It took UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson awhile on Saturday night, but he put some of that talk to rest by submitting John Moraga in the main event of UFC on Fox 8 in Seattle to retain the belt.
Federal land managers have issued Burning Man organizers a four-year special recreation permit that allows a peak population of 68,000 on the Northern Nevada desert this year.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man suspected in nine bank robberies and attempted bank robberies in Las Vegas and Henderson.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was discharged from a Boston hospital Saturday, just under three weeks after she suffered a seizure at their Nantucket home, a State Department spokesman said.
You probably need a special kind of vision to see what Charlie Fox sees when he looks at the property he recently purchased at 1800 Industrial Road. To the untrained eye, it might look like a run-down mix of light industrial warehouses and office space that have seen better days — but probably not in the last 40 years.
Cale, the singer-songwriter and producer known as the main architect of the Tulsa Sound, passed away Friday night at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. His manager, Mike Kappus, said Cale died of a heart attack. He was 74.
A small June passenger gain at McCarran International Airport reported Friday presages the likely pattern for the balance of the year.
Pretty matters. Or, more precisely, the way a thing looks can affect the way you interact with it.
In the same building where Barbra Streisand, Dean Martin and Elvis Presley performed over 50 years ago, more than 600 people from 37 countries came to show off their Rubik’s Cube talents Saturday.
The man who was fatally shot by Las Vegas police after confronting them in his underwear Tuesday evening has been identified as Southaly Ketmany, 35.
Silver State Schools Credit Union posted second-quarter net income of $7.48 million and year-to-date income of $8.65 million.
One man died after being thrown from his Jeep in a two-car accident about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, according to North Las Vegas police.
With the arts being cut in public schools, Roz Knight says it is up to the community to pick up the slack.
Costs relating to merging with MidAmerican Energy were responsible for a $6.2 million decline in NV Energy’s second-quarter earnings, compared with 2012, though net income for the year is up by $3 million, the company reported Friday.
Esther Brown is out to steer troubled youths to a better life. Brown established The Embracing Project in 2005. She teaches juveniles in the criminal justice system the similarities between gangs and genocide, including recruiting by peer pressure and using symbols. She then relates it to genocide in other countries. The 12-week curriculum includes tools for improving self-worth and bettering themselves.
Upperclassmen and graduate students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas might be able to enjoy a different kind of living starting in fall 2015.
Pope Francis is celebrating Mass in Rio de Janeiro’s massive cathedral as he begins the culminating weekend of his first international trip, to the church’s World Youth Day.
Dale Dulaney has been bedridden for more than 25 years with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. It was only in 2009 when a nurse introduced him to one of her friends — Henderson resident Karen Wheeler — that Dulaney found an escape from his bed.
Jake Ellenberger thinks he has won the battle against Rory MacDonald in the buildup to their fight on tonight’s UFC on Fox 8 card in Seattle.
A bride-to-be and her fiance’s best man were missing Saturday after a speedboat carrying six friends crashed into a construction barge near New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge. Four others, including the groom-to-be, were hurt.
A gunman holding hostages inside a South Florida apartment complex killed six people before being shot to death by a SWAT team that stormed the building early Saturday following an hours-long standoff, police said.
When the new heir to the British throne was born Monday, three other babies were likely born somewhere in the world in the very same second, statistics show; 254 others within a minute; 360,000 others before the Earth had completed a single turn on its axis.
Thursday’s winner of “Hell’s Kitchen” will become head chef at Gordon Ramsay’s pub in Caesars Palace. Does that mean Ramsay has enough confidence in a reality-TV star to let her take over his kitchen?
Often I say learn from my mistakes. Today, I’m saying learn from my readers’ questions — because I did.
Four Southern Nevadans who fought in the Korean War recently shared 60-year-old memories about where they were on July 27, 1953 — the day that peace came to North and South Korea.
These days, free time is an increasingly endangered phenomenon. That’s why today’s homeowners are all in favor of spending less weekend time maintaining their homes. Vinyl siding and windows have long been common home features for just that reason. Today, the latest trend is maintenance-free trim.
Want to know how to avoid a speeding ticket? Easy – don’t speed. But even the most law-abiding drivers with flawless records can make mistakes and find themselves pulled over. In fact, 34 million people in the United States receive speeding tickets each year, according to the National Motorists Association.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh might have got more than he bargained for with an investment in Krave Massive, a Las Vegas nightclub with a troubled past.
For a generation of children, the dream was to beat Mike Tyson.