One of the hallmarks of the Coronado boys volleyball team this season is its ability to come from behind.
■ LAKE MEAD — Anglers have been using threadfin and gizzard shad in the Vegas Wash area as live bait. Low water has left vegetation exposed, which is making things difficult for those throwing cast nets. Several members of the Nevada Striper Club caught double-digit fish during their weekend tournament. One fish weighed in at 14.9 pounds. The Overton Arm is giving up catfish to anglers soaking shrimp; largemouth bass are hitting whole night crawlers. Bluegill are taking baits in the back of coves above Echo Bay. Fishing has been slow going at Hemenway and along the beaches.
You know the years are going by when you look at your youngest son and realize for the first time that he can no longer be referred to as “The Wild Man.” Such is now the case with my youngest son, Hyrum, almost 17, whose outdoor adventures — and sometimes misadventures — have often become the subject matter for this column during his growing up years.
Boxers J’Leon Love and Matt Garretson tested positive for diuretics after their May 4 fights at the MGM Grand Garden, the Nevada Athletic Commission announced Wednesday.
Cori Sutton vaguely remembers Green Valley’s last appearance in the state softball tournament.
The weak economy has created a workforce of extremes. Millions of Americans desperately need full-time work. Millions more are piling up overtime.
Clark County School District officials aren’t betting on Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $484 million increase to K-12 education spending, which would largely land in Las Vegas Valley schools if approved by the Legislature. Clark County schools enroll 70 percent of the state’s students.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — So you didn’t win Wednesday’s $360 million Powerball jackpot? Make that you and everyone else.
A private psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas is stepping up to help mentally ill youth with a “very overdue” expansion to services.
Hello there baby Alexander and baby Sophia, baby Anthony and baby Isabella, baby Daniel, baby Jayden and baby Jacob, baby Emma, baby Olivia and baby Mia. You’re not a unique, special flower, after all, you cute little bundle of joy. You have the most common baby names in Nevada, the federal government says.
RENO — Foothill’s boys golf team was right where it wanted to be entering the final day of the Division I state tournament.
NEW ORLEANS — The suspect in a Mother’s Day parade shooting that left 19 people wounded in New Orleans was taken into custody Wednesday night, police said.
GRANBURY, Texas — A tornado ripped through a picturesque lakeside North Texas town on Wednesday, resulting in multiple fatalities and destroying or damaging homes, authorities said.
RENO — Boulder City sophomore Luke Logan entered the final round of the Division I-A boys state golf tournament at Sierra Sage Golf Course with a one-stroke lead and determined to improve on last year’s second-place finish in Class 3A.
Quayd Brooks couldn’t keep up his hot start in the Division III boys state golf tournament.
A single-vehicle accident left an Ford Explorer standing on end on southbound U.S. Highway 95 at the Jones off-ramp just after 4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.
Las Vegas police are looking for a wig-wearing man with a glass eye wanted for questioning in connection to a California homicide.
Two Las Vegas men are accused of using counterfeit U.S. Postal Service keys to steal checks, credit cards and other items from local mailboxes, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
O.J. Simpson was charming and gregarious during three hours of testimony Wednesday. Just before the lunch break, Simpson dropped a legal bombshell: He believed his trial lawyer Yale Galanter was defending him for free.
Sure, the rest of the country can’t wait for summer. But for those of us in the desert who’d rather curl up in an icy bath until Labor Day at the earliest, TV is making it easier than ever to stay indoors.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Mystery deepens: Monolith outside Vegas may have been in desert for years
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people