Racing team owner Sam Schmidt will leave Las Vegas Motor Speedway a winner regardless of how any of his teams does today in the inaugural IndyCar World Championships.
A Douglas County woman has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than $80,000 from her employer to support a penny-slot gambling habit.
State officials said a rash of collisions between vehicles and abandoned domestic horses on three rural highways in Northern Nevada is prompting the removal of as many as 100 of the animals from the range.
ELKO — A Nevada judge has sentenced an Iraq War veteran to up to 32 years in prison for the severe beating of a 71-year-old Spring Creek man at an Elko car wash two years ago.
Here’s the list of winners in the Nevada Press Association 2011 “Better Newspaper Contest,” announced Saturday night at the newspaper organization’s annual convention.
A longtime Henderson pediatrician was charged with participating in a scheme to defraud investors and chronically ill patients through the use of experimental stem cell implant procedures.
Anybody who has tracked the debate over who should operate the Regional Transportation Commission’s bus service has to be wondering what the heck is going on with the process, which has dragged on for six months.
An officer with the Metropolitan Police Department had an idea, a little over a decade ago, to form a special unit dedicated to investigating crimes against illegal immigrants and building trust between officers and the local Hispanic community.
As a successful businessman, Micah Duncan traveled in style and lived in upscale neighborhoods around the Las Vegas Valley.
WASHINGTON — Congress last week finalized free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, deals intended to increase exports and expand economic relationships with the U.S. allies.
New driving laws can be hard to get used to, even for those who write and pass them.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal won the top award Saturday in Carson City at the annual Nevada Press Association’s “Better Newspaper Contest,” taking the general excellence award for the third year in a row.
The circumstances surrounding Andre Agassi’s return to the tennis court in Las Vegas on Saturday were far more pleasant than the last time he had played on the UNLV campus.
Water to about 1,200 residences was expected to be turned back on at about 9 tonight, several hours earlier than expected after crews were able to pinpoint the problem in a faulty water line along Nellis Boulevard between Sahara Avenue and Charleston Boulevard, a spokesman for the water district said.
Pole sitter Ron Hornaday Jr. waded through a crash-filled Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday for his second straight victory and record 51st overall.