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Friday, June 5 

Your Daily Guide

🎉 It's a big weekend!

The Knights return home to T-Mobile Arena for Game Three of the Stanley Cup Finals tomorrow.

It’s also the first of eight straight Saturday nights of fireworks to celebrate the U.S.A. 🇺🇲 High Steaks Vegas has a viewing party (with guest bartender Adam Rains of Golden Tiki) at the top of the Rio. You can also catch the rocket's red glare from the rooftop deck of Grand Prix Plaza.

What Las Vegas's Talking About

🚨 Three Friends Walk Into a Bar …

And get into a fight over who should drive home, leading to shots fired and one person dead. It happened outside The Dive Bar, a somewhat historic place once known as a mob hangout near Maryland and Flamingo. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]

🔥 Airport Garage Fire Under Investigation

An investigation is underway to determine the cause of a six-car fire inside the Terminal 1 parking garage at Harry Reid International Airport. A potential clue: at least one of the cars was electric. [KTNV]

🫨 Did You Feel It?

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded seven miles west of Summerlin in Red Rock Canyon yesterday afternoon — downgraded from an original report of 4.1. I noticed a ripple in my Manhattan 🥃 [KSNV]

🏁 It’s Confirmed

Formula 1 will remain a part of Las Vegas through at least 2037. [ESPN]

🐶 An example to follow?

Henderson Animal Protection Services has saved more than 2,600 animals this year so far, exceeding industry benchmarks with a 91% live release rate. [KVVU]

  • City Cast Las Vegas looks at the numbers to see what other shelters can learn from Henderson’s success in today’s news roundup, which also has the latest on NV Energy complaints and how a small boutique hotel is finding a new life in Downtown Vegas. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
PODCAST

Can Las Vegas Fix its Overcrowded Pet Shelters? Plus, Anger Towards NV Energy and Saving Downtown History

Your Las Vegas News Quiz

The Cowabunga Bay water park.

Making the grade. (Cowabunga Bay)

It’s Friday, which means the City Cast Las Vegas news quiz is back to test how well you pay attention to this newsletter 😀 As always, the questions are based on stories featured in the newsletter over the past week.

Here’s the first question to get you started:

Why did the Cowabunga Bay water park cancel the final two days of its "Great Grades Days" promotion?

A. Unruly teenage behavior

B. Evidence of a contaminant in the water

C. Evidence of students faking their grades to get free admission

D. Unexpectedly hot weather that was considered unsafe

Take the News Quiz!

What To Do

Friday, June 5

Saturday, June 6

More Las Vegas Events

🚰 City Cast Las Vegas host Jesse Merrick joins the latest episode of Your City Could Be Better with City Cast CEO David Plotz.

The two discuss how a tourist-heavy desert city like Las Vegas sustains itself with water recycling and preservation. Are we setting an example for other parts of the country to follow?

Look for the episode on your usual podcast feed on Sunday 👍

— Rob Kachelriess

Thanks to Layla Muhammad and Jacob Solis for this week’s newsletter edits!

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