RENO — The Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert may be nine months away, but organizers’ new lottery-style system for ticket sales will debut Monday.
NASCAR fined Kurt Busch $50,000 on Friday for his poor behavior during the Sprint Cup finale last weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. NASCAR cited an obscene gesture Busch made inside his car and him being verbally abusive to a reporter in fining the 2004 Cup champion.
CARSON CITY — Nevada backers of a plan to ring Lake Tahoe with a scenic bikeway are $6 million closer to completing the $82 million trail.
SEATTLE — It has been a rich year for students of D.B. Cooper, the mysterious skyjacker who vanished out the back of a Boeing 727 while wearing a business suit, a parachute and a pack with $200,000 in ransom money 40 years ago Thursday.
Strategic shoppers, promotions and customer service. It’s all in a Black Friday’s work. But was it worth it? Some retailers and shoppers say yes.
This actually is their first rodeo. Pinto Ranch, a high-end retailer of Western clothing and accessories, can’t wait to experience its first National Finals Rodeo, which comes out of the chute Thursday in Las Vegas.
NEW YORK — NBA owners and players reached a tentative agreement early Saturday to end the 149-day lockout.
Scott Herbstman looked over the third-generation 2012 Mazda MX-5 Miata with a keen eye and asked a lot of questions Friday at the Motor Trend International Auto Show in Las Vegas.
A 14-year-old girl was in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car in the northwest valley Friday night, Las Vegas police said.
Sarah Ralston, a former Las Vegas newscaster who went on to speak for a gaming giant, higher education and dissident writers, died Wednesday after a brief illness. She was 50.
A five-part special report begins Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and online at lvrj.com. The culmination of a yearlong investigation covering more than two decades of officer-involved shootings in Clark County, the series will analyze the systemic issues that help determine when, where, how and why police shootings happen — and what can be done to limit them. The Review-Journal investigation includes staff-produced online documentaries, a searchable database of all police shootings since 1990, an archive of original documents, videotaped re-enactments by police and other interactive features.
As banks look to replace billions of dollars in lost fee revenue, a new report asserts that the low-income consumer financial services market is more profitable and larger than the banking industry has realized.
Shortly after surviving a game that was in doubt most of the way, senior guard Oscar Bellfield was looking ahead to UNLV’s next opponent.
A homeless man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after he caught fire Thursday night.
In the food court at the Meadows mall, protesters from Occupy Las Vegas lurked among the holiday shoppers, trying to blend in with the crowd.