Underground trains are incredibly susceptible to flooding from climate-driven extreme rain and sea level rise. Cities around the world are racing to adapt their transit systems.
Passengers who get on the train before the morning rush hour will also qualify for free tempura. The offer is an attempt to reduce overcrowding on the city's most jam-packed route.
More than two dozen violent gang members are now behind bars following an investigation that started in March and involved numerous law enforcement agencies.
LA's public transit system says it is the first in the U.S. to buy passive millimeter wave scanners for Metro stations. The Transportation Security Administration has been doing tests for a year.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lawyer says a 31-year-old Las Vegas man jailed on felony driving under the influence charges had an epileptic seizure before his SUV struck and killed three pedestrians and crashed into several vehicles last week.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police now say a second Las Vegas patrol officer was struck by a bullet but wasn't hurt in a shootout that wounded one officer and left a man in a pickup truck dead during a cellphone theft investigation.
After reviewing 159 sex trafficking cases that were investigated by Las Vegas police in 2014, researchers found that nearly three quarters of them did not result in prosecution.
A Nevada lawmaker wants blood test to become the standard way to test for stoned drivers in Nevada.
Assemblyman Steve Yeager, D-Las Vegas, sponsored a bill last week that would eliminate urine tests as a way to test drivers suspected of driving under the influence of marijuana.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say the 166 homicide cases they handled in 2016 far outpaced 2015, and came in just under a 25-year high set 20 years ago.
The previous high was 167 in 1996, and the department handled 139 homicides in 2015.
Metro's trains were shut down after a fire near one of the system's tunnels on Monday. General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said deteriorating cables were found and will be fixed.
Starting at midnight Tuesday, the D.C. Metro rail system will shut down for 29 hours while authorities investigate potential dangers related to a cable fire on Monday.
The system was considered a triumph by the Soviets, but was built by the same ruthless means that helped cause a famine, which killed millions in the 1930s.
