North Las Vegas

noun

1. a city in S Nevada.

Example Sentences

Then Schiff was off to a campaign event in north Las Vegas where he met Mexican charro horsemen and appeared with a grandson of César Chávez; a delegates meeting of the powerful Western States Carpenters, where he dropped three f-bombs during his speech; a late vegan lunch with the actor Bryan Cranston, who was volunteering for Rosen; a stop at a phone bank for Rep. Susie Lee of southern Nevada; and a flight home that landed in Burbank at 8:40 p.m.

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Born and raised in North Las Vegas, Cristian, a Latino ex-car-mechanic with a cross around his neck, summarized his recent life and times for me in a smiley, “so it goes” tone: A few years ago, the pandemic lockdowns shut down the Valley and completely cleared the cities of their crowds, he said—but business was coming back, the population was growing again, and prices were going up.

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Last year, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended a requirement for a speed limit alert technology in all new cars after an investigation into a collision in North Las Vegas that left nine dead.

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The officers were responding to a Tuesday afternoon 911 call about shots being fired at the apartment complex north of downtown North Las Vegas, police said in a news release.

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Alvin Moscow, who wrote a best-selling account of the sinking of the ocean liner Andrea Doria in 1956, then collaborated on the memoirs of several public figures, including Richard M. Nixon soon after he lost the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy, died on Feb. 6 in North Las Vegas, Nev. He was 98.

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