The morning Vicki Bambini was burglarized for $1,000 in her Golden Nugget hotel room marked her 30th year visiting Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is preparing to nominate former Bush administration official James Comey to head the FBI, people familiar with the decision said Wednesday.
The Nevada Senate backed a bill Wednesday that would set up medical marijuana dispensaries and grow farms across the state.
A man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday for making false statements to a credit union to obtain a $7.5 million commercial real estate loan, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
The man who was arrested on unrelated charges during an investigation into critical injuries sustained by a 1-year-old boy who later died has been identified by Las Vegas police.
A man used a fake Facebook account to lure a teenage girl out of her house in an attempt to stage her kidnapping and rescue so he could look like a hero but ended up killing her, a police affidavit released Wednesday said.
A graduate of a unique executive development program at the University of Nevada, Reno turned executive with Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on Wednesday said the late economist Bill Eadington had a profound effect on his students and others in the industry during his 40-year career.
A 1-year-old boy who was taken to the hospital last week with severe head injuries has died, according to Las Vegas police.
Stowe Shoemaker will be the next dean of UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, university officials announced Wednesday.
The first time she came to Las Vegas, she turned $10 into a fat stack of cash. The second time, she was marched out of Aria in handcuffs. Who knew Isla Fisher was such a baller?
Nevada Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick said Wednesday she is not pushing Majestic Realty’s initiative to partner with the state to build a $770 million domed 60,000-seat stadium near the UNLV campus.
A modern-day abolitionist movement that includes Las Vegas law enforcement officials, the state attorney general’s office, legislators and grass-roots activists wants to reclassify the pimps who dominate the world’s oldest profession as modern-day slave traders.
It cost Nevada taxpayers $94,508.12 for the legal and investigative work in the review that led to the ouster of former Assemblyman Steven Brooks from his District 17 seat, documents show.
Police are looking for a man they believe was involved in four bank robberies from April 5 to May 28 in south Las Vegas.
America’s working mothers are now the primary breadwinners in a record 40 percent of households with children — a milestone in the changing face of modern families, up from just 11 percent in 1960.
A pedestrian bridge opened Wednesday to make it easier to get from downtown Las Vegas into Symphony Park, between the railroad tracks and Interstate 15.
A military investigation has determined human error was to blame for a March mortar explosion that killed seven U.S. Marines during a live-fire training exercise at the Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada.
Q: My husband went out a couple of weeks ago and picked up a Pink Lady apple. I it planted they way you recommended and I have mulched the ground except for the 6 inches next to the trunk. I have it securely staked and I am watering by hand every day. What’s next? Food? Or what to make it do well?
When it comes to outdoor accessories, bright colors and bold patterns are the key trends for summer 2013.
Clark County Cooperative Extension master gardener Denise McConnell will present two free gardening classes in June.
It has been said that the greenest building is the one that’s already built, because so much energy is embodied in the existing structure. There is some truth to that statement and greening an existing home or building can be the shortest route to energy efficiency, long-term savings, increased comfort and environmental healing.
Electric lights were first marketed to the public about 1880. It is said that Louis Comfort Tiffany’s famous lily lamp with glass shades for light bulbs was the first lamp with a shade that projected light down, not up, like a candle flame.
An Arizona woman is jailed in Mexico on accusations that she tried to smuggle nearly 12 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. Her family insists she was framed.
HOUSTON — Service Corp. International plans to buy Stewart Enterprises Inc. in a cash deal valued at about $1.13 billion that combines the two largest funeral home and cemetery operators in the United States.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center box office and online at unlvtickets.com for the 2013 NBA Summer League, which will be held July 12-22 at the Thomas & Mack and Cox Pavilion.
Jon Wellinghoff, a Nevadan and one of government’s top energy regulators, is stepping down as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
An informal gathering to remember, honor and offer comfort to friends and family of a teenage hiker who fell to his death Monday in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area will be held Wednesday night.
A Utah woman gave birth to a healthy set of quintuplets over the weekend with help from a team of eight doctors, one anesthesiologist and dozens of nurses ensuring the mother and the tiny babies survived.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Tamer Mosallam was supposed to get picked up on Memorial Day for a trip to the beach with friends, but his father had other ideas and the carload of teens left him behind.