LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - The Las Vegas real estate market continues to set records. The average home sale price last month was $420,000.

Not only do home prices continue to rise here in the valley, but the interest in the luxury market is also booming.

Even homes costing $3 million don’t stay on the market long.

Industry experts say Nevada is becoming more appealing to out-of-state buyers.

Jared Bybee’s family was looking for a change of pace and recently moved from California to a multimillion-dollar home.

“The city is just so full of growth and it was enticing,” Bybee said. “You do have to take into account cost of living, state income tax.”

Many of the people finding Las Vegas appealing are showing up in town with a lot of cash.

“In the last 30 days alone we have sold 121 properties in the $1 to $3 million range,” realtor Tam Gonzalez said... Read More

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- A Las Vegas man was sentenced Wednesday to six and a half years in prison for stealing credit and debit card account numbers, and he could get another 20 years on child pornography charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Shaun Patrick Anderson, 39, was caught in an FBI investigation after spending more than $500,000 on gift certificates and tickets to Las Vegas Strip shows using stolen account numbers. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 1, 2019.

He was sentenced by District Judge Andrew P. Gordon.

He will have to repay the money according to terms of his sentence, but he's got even bigger problems after investigators found nearly 1,300 files of child pornography on various electronic devices during the course of the investigation.

Anderson has pleaded guilty in October, 2021, to possession of child pornography -- which could carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine... Read More

INDIAN SPRINGS, Nev. (KLAS) -- A group of about two dozen inmates were involved in a disturbance at about 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Southern Desert Correctional Center, several sources confirmed to the I-Team.

The facility is next to the High Desert State Prison and can house 2,149 inmates.

The group, described as being about 25 inmates, set two fires in one unit around noon after being told they had to report back to their cells.

"The inmates refused to enter their cells or follow orders," a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections told 8 News Now.

She added the fires were extinguished before “causing significant damage" and that was no major damage or injuries.

About 15 inmates were taken to other "higher security" prisons as a result of the incident.

Several area law enforcement agencies and fire departments were called to the complex, but their services were not needed, she said... Read More