Ryan Tisminezky

4 weeks ago | 8newsnow.com | Ryan Tisminezky |Stephanie Overton

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A southern portion of the I-15 is experiencing lane closures as part of a project to widen the interstate from Warm Springs Road to Sloan Road. Nevada Department of Transportation Public Information Officer Kelsey McFarland says up to 5,000 drivers make their way through the corridor each hour. The list of closures can be found at this link.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ryan Tisminezky

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Henderson officials broke ground on a nearly three-year project to widen I-215 on Wednesday morning. The plan is to add two lanes in each direction of the interstate from Pecos Road to Stephanie Street. The stretch of I-215 is starting to show its age. Henderson City Engineer Steven Conner said there has been a 25 percent population growth in the area since the early days of the freeway. “The efficiency of the 215 has [gone] down, over the years,” Conner said.

1 month ago | 8newsnow.com | Ryan Tisminezky |Madina Ansary

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Veterans and families gathered at a Palm Mortuary in Henderson to honor fallen military personnel for Memorial Day weekend. Langston Higbee, the mortuary and cemetery general manager, is participating for the eighth consecutive year. “We always take the extra steps to make sure they are honored,” Higbee said. “We mark all the graves of the veterans in our cemetery. We have over 500 veterans who have been laid to rest here.”Marking their graves, the boys and girls of the Scouts.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ryan Tisminezky

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Veterans and families gathered at a Palm Mortuary in Henderson to honor fallen military personnel for Memorial Day weekend. Langston Higbee, the mortuary and cemetery general manager, is participating for the eighth consecutive year. “We always take the extra steps to make sure they are honored,” Higbee said. “We mark all the graves of the veterans in our cemetery.

1 month ago | 8newsnow.com | Ryan Tisminezky |Stephanie Overton

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — UNLV’s Immigration Clinic said ICE arrested six asylum seekers looking for ways to legally stay in the United States. Attorneys with the clinic said the federal government may be seeking ways to rapidly deport the men. “We are concerned that the government will try to use something called expedited removal to deport them without ever going back before a judge,” UNLV Immigration Clinic Director Michael Kagan said.