U.S. Rep. Dina Titus told state legislators Thursday evening that Nevada has to “go big, or go home” in an upbeat 19-minute speech.
Nigel Williams-Goss scored 11 points in the final 6 minutes, 30 seconds to help Findlay Prep rally for a 57-53 win in the National High School Invitational at Georgetown Prep in North Bethesda, Md. Findlay, ranked No. 1 nationally in several polls, improved to 35-0 this season and has won 54 straight games.
Gov. Brian Sandoval, Supreme Court justices and members of the Nevada Legislature, among other dignitaries, participated in the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Memorial Day observance in Carson City with Holocaust survivors Thursday.
Jason Jones was sentenced Thursday to 15 years to life in prison for the June murder of Jaime Corona. The neighbors had a running argument over property Corona stole from Jones in a burglary, police said.
Sen. Tick Segerblom predicted 10 years of traffic jams during the massive Interstate 15 project south of the Spaghetti Bowl unless the state raises the gas tax, a move that could cut the timetable in half.
Gun enthusiasts across the nation are still buying bullets practically by the bushel if they can get them in those quantities but in Las Vegas some gun stores are limiting customers to one or two boxes per day, local gun store owners said Thursday.
Two women have been charged in a botched burglary last month in which a man was shot.
Venture capital spending in Nevada last year totaled $7.09 million on four deals, according to data compiled by the National Venture Capital Association.
Bail was set Thursday at $500,000 for an 18-year-old accused of plowing a speeding vehicle into a crowded Las Vegas restaurant while under the influence of prescription drugs.
In an unusual act of compassion, a prosecutor Thursday asked a judge to sentence the boyfriend of the late construction defects attorney Nancy Quon to probation for his role in a failed suicide scheme involving the attorney.
Las Vegas statistics guru Jeremy Aguero stood in front of a packed room at the Four Seasons, giving the local business community their medicine.
CHICAGO — Roger Ebert, the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism who, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb, died Thursday. He was 70.
An F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter jet destined for Nellis Air Force Base that made a precautionary landing March 11 at the Lubbock, Texas, airport is still there, a spokesman for manufacturer Lockheed Martin said Thursday.
A teenager facing drunken driving charges in a Southern Nevada crash that killed five members of a California family had escaped from a juvenile facility, and it’s unclear whether anyone ever went looking for him, an Orange County supervisor said Thursday.
Representatives from two unions and the Strip’s two major casino operators will begin contract negotiations today covering thousands of hotel and restaurant workers at some 20 resorts.
A resolution that could eventually lead to annual sessions for the Nevada Legislature — including regular sessions in Las Vegas — won approval Thursday from a Senate committee.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the fire that destroyed the Key Largo hotel-casino March 28.
A longtime wildlife biologist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife has been named the agency’s new director after the last one was forced out in part because of ongoing disputes between conservationists and ranchers.
The government of Vietnam on Thursday formally approved requested amendments to the investment certificate of Asian Coast Development in the company’s planned Ho-Tram Strip project that is 24 percent owned by Pinnacle Entertainment.
A man in a wheelchair was struck by a school bus in a busy Las Vegas intersection.