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.
There are seemingly endless options through which homeowners must navigate when buying a new garage door: the style, materials and accessories, just to name a few. But perhaps the most important feature that should top the garage door consumer’s list is energy efficiency.
Climbing the corporate ladder requires marketable skills, initiative, creativity and … the right shoes? While the importance of proper footwear may seem obvious for professions that require standing or walking all day, such as waitressing, nursing or cooking, poor shoe choices can also trip you up in an office setting.
Newsracks offering up everything from an Italian-American newspaper to advertisements promoting adult services and entertainment might soon be extinct on the world-famous Strip.
On Saturday night, after he posted a rousing score of 90.75 aboard a snorting hunk of beast called Breakdown to take control of these PBR World Finals at the Thomas &Mack Center, the bull rider J.B. Mauney from North Carolina had some huggin’ to do.
Jumping on boxes, fast presses and pullups, why would anyone bother?
On this morning I did it again. And I did it even after talking with Kelly Thomas Boyers the day before.
Singing from the back of his heels with arms outstretched, Dan Reynolds looked like the letter “T” confronting a stiff wind, said gale spreading the guy’s good cheer like the seeds from a dandelion clock.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie was furious earlier this month when Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak accused the valley’s top cop of working with the officers’ union and an arbitrator to rig the bargaining process and secure police pay raises. Mr. Gillespie was equally angry that Mr. Sisolak did not first call him to share his concerns about the arbitration hearings.
The Special Public Defender’s Office is seeking to withdraw from representing Ammar Harris, a self-proclaimed pimp who is charged in a Strip shooting that killed three people.
Seth Schorr’s vision for the Downtown Grand Las Vegas was always different from the typical resort. The hotel-casino, which blends into the urban core of downtown more than other properties, opened on Sunday as the first guests checked in, restaurants opened, and the race and sports book took its first bet.