A California driver accused of striking and killing two road workers in an Interstate 80 construction zone in Northern Nevada could face charges.
The network announced Friday it has signed a deal with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to televise the company’s first commercial space flight. Branson and his two adult children, Holly and Sam, will be the first private passengers to travel into space next year through his company. The launch will be part of a three-hour special “Today” show.
Jonathan Martin’s new attorney says harassment of the Miami Dolphins tackle came from more than one teammate.
Wildlife biologists are conducting a DNA test to determine if a rare native fox has been spotted at Donner Lake near Truckee in the Sierra Nevada.
A 25-year-old Venezuelan who appears on TV in her country and is an accomplished flamenco dancer is the new Miss Universe.
An initial description of the scene would read — especially at this time of year as we celebrate the macabre — like the climax of a horror film.
The largest Veterans Day parade west of the Mississippi River will roll up Fourth Street on Monday, showcasing a new theme as well as a new sponsor.
Alex Graham was in Denver for a recent beer show and attended a Broncos football game, where he enjoyed Colorado’s famed locally brewed craft beers. Graham, sales manager for Las Vegas microbrewery Tenaya Creek, loved that Denver’s football stadium showcased the homegrown brews.
As a kid, Dan Hamilton knew that the practice of law was “in the air and the water” of his hometown of Washington, D.C. Whether members of Congress or lobbyists, most people working on Capitol Hill had law degrees.
She was young at the time, but who could forget the flash of an atom bomb beaming through the windows of their school. It became a local spectacle, entertainment for the children of Goodsprings isolated from the rest of the world by desert and treeless slopes, remembers Bobbie Poole, now 72.
It’s not always easy to figure out if a previous owner died in your home.
Anecdotes are not evidence. We all know this, but it sure is hard to resist turning a story into science. And so it goes with Robert’s question on my favorite topic: Those new flashing yellow left turn signals.
RENO — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $15 million in grants to Nevada to help provide low-cost loans for improvements to drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities.
RENO — The College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno is being recognized again for having one of the 25 best programs in the country for part-time students seeking a master’s in business administration.
A Kingman, Ariz., man who beat, strangled and slit the throat of his mother’s 76-year-old friend has been given a 35-year prison term.
The numbers show that Palo Verde’s defense completely shut down Arbor View on Friday night as the seventh-ranked Panthers clinched the Northwest League title with a 21-7 road win over the No. 4 Aggies.
Rising from the ashes of 9/11, the new World Trade Center tower has punched above the New York skyline to reach its powerfully symbolic height of 1,776 feet and become the tallest building in the country. Or has it?
Money is obviously a great motivator, even for NFL quarterbacks who already have a ton of it. So with his job security being questioned in a contract year, Jay Cutler is playing hero and returning earlier than expected to rescue the Chicago Bears.
Las Vegas firefighters responded to two more fires at the former Fremont Assisted Living Center early Saturday morning — for the second time in 24 hours and the fourth since September.
An Olympic torch took a spacewalk for the first time Saturday, carefully held by two Russian cosmonauts outside the International Space Station as it orbited some 260 miles above Earth.
Pope Francis has greeted hundreds of people in wheelchairs one-by-one — part of a special gathering in which rows of seats were removed from a Vatican auditorium to make room for the disabled visitors.
After surviving two crashes, Don Harten believes God had a plan for him but dying in the Vietnam War wasn’t part of it.
Police are investigating a shooting at an afterhours nightclub, but luckily no one was hurt.
A federal magistrate Friday recommended upholding an indictment accusing Family Court Judge Steven Jones of participating in a decade-long investment fraud scheme.
Two months ago, Joanna Savard had just given birth to her fourth baby when her husband, Marc, turned to her in the hospital and asked, “Are you ready to start on number five?”
Las Vegas police are searching for a man who robbed a convenience store earlier this week.
A jury convicted a doctor of murder early Saturday in the death of his wife six years ago, bringing an end to a trial that became the nation’s latest true-crime cable TV obsession with its tales of jailhouse snitches, forced plastic surgery, philandering and betrayal.
The central Philippine city of Tacloban was in ruins Saturday, a day after being ravaged by one of the strongest typhoons on record, as horrified residents spoke of storm surges as high as trees and authorities said they were expecting a “very high number of fatalities.”
Cycling saved Army veteran Kris Skinner’s life.