Maddie White
Multimedia Journalist
Las Vegas
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Maddie White is a multimedia journalist (MMJ) and Weekend Morning Anchor for FOX5.
As a reporter, she focuses on solutions-based journalism, and hopes to bring Nevadans resources and guidance when they need it most.
Maddie comes to the valley directly from Boise, Idaho, where she worked for more than two years as an MMJ and weekend anchor for KIVI-TV.
Prior to this, she studied and worked in the CBS Media Center for ATVN’s Annenberg Media in South Los Angeles. Where she honed her skills in front of the camera and behind the scenes as an assignment editor and photographer.
A proud Trojan, Maddie is a graduate of the Master’s program at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. She also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from Pace University in New York City — where she lived for a handful of years in her early 20s.
Maddie is a San Diego native, and grew up surrounded by an arts-and-music-loving family in the picturesque beach town of Coronado, California.
When she's not reporting, Maddie enjoys playing guitar, going on bike rides, and sifting through vintage clothes and vinyl. She also enjoys scoping out the culinary scene in Las Vegas and connecting with viewers on social media. Find her on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 2:13 PM PST
|By Elaine Emerson and Maddie White
Ballot tabulation continues at the Clark County Election Department Wednesday as the registrar’s office sifts through tens of thousands of ballots.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 8:52 PM PST
|By Maddie White
Ahead of the busy holiday shopping season, FOX5 looked into how the ability to hire has evolved in the last year for Nevada's small businesses.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 10:11 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
When CCSD makes a purchase over $50,000, under Nevada law, multiple bids from vendors should be reviewed and considered. But FOX5 News uncovered a legal loophole that one district official says is being relied upon the majority of the time. Now concerns are being raised that Nevada businesses are losing out on their chance at multimillion dollar contracts.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 6:47 AM PDT
|By Caitlin Lilly and Maddie White
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying suspects who are accused of stealing multiple puppies from pet stores.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 8:43 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
In an effort to reduce traffic congestion for drivers heading back to California after busy Las Vegas weekends, the state's workers have completed a so-called “one-mile transition lane” on their side of the Nevada-California state line heading south. The project was first announced by the golden state’s governor last December.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2022 at 2:47 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Nevadans with special needs are “hitting the gym” at a first-of-its-kind fitness center in Nevada, The Ability Center aims to improve quality of life through fitness.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 10:21 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
A winter surge is of particular concern amid recent changes to the level of oversight that authorities have over COVID-19 cases, as well as access to lab testing.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 11:31 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
A 9-year-old girl in North Las Vegas is being called a hero after she escaped a kidnapper and carried her baby brother back to the 7-Eleven where they were abducted Monday night. In an exclusive interview, she sat down with FOX5 to share her story.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 8:14 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
A 9-year-old girl carried her baby brother to safety after they were kidnapped in North Las Vegas Monday night, according to her mother. A suspect is behind bars.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 9:26 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
A new report reveals 8th graders in Nevada performed significantly lower in the subject of mathematics since 2019. So what is needed to raise our grades, and in what areas are we already acing the test?
Updated: Oct. 23, 2022 at 10:01 AM PDT
|By Maddie White
Not all was lost after When We Were Young was canceled Saturday. The All-American Rejects was among the bands from the lineup that performed a free, all-ages show in Las Vegas.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 10:23 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Despite initial skepticism, the Las Vegas Festival Grounds and Live Nation now seem prepared to welcome guests clad in skinny jeans and black eyeliner for the first-ever When We Were Young Festival.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2022 at 2:36 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Slap fighting, a sport in which opponents slap each other across the face, is coming to Nevada.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 7:00 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
On Monday, NDOC officials and Governor Steve Sisolak met for the first time since a dangerous convict escaped, and since the former department director stepped down at the request of the governor. Meanwhile, the new leader William Gittere is hearing an earful of passionate calls for change.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2022 at 1:21 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
The UNLV Rebels on Saturday honored fallen Las Vegas Officer Truong Thai at Allegiant Stadium.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 10:38 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
The Las Vegas community is in mourning after longtime Metro Police Officer Truong Thai was killed in the line of duty by gunfire early Thursday. In the meantime, a bystander is recovering from also being shot, and a suspect is in custody.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 8:06 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
A new court-based program could help thousands of people avoid losing their home. But Las Vegas landlords are hoping the program also facilitates a quicker process for court hearings.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2022 at 9:57 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
A photographer shoved to the ground by Davante Adams has officially filed a police reported against the Raiders’ superstar wide receiver. As a result of the incident, Adams could face consequences from the league.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 8:49 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
More licensed therapists and counselors in Southern Nevada are leaving private insurance networks and accepting cash-only payments, according to local mental health leaders.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2022 at 7:13 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Church pastors pushed people to get to the polls Sunday in a valley-wide effort at more than 30 Black-led church congregations on the Historic Westside and in North Las Vegas.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 2:11 PM PDT
|By Cody Lee, Elaine Emerson and Maddie White
One dog died after a respiratory illness was discovered at the Animal Foundation shelter in Las Vegas.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 8:54 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Clark County School District Board of Trustees ranked Superintendent Jara as “highly effective” in a Thursday evaluation. The board averaged their scores and ultimately voted 5-2 to accept Superintendent Jara’s final ranking. As a result, trustees will possibly vote on extending his contract until 2026 at a Wednesday morning work session, which would include a $75,000 annual raise, making his annual salary $395,000.
