It was a matchup that seemed destined to happen almost from the moment the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association realigned for this school year.
Faith Lutheran’s girls basketball team started the week with a win over Virgin Valley.
When Wendell West received a technical foul during the fourth quarter Saturday, the Agassi Prep boys basketball coach was hoping it would inspire his team.
The Pahranagat Valley boys basketball team has had its share of highs and lows this season.
Calvary Chapel’s girls basketball team has three solid offensive weapons and can be awfully tough to defend.
Perhaps this is oversimplifying it, but after watching UNLV come from behind and hold off San Diego State 72-70 at the Thomas & Mack Center on Saturday night, I think I might know what’s wrong with the Rebels.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted last week to renew the federal domestic violence law.
Just hours after Clark County officials served notice of a proposal to abolish the Las Vegas constable’s office, the man holding the elected post was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in his county vehicle.
Local artist Susanne Forestieri was organizing her first-ever “Carnival Meets Mardi Gras” parade in the Arts District downtown.
The Las Vegas Township Constable’s office is on track to lose nearly $2 million during the first two and a half years of John Bonaventura’s leadership, the Review-Journal has learned.
Hispanic Govs. Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Susana Martinez of New Mexico were named honorary co-chairs of the Future Majority Caucus this month, part of a national Republican effort to recruit more women and minority candidates to run for state offices.
As she sat on the family sofa next to her proud mother and squirmy little sister, Jacky Martinez started by saying she was grateful for her life.
GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Florida prisoner who escaped in Texas after stabbing a detective with his eyeglasses was fatally shot early Saturday after refusing to cooperate with officers and lunging at them, police said.
The smiling boosters and female impersonators gathered in an abandoned theater lobby on the third floor of the troubled Neonopolis mall in downtown Las Vegas suggested the pending announcement was a big one.
The Las Vegas Monorail Co. transported its 55 millionth rider on Saturday.
They made history Saturday afternoon at the Springs Preserve to celebrate Black History Month.
In need of motivation, freshman forward Anthony Bennett got a bump from a fired-up crowd and a pep talk from his coach. It was exactly what he needed to carry UNLV over the hump.
Washington politics is front and center in Nevada’s capital as the third week of the Nevada Legislature begins Monday.
A mentally troubled man has confessed to killing his mother, whose body was found in a shallow grave in a northwest Arizona community, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Department.
The booming-voiced but pint-sized Andee Gibbs has made a local career of bringing to life many of those Jewish-mother roles that the theater world likes to reinvent about a dozen times a season.
Nevada agriculture and food exports have surpassed the $100 million mark for the first time in state history.
Pink never whispers, her voice a hand grenade with pin pulled.
Michael Harter walks down a hallway that takes him past lecture halls, a library and a cadaver lab. As the senior provost of Touro University Nevada, he is pleased that the institution he helped bring to the Silver State in 2004 is in a position to have an effect on the state’s health care issues.
When most people think of Goodwill, they think about cleaning out their closets. But accepting donations of “gently used” goods and selling those donated items in Goodwill retail stores is only part of what the organization does.
Most young people have initial high expectations about their futures. If you ask a class of ninth-graders how many plan to go to college after high school, almost all hands will raise.
There’s good news for high school seniors who need supplemental support to graduate with their 2013 class. There’s just as much good news for individuals who want to re-engage their education and pursue a GED diploma.
As an education financial aid adviser, Kevin Fudge hears a lot of interesting and sometimes very sad stories: Families struggling to help put their kids through college and weighing myriad financial aid options; new students trying to make sense of financial aid documentation that can get so confusing it blurs the definitions of grants and loans are just two examples.