It took longer than Kevin Olekaibe had hoped for the NCAA to approve him to play this season. But the senior guard’s arrival came just in time to help UNLV escape another exhibition embarrassment.
Green Valley’s boys soccer players didn’t want high-scoring Liberty forward Danny Musovski to beat them on Tuesday. So when the game went to overtime, the Gators made sure Musovski wouldn’t have a chance.
Foothill girls volleyball coach Krysta Ortiz told her players that a win wouldn’t be good enough on Tuesday. She wanted a big win.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday approved an ordinance that will give University Medical Center an advisory governing board.
A congressional field hearing set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Las Vegas City Hall will focus on how effective the Department of Veterans Affairs regional benefits office in Reno is for serving veterans in Southern Nevada.
The digging has been halted, the hearing canceled and witnesses released from their subpoenas. An eight-member commission will consider a settlement proposed by Carolyn Edwards’ attorney behind closed doors and then vote on it in public.
Tiffany Ward is the mother of 6-year-old Brazyl, who was hit by a car while crossing a southwest valley street on Thursday. She has spent the last five days at University Medical Center at the bedside of her daughter, whose condition remained critical this week.
A motorcyclist is dead after a collision in the south valley Tuesday night.
Clark County commissioners talked Tuesday about ways to rescue the shooting complex, but didn’t approve any new ways to save money. The facility lost $1.1 million in fiscal year 2013.
Dozens of fish played in an aquarium installed in the back of a customized sea-blue Toyota Highlander, an ode to SpongeBob SquarePants. Yes, automotive dreams can come true.
Disappointing. Difficult. Atrocious. That’s how local insurance brokers describe the first month of open enrollment through the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange.
Scammers are using Metropolitan Police Department images in hopes of tricking people into giving them money, