With Yucca Mountain now an afterthought for disposing the nation’s highly radioactive waste, one federal geologist says he might have other places to put it than the volcanic-rock ridge, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
A growing number of military parents want to end the age-old tradition of switching schools for their kids.
Not long ago, the Atlanta Falcons were close to reaching the Super Bowl. Now, coach Mike Smith is overseeing a team that is a super-sized disappointment.
Another inmate died in the Northern Nevada Correctional Center this week, the fourth inmate death in October at that state prison in Carson City.
Women, as a gender, don’t always fare particularly well in comics.
The feel-good tone was set early on the first day of the Life Is Beautiful festival, when a worker for an environmental awareness group administered high fives to the throng of attendees waiting in line to get in.
Six grueling sets of tennis in the sun Saturday took their toll on McKay Novak.
High-profile labor lawyer Gregory Kamer has been advising District Court administrators behind the scenes regarding the FBI’s investigation into Family Court marshals.
Jay-Z, under increasing pressure to back out of a collaboration with the luxury store Barneys New York after it was accused of racially profiling two black customers, said Saturday that he’s being unfairly “demonized” for just waiting to hear all the facts.
A Utah school teacher is trying to drum up support for a proposal to honor educators who die while protecting students, citing a Nevada teacher’s death in a school shooting this week.
Shots were fired and a man was arrested in North Las Vegas after he broke into a house, stole a car, evaded a police pursuit and invaded another house.
Ah, late October, when the holiday season is on the horizon. Hot cider. Dropping temperatures. And taxes.
For nearly five years, Republicans have struggled to make a scandal stick to President Barack Obama’s White House. One by one, the controversies — with shorthand names such as Solyndra, Benghazi, and Fast and Furious — hit a fever pitch, then faded away.
Sergio Munoz was known around this small desert city to acquaintances as a personable dad, and to police for his long rap sheet.
A Georgia man was convicted of murder Friday in the beating deaths of his father and seven extended family members inside the cramped mobile they all shared, but he was spared a death sentence in a deal attorneys made to avoid a hung jury.
Dozens of Las Vegas Valley residents lined up at the Clark County Government Center amphitheater for an outdoor free food market Saturday morning.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s campaign is offering video chats and lunch with the Republican governor in exchange for monthly donations toward his re-election, a strategy it says is intended to entice smaller donors but one that critics say is in poor taste and could raise the notion of pay for play.
The sights and sounds of hot-air balloons floating over the capital, men in faux Arabian outfits driving tiny cars and the clip clop of horses’ feet on asphalt meant only one thing Saturday: It was the Nevada Day Parade in Cason City.
Jack Bean grew up on Mount Charleston. He loved the open spaces and the freedom that went with life at 11,000 feet.
Marcia Wallace, the voice of Edna Krabappel on “The Simpsons,” has died.
Days of torrential rains have unleashed floods in southeast India that have killed dozens of people and forced the evacuation of more than 70,000 others from hundreds of low-lying villages.
In an era when so many NFL coaches seem drained of personality, it’s cool to see how Pete Carroll handles the Seattle Seahawks. He has a college-type enthusiasm and an ability to think outside the box.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting an independent investigation of the fatal shooting of a popular 13-year-old boy by a sheriff’s deputy in Northern California.
Although motorcycle rental is a boutique attraction compared with the bright lights of the Strip, the chance to open the throttle in the open desert still draws a committed corps of tourists.
Nevada gaming executive John Farahi will be appointed to the governing board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, according to the White House.
Tarantulas are the heaviest, hairiest, scariest spiders on the planet. They have fangs, claws and barbs. They can regrow body parts and be as big as dinner plates, and the females eat the males after mating. But there are many people who call these creepy critters a pet or a passion and insist their beauty is worth the risk of a bite.
When it broke ground seven years ago, the Coyote Springs master plan was still a dream — a vast expanse of desert and the rumor of 150,000 homes to come.
Las Vegas has embraced a higher-density urban lifestyle, if the hundreds of millions of dollars flowing to revitalizing downtown Las Vegas is any measure. But efforts to export the concept to the suburban fringe, even where the population is relatively dense, aren’t working as well.
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