to the grand stage of local government to remind the world—or at least the fine citizens of Nye County—that it has no intention of rolling out the welcome mat for illegal aliens. Resolution No. 2025-08, retrieved…

Virginia City’s softball squad will defend their home diamond for the first time this season when they take on the Wells Leopards at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. If history indicates, spectators should prepare for a slugfest that will keep the scorekeeper’s pencil busy. The Muckers enter the contest smarting from a 23-13 defeat at the…

The desert was in his blood–the kind of man who didn’t just walk the land but belonged to it. Kenny Veach had a love for the Mojave that most men would never understand. Where others saw miles of empty sand and scrub brush, he saw a living, breathing world, alive with movement and history, where…

A helicopter, perhaps suffering from an excess of enthusiasm or a deficiency of common sense, attempted to perch upon an unsuspecting automobile at the North Las Vegas Airport on Sunday night, resulting in what the authorities are delicately referring to as a “crash.” The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ever diligent in its post-mortems of mechanical…

Congresswoman Lee Rides to the Rescue It has long been observed that Nevada is a land of great expanses and small mercies, and nowhere is this more evident than in its physician supply, where a man is more likely to meet a coyote on the road than a doctor in an office. Congresswoman Susie Lee,…

It is a melancholy truth that the world of rogues, and now and then, one sees fit to trouble the good people of Dayton. Such was the case on the afternoon of March 10, when a young boy, minding his affairs near Sutro Elementary, was approached by a scoundrel in a most dubious conveyance. The…

A Collision Most Inhospitable The Clark County Coroner’s Office has since affixed names to the departed, identifying them as Angel Estrada-Esquibia, aged 30, and Jose Rodriguez Estrada, aged 70. The precise particulars of their untimely exit remain under deliberation, but one can hazard a guess that velocity and physics played no small role. The calamity…

Late Monday night, under the moon that makes a man reflect on his choices—assuming he has time for such reflection—a lone pedestrian made the unfortunate decision to engage in a contest of wills with a locomotive near the corner of Wyoming and Industrial. The train, being what it is—large and impatient, and utterly indifferent to…

The bus hummed like a caged animal, sniffing along the rain-slicked road, headlights licking the blacktop. A young woman clutched the rail near the front, swaying with the mechanical pulse of the beast beneath her feet. “One return,” she said, her voice slicing through the lull of rubber on wet asphalt. I glanced at her—twenty-something,…