Clark County department heads have 10 days to figure out how to cut staffing by 8 percent to help offset a $57 million budget shortfall.
Marques the ring-tailed lemur is the newest addition to the family-run Roos-N-More zoo in Moapa. The 3-ounce baby was born April 14 to a pair of the endangered primates that veterinarians Jay and Valerie Holt raised by hand.
Term-limited Republican state Sen. Mark Amodei, former head of the Nevada Mining Association, was appointed Tuesday to the Colorado River Commission.
Three months after a jury convicted Howard and Linda Awand of willfully failing to pay $2.5 million in income taxes, the couple on Tuesday was sentenced to prison by U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson.
SEATTLE — A Washington woman who accused David Copperfield of luring her to his private island in the Bahamas and raping her — and who was later charged with fabricating sexual assault claims against another man — is dropping her federal lawsuit against the magician.
It took more than 25 years, but Las Vegas police can finally cross one homicide investigation off their books.
Success on fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading tests is the strongest indicator that students will go on to graduate from high school, according to a report released Tuesday by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
You don’t see The Beatles in “Love,” but Michael Jackson might be part of his own tribute show when Cirque du Soleil brings it to the Strip in late 2012.
MGM Mirage is asking shareholders to allow the company to change its name to MGM Resorts International.
But company officials were quick to point out Tuesday that the proposed name change does not mean The Mirage is on the market.