A bill proposing to prohibit new private ownership of exotic and potentially dangerous animals was substantially altered by a Nevada legislative committee on Thursday to instead direct county officials to consider whether to regulate the practice.
The Mountain West released its 2013 football schedules on Thursday.
A bill that would provide for the inclusion of photos of voters in election day poll books survived to see another day Thursday when it was re-referred to the Senate Finance Committee because of cost implications.
LOS ANGELES — A man who intentionally sawed his arms to the bone in a Home Depot store in California remained hospitalized in critical condition on Thursday while investigators tried to determine what led to the horrific action.
It was cause for celebration when Clark County School District officials claimed that its graduation rate jumped to
66 percent last summer.
“You guys starting to have a little bit of a dance party?” Sara Quin, one-half of folk, pop and now dance duo Tegan and Sara, asked Wednesday at the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
A California juvenile detention escapee had a blood-alcohol percentage of 0.12 percent — well above the Nevada legal limit of 0.08 percent — after a freeway crash that killed five Southern California family members and injured two others near Mesquite, prosecutors said Wednesday.
IRVING, Texas — A chartered bus overturned on a busy highway near Dallas on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring several others, authorities said.
Nevada’s 3,400 medical marijuana patients could buy their medication through licensed, state-regulated dispensaries under a bill that won unanimous Senate Judiciary Committee approval Thursday.
There’s a certain badge of fanship honor that comes with being able to say you saw a famous entertainer perform before that entertainer became famous . If you’d like to add that badge of honor to your plethora of others, you might consider moseying on over to the Clark County Fair & Rodeo today through Sunday at the County Fairgrounds in Logandale.
WASHINGTON — Watched by tearful relatives of Newtown school massacre victims, gun control supporters in the Senate won the first showdown over how to respond to the December shootings in Connecticut, defeating an effort by conservatives to derail firearms restrictions before debate could even start.
NEW YORK — Strands from baby’s first haircut. The first tooth. Tiny footprints sunk into clay. Some parents even tuck away the dried stump of the umbilical cord or the stick pregnancy test as a touching memento marking the milestones of their kids.
Letter-writing may seem like a lost art in this text- and Twitter-addicted age.
Several state legislators voiced no concern Wednesday about the U.S. Department of Energy’s plans to bury 403 canisters of nuclear bomb-usable waste at the Nevada National Security Site.
For the second straight month this year, Las Vegas visitation was down.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sixteen players have won major championships since Tiger Woods got his last one.
A calendar shift that moved the lucrative Chinese New Year holiday into February sent Nevada gaming revenues soaring, contributing to the largest single-month total ever for the Strip.
It has been more than three years since Evie Oquendo’s 15-year-old son was killed by a Las Vegas police officer, but the painful memories linger.
Randall II and Vashti Cunningham aren’t just the children of the greatest football player in UNLV history. They are Cunninghams, a name that brings even more pressure and expectations.
You’ve made the decision to sell your home – now you want to position yourself for a quick and successful sale. What’s the most important thing you can do to entice buyers?