The story begins with a flood. It was the most severe of its kind since the 1800s, a torrent that rose along the Red River, the result of abundant snowfall and extreme temperatures. It reached more than three miles inland and crested in town at 54 feet, causing an evacuation of more than 50,000 and a bill for damages throughout the region that reached $3.5 billion.
State Assemblyman Steven Brooks began the week bailing out of jail and ended it with a medical evaluation that followed another encounter with police.
Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones probably thought participating in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade on Monday would be a controversy-free exercise in community participation.
Nevada health authorities might get a new tool to deal with mentally ill people who appear to be a danger to themselves or others: a court order committing them to outpatient care and regular medication.
Jessica Carscadden of San Diego has donated some 200 teddy bears for Clark County firefighters to give to children.
He has sold out shows in Las Vegas for 20 years, but Penn Jillette’s ticket to immortality could be a small, rust-colored spider native to Nevada’s nuclear proving ground.
At last we have a good reason to stay awake during the first month of the Nevada Legislature.
The Review-Journal asked UNLV to answer questions about aspects of the plan to build a 60,000-seat domed venue with the world’s biggest indoor video screen on campus near the Strip.
PARK CITY, Utah – The dramatic film “Fruitvale” and the documentary “Blood Brother” won over audiences and Sundance Film Festival judges. Both American films won audience awards and grand jury prizes Saturday at the Sundance Awards.
CHICAGO – As Quinton “Rampage” Jackson walked with his entourage out of United Center on Saturday night, he yelled out to anyone who was listening: “You’re going to miss me.”
Lady Gaga was “Born This Way” on Friday night at the MGM Grand Garden. For two-plus hours, the pop star’s show registered as a sci-fi self-help seminar complete with a loose narrative about aliens and humans birthing a new race.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra brought the audience to its feet Friday night in Artemus Ham Hall at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with its rousing performances of Edvard Grieg’s “Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16,” and Sergei Prokofiev’s “Symphony No. 5 in B-flat minor, Op. 100.”
Speaking Saturday at the 2013 Live Well Health Expo, former pediatric nurse JoAnn Rupiper sought to dispel vaccine myths and misconceptions.
A fight between two men inside the Galleria at Sunset mall in Henderson spilled into the parking lot and ended with one man shooting the other in the arm Saturday morning, according to police.
A 35-year-old Pahrump woman was arrested on an accessory to murder charge Friday in connection with the death of a man whose body was dumped on the outskirts of town for coyotes to devour.
INKSTER, Mich. – Authorities say a third-grade pupil brought a loaded handgun to his Detroit-area school, but was stopped before he walked through the doors.
WRIGHT, N.Y. – Authorities say 67 dead cats and 99 living cats had to be removed from a filthy home in upstate New York.