Like a lot of new and developing areas in Southern Nevada, there wasn’t much of a traffic foundation laid when folks started moving into Providence.
Almost every time the Dallas Cowboys snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, the scapegoat is quarterback Tony Romo, whether he deserves to be or not.
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — A casino tower at Foxwoods will no longer carry the name MGM Grand.
An unscripted joke that came from a child during a segment of Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show prompted a network apology. A boy joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt
A $1.5 million settlement between the Metropolitan Police Department and the widow of Stanley Gibson was approved Monday by the department’s Fiscal Affairs Committee.
While consumers at all income levels face challenges resulting from the continued roll out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, wealthier Nevadans are expected to experience some unique effects.
Austrian police are seeking witnesses to an unusual theft — of huge amounts of grass, mowed secretly from a farmer’s field. Estimated value: $4,000.
The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson was released from jail Monday after serving nearly two years of a four-year sentence.
A district judge on Monday allowed the Special Public Defender’s office to withdraw from representing Ammar Harris, a self-proclaimed pimp charged in a Strip shooting that left three people dead.
A number of military personnel are turning to the surgical procedure to remove excess fat from around the waist so they can pass the Pentagon’s body fat test, which can determine their future prospects in the military.
Violence, cyberbullying, school woes, obesity, lack of sleep … doctors see connections to these symptoms and online activity. They advise parents to wake up to what their kids are doing online, and start putting limits on what’s allowed.
The official state rock of Nevada gives color to Valley of Fire and Red Rock Canyon and keeps the rain and snow off some pretty important people in Carson City.
Statehood arrived half a heartbeat ago on Oct. 31, 1864, but Nevada truly got its start some 40 million years earlier.
Students return to class at Sparks Middle School on Monday, a week after a fellow seventh-grader fatally shot a popular math teacher and wounded two classmates before killing himself.
Up here in Northern Nevada the talk is whether Las Vegas really should be celebrating Nevada Day, which by the calendar is this Thursday — Halloween — not some day last week due to the political foibles of now Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev.
An off-road racing enthusiast has survived being struck by lightning twice during the same storm in North Texas.
Equipped with coffin-shaped architecture, a collection of 11 restored classic hearses and two cemeteries built in the front yard, the Pahrump home dubbed “Coffinwood” attracts anyone passing by.
Sitting at an event at Caesars Palace almost three years ago, Louisa Voisine stood out from the crowd wearing her elaborately designed, handmade hat.
For many years, Main Street south of Charleston Boulevard was populated with light industrial operations, furniture stores and repair shops. The street is now the lower corner of the 18b Arts District, and recent years have seen a shift toward antiques and arts-related businesses.
The brutal killings of a Chinese immigrant mother and her four young children in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood left neighbors and police officers with gruesome images of the suspect, Mingdong Chen, 25, dripping in blood.
Christmas came early for Red Rock Search and Rescue. First, the city of Las Vegas found affordable new headquarters for the nonprofit group. Then, it was awarded a $35,000 kit that will convert a bus into an ambulance transport vehicle.
Warren and Pat are a retired Summerlin couple dealing with posterior cortical atrophy, a variant of Alzheimer’s disease. Pat’s symptom’s began four years ago with her eyesight, and she eventually had to surrender her driver’s license. Now she’s part of a drug trial at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health that’s researching the use of skin cancer drug bexarotene for Alzheimer’s patients.
For much of his time as a Catholic priest, the Rev. Max Oliva focused his ministry on what would be considered conventional areas, such as a teaching, poor neighborhoods in Tijuana or a native reservation in the often-frigid plains of the Canadian province of Alberta.
A North Las Vegas man with Alzheimer’s disease who went missing on Sunday afternoon has been found.
Billionaire hotel developer Steve Wynn was on hand to toss his support — and the ceremonial first dice — during a sneak preview Sunday of the Downtown Grand.
The drag racing icon from Bell Gardens, Calif., hasn’t lost his touch and even his daughter couldn’t get the best of him Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.