LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Airbnb hosts across the Las Vegas Valley are taking in evacuees from across Southern California. Homeowners and “hosts” have signed up with the company to assist people searching for shelter, as hundreds of thousands of people in the Los Angeles area are under an evacuation or warning, Wednesday night.

With 2025 now upon us, a plethora of road projects in various stages of progress are underway in the Las Vegas Valley. From the ongoing, massive $385 million Interstate 15-Tropicana Avenue project to the yearslong phased upgrade of the Strip to the addition of signs giving a well-traveled freeway a new name,

Las Vegas Metro police are investigating a homicide in the east part of the valley. It happened on Friday shortly before 5 p.m. at Blanton and Sack drives near east Tropicana Avenue and Nellis Boulevard.

Windy conditions are forecast to start around daybreak Tuesday with gusts expected to exceed 30 mph across a three-state region — and are likely to top 60 mph in the Summerlin area, according to the National Weather Service.

Las Vegas is a betting town and the odds are in favor the valley, especially the western portion, will get blasted Tuesday and Wednesday with wind gusts of more than 60 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.

The Bureau of Land Management plans to auction off nearly 90 acres littered throughout the Las Vegas Valley in March. The 11 parcels total 89.35 acres and will be sold at “fair market value” in an online auction starting at 8 a.m. on March 18, according to a notice posted by the BLM on the Federal Register.