• LAKE MEAD — It has been a slow week for stripers. Even regulars are having difficulty catching fish, though trout imitations are catching a few big fish.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Nine teams from the Mountain West and Missouri Valley conferences will compete in an annual basketball series starting next season.
A close friend of Max Good was surveying the carnage this week, reflecting on the ridiculously huge challenge now facing the veteran college basketball coach, and offered this trace of hope:
Madison Hales was learning lessons in Las Vegas High’s wrestling room years before he even stepped on a mat for the Wildcats.
LARAMIE, Wyo. — Brandon Ewing scored 24 points and Tyson Johnson 22 to lead Wyoming to an 83-79 victory over San Diego State on Wednesday.
Las Vegas High baseball star Bryce Harper is only a sophomore, but he continues to make quite an impression, even on the national level.
Surprisingly, a man with “Ravens” in his name was elected mayor of Pittsburgh, where the Steelers, rivals of the Baltimore Ravens, reign supreme.
• ARBOR VIEW — Girls bowler Andie Szekely had a 496 series, including a 191 game, in a win over The Meadows.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — With another shot to be the hero for UNLV, freshman Oscar Bellfield made a determined drive down the right side of the lane and elevated toward the basket.
By her high standards, Jamie Smith had a rough first semester at UNLV.
It was one of the all-time great birthday gifts, though “Little” Anthony Gourdine had nothing to unwrap.
A lie doesn’t have to be huge before it matters.
The treatment of a county jail inmate injured when a corrections officer detonated a flash-bang grenade in his cell is now at the center of a federal lawsuit and a Metropolitan Police Department internal affairs investigation.
A policy analyst from the libertarian Cato Institute, based in Washington D.C., proposed a solution to Nevada’s budget crunch that doesn’t involve spending cuts or tax increases.
Robin Renshaw rolled his wheelchair through a cluster of people decrying the impacts that proposed state budget cuts could have on children, families and the disabled.
CARSON CITY — The Junior Reserve Office Training Corps program cadets who were scheduled to serve as the color guard and sing the national anthem at Gov. Jim Gibbons’ State of the State speech at 6 tonight have called off the appearance.
WASHINGTON — David Preciado, a senior at Moapa Valley High School, has never been east of Utah. His first extended trip will create memories to last a lifetime.
Paul Makabenta was in the Philippines when he received the phone call telling him that his physician wife of 24 years was slain by a patient at her Las Vegas office Monday.
Police are seeking felony theft charges against a former Las Vegas fire official based on allegations he double-billed the city for travel and other expenses.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday he has no hesitation about arranging a new round of deep budget cuts in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, even as they might displace more Nevadans during a recession.
CARSON CITY — State Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden accused Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto on Wednesday of operating under a “partisan double standard.”
CARSON CITY — The man who Gov. Jim Gibbons last month appointed to serve as state Tourism Commission director was not among six finalists that commissioners chose Wednesday to fill the position.
Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley told a business group Wednesday that continuing to “cut, cut, cut” the state budget in response to revenue shortfalls will damage Nevada in the long run.
The man facing child endangerment charges after his 6-year-old daughter was accidentally shot and killed on New Year’s Eve is now facing murder charges.
As a judge, Elizabeth Halverson would listen to victims testify in court about how they were hurt in criminal cases.
Former strip club mogul Michael Galardi is living and working in the San Diego area after being released from federal custody, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Two bodies were found in an apartment on the east side of the valley Wednesday.