RENO — An air tanker battling a wildfire crashed about 125 miles northeast of Reno Thursday, killing the pilot.
Some new pictures of Erin Andrews have surfaced, and the ESPN sideline reporter wants you to see these photos.
Time to take a break from NASCAR and the Sprint Cup points Chase. We can wait a week before again pondering whether Kyle Busch will finish in the top 12 to qualify for the playoffs.
It sounds awfully familiar, the news that the New York Racing Association is trying to arrange a rich stakes race at Belmont Park this fall using a corporate sponsor to boost the purse and featuring the two best horses in training.
Things couldn’t have gone much worse when Dirk Hayhurst made his major league debut for the San Diego Padres last season.
As first steps in comebacks go, Oliver McCall was pleased with his second-round knockout of John Hopoate on May 22 at The Orleans.
A free scouting report on the football season is being offered this weekend at the VegasInsider.com sports handicapping seminar at the Red Rock Casino.
It’s been more than two weeks since Andrea Celina Roye, 18, entered the wilderness of northern Utah’s Green Canyon after telling friends she was going hiking.
A snail the size of a pinhead that lives in eastern Nevada springs in the same basin from which the Southern Nevada Water Authority plans to pump groundwater is one of 29 species that biologists will study to find out if they need protection, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service supervisor said Wednesday.
The trial began Thursday for a California man accused of using a claw hammer to beat to death a 91-year-old cancer survivor and her grandson.
State and federal officials have intercepted about 200 checks sent to a Las Vegas post office box in what they describe as a property tax savings mail scam.
Respondents to a statewide poll said if the governor’s election were held today, they would prefer that U.S. District Court Judge Brian Sandoval and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman face off in a general election.
The Review-Journal survey polled 400 registered voters.
At many recent screenings of “Julie & Julia,” prominent noshes were buttered popcorn and candy counter confections. But seeing the movie about chef Julia Child and food blogger Julie Powell got Las Vegas residents Angela Shoho and Anjum Ismail hungry for finer fare.
RENO — A sharp drop in donations because of the recession has pushed the YMCA to the brink of bankruptcy in the Reno area.
An explosion on a boat at Lake Mead National Recreation Area injured five people Thursday evening.
The human remains found in the back of a car in a Walmart parking lot Wednesday belonged to that of a woman, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
CARSON CITY — Longtime trooper Tony Almarez was named chief of the Nevada Highway Patrol on Thursday as part of a number of promotions announced by Jerry Hafen, director of the state Department of Public Safety.
A North Las Vegas janitorial company violated federal and state labor laws by not paying its employees what they earned, a lawyer said Thursday in announcing a federal class action lawsuit against the company.
Preparations for the water pipeline to eastern Nevada will continue, and so will opposition to the multibillion-dollar project.
Las Vegas police are seeking two brothers in connection with a double slaying that happened earlier this month on a residential street near Decatur Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.
ZEPHYR COVE — U.S. Sen. John Ensign had a lot to say about preserving Lake Tahoe on Thursday, but refused to answer any questions from reporters about his affair with Cindy Hampton, the wife of one of his best friends.
Two former North Las Vegas police officers pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges related to a beating incident at the Cannery in December.