Updated: Oct. 2, 2022 at 3:43 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Five years after 1 October, UMC trauma surgeons want to remind the community that they still offer free Stop the Bleed classes, which they host regularly at their Healthy Living Institute.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 2:07 PM PDT
|By Caitlin Lilly and Maddie White
Las Vegas police say escaped inmate Porfirio Duarte-Herrera was captured Wednesday night as he was trying to flee to Tijuana, Mexico.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 10:29 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Almost five years after the 1 October mass shooting, UMC trauma surgeons are reflecting on what they saw that night and sharing what they have continued to see ever since.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 11:11 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Lawmakers unanimously passed a law Tuesday that gives principals and school organizational teams new methods for ensuring power and control over their own school sites.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 10:20 AM PDT
|By Caitlin Lilly and Maddie White
The Animal Foundation on Monday sent out an urgent plea for people to foster animals amid a staffing shortage.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2022 at 1:53 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
A man police say was armed with a rifle, believed to be in his 20s, was shot dead by an officer Saturday night in a North Las Vegas neighborhood after police responded to a call that he was breaking into a home.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 3:47 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Governor Steve Sisolak announced a free digital car Thursday that promises to help Nevadans save up to 80% on certain prescription medications. Once you receive your digital ArrayRx discount card, you can use it immediately at any participating pharmacy.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 8:32 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Thousands lined the streets of the world-famous Las Vegas Strip Tuesday for the WNBA Championship Parade celebrating the victorious Las Vegas Aces.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 9:31 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
The Las Vegas Aces have a close relationship with the city's residents, and one example reveals how the power of that connection may even be strong enough to create miracles.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2022 at 9:53 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
After the Las Vegas Aces won the WNBA championship in Connecticut on Sunday, young women on a high school basketball team in Las Vegas shared with FOX5 what it means to them to watch their hometown team win the WNBA championship.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 10:37 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
In the unincorporated town of Moapa Valley in Clark County, residents are not strangers to occasional flooding when it rains. But with a sudden storm bringing flash floods early Wednesday morning, crews rescued three people from two cars after they got stuck in the floodwater in their vehicles.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 7:13 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
The Las Vegas Aces have the chance to be the first professional sports team to bring home a championship to Las Vegas after beating the Connecticut Sun on Sunday, in their first WNBA Finals match.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 6:36 AM PDT
|By Maddie White
At the Clark County School District, you may notice your student is being offered fewer field trips this year-- if any at all. And there’s a reason for that.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 6:50 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
It has now been six weeks since the new number for the suicide prevention lifeline 988 was rolled out. In its first week alone, the volume of people reaching out was up by about 45 percent from the week before the transition. But mental health experts are now defending the lifeline against critics and setting the record straight.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 1:52 PM PDT
|By Elaine Emerson and Maddie White
Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles made his first court appearance Thursday in connection with the death of a journalist.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 9:30 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
The investigative journalist stabbed outside his home Friday had previously exposed allegations against a Clark County official who has since been arrested as a suspect in his homicide.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 7:56 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Construction professions are plentiful, often lucrative and in high-demand in the quickly-growing Las Vegas valley. In response to that, a new trades school is being developed in the valley -- a charter high school -- that aims to expose students to careers in construction.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 8:19 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Students in Moapa Valley said their classrooms are reaching extreme temperatures amid HVAC issues, according to parents, which Clark County School District’s facilities personnel have been working to fix. Still, fed up parents are pulling their kids out of school.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 7:35 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
People around the world can now pre-register for tickets to Formula 1′s Las Vegas Grand Prix race next year. Meanwhile, nonprofit leaders and events workers are just some of the Southern Nevadans revving up to cash big checks from this massive event.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2022 at 10:07 AM PDT
|By Maddie White
Three people have been arrested in a car chase involving police officers after a suspected carjacking and robbery.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 10:13 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
A meeting at the Nevada State Athletic Commission to discuss the AG’s findings got heated Tuesday morning, after the AG’s office stated in the report, “Law enforcement statements that no crime has been committed were conclusory and premature, and compromised any possible future prosecutions.”
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 7:24 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Las Vegas police said no arrests have been made after a dead body, who they've identified as male, was found in the trunk of a car outside an apartment complex Friday.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 8:22 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
The price tag for security upgrades at Eldorado High School was $26 million, while other schools received investments at only a fraction of the cost. FOX5 is breaking down what you need to know about the latest security expenditures.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 8:38 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
Critically low reservoir conditions are prompting U.S. officials to cut Nevada’s water allotment by 8%. Still, experts say this should not have any impact on the daily lives of Nevadans next year, because they already use far less water than what the state is being allocated.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 7:38 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
After a false alarm caused a reported stampede at Harry Reid airport Sunday, agencies such as TSA, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and airport officials are defending themselves against criticism about the way communications were handled during and after the incident.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2022 at 8:06 AM PDT
|By Elaine Emerson and Maddie White
Flight delays are expected at Harry Reid International Airport Sunday morning after false reports of a shooting overnight.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 7:41 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
It was the first day of school for the hundreds of thousands of Clark County School District students, but for some bright-eyed students ready to learn, their experience was far from what they imagined. Many CCSD students missed their first day and waited in winding lines due to proof of residence issues.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2022 at 4:06 PM PDT
|By Maddie White
CCSD's Transportation representative expects an improvement in the reliability of school buses and their punctuality this school year.
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