Residents’ questions — and some complaints — about how long it took for firefighters to start knocking down flames on Mount Charleston are just part of a larger schism in the world of fighting wildfires.
An injured bear cub is on the mend north of Lake Tahoe thanks to some help from local volunteers and police in Truckee, Calif.
Union Pacific Railroad officials are defending their handling of the cleanup of the remains of a suicide victim whose widow complained his skin and bones were still on the tracks more than two weeks after he was struck by a train in Northern Nevada.
A 75-year-old Nevada bank robber known as the “Fedora Bandit” for the hat he wore in a string of seven robberies around Lake Tahoe and Northern California has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Aces, Evan Marshall (3-5); 51s, Sean Henn (1-4)
The odds were stacked against the Southern Nevada Bulls on Saturday, but coach Chris Martinez had a plan.
The big news that Danny Garcia and Lucas Matthysse will meet on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight Sept. 14 at the MGM Grand Garden has boxing people believing the pay-per-view record of 2.5 million buys set in 2007 when Mayweather fought Oscar De La Hoya is in jeopardy.
The House voted last week to delay key segments of the new health care law that require individuals to carry insurance and for most companies to provide health coverage to their workers.
Weeks before the late former prosecutor David Schubert was released from prison, his ex-girlfriend and legal colleague went to Family Court seeking protection from him, court records obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal show.
Follow the link for the results of the Connie Mack State Tournament.
After decades of scrambling on the underside of California bridges to pluck endangered peregrine falcon chicks from ill-placed nests, inseminating female birds and releasing captive-raised fledglings, wildlife biologists have been so successful in bringing back the powerful raptors that they now threaten Southern California’s endangered shorebird breeding sites.
Dr. Joe Hardy of Boulder City received the Physician of the Year award during the Clark County Medical Society Presidential Installation Dinner and Awards Ceremony recently at the Four Seasons.
In response to criticism from advocacy groups, federal land managers plan to hold a public workshop to solicit ideas on how to protect wild horses from excessive heat at a major holding facility near Reno.
Reality TV stars have a long, storied history of being looked down upon. But there’s an unusual type of venom directed at Las Vegas’ Brown family in the fourth season premiere of “Sister Wives” (9 p.m. Sunday, TLC).
A severe thunderstorm with a 71-mph wind gust measured at Nellis Air Force Base swept across the Las Vegas Valley on Friday evening, causing heavy damage in places, stranding drivers in flash floods, snapping power poles and tearing trees from the ground.
Lee Westwood has contended enough in the majors that he can identify important moments, even if he could barely see his ball.
A trade show veteran who entered the business accidentally, Chuck Schwartz hasn’t left his resulting success to happenstance.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to resume peace talks with Israel only after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gave him a letter guaranteeing that the basis of the negotiations will be Israel’s pre-1967 borders, two senior Palestinian officials said Saturday.
Marlene wrote in with a problem. She got “almost run over” by a bicyclist a while back while on the sidewalk, and this led her to wondering: Are bicycles allowed on the sidewalk? Yup. It’s totally allowed.
In Detroit’s heyday, it was the place where workers in a rising middle class flocked to factories to build the cars that changed America’s way of life. It was a city of innovation, of pride, of grit.
“Man of Steel” director Zack Snyder made a surprise appearance at Comic-Con on Saturday to announce he is making another Superman film and it will include Batman – the first time the two superheroes will be united on the big screen.
Wearing a hooded sweatshirt in the middle of a Las Vegas July might seem insane, but for hundreds of protesters rallying for Trayvon Martin outside of the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse on Saturday morning, wearing hoodies was a symbol of justice.
Police were investigating a scuffle Friday between rapper Kanye West and a cameraman at Los Angeles International Airport, where paparazzi are known to lurk in hopes of snapping shots of celebrities.
Some recited the names of the dead. Some did good deeds for their neighbors. And some practiced yoga, walked through nature, or simply talked.
If you see nothing but doom and gloom in today’s frothy housing market, some industry experts have a message for you: Buck up.
Robert Saucier, chief executive of Las Vegas-based Galaxy Gaming Inc., issued a four-page letter to shareholders on Friday to explain the issues associated with the company surrounding a recent decision by California gaming regulators.
A 31-year-old man has been charged with two counts of injury to the elderly after authorities found four men malnourished and held against their will in a dungeon-like Houston house.
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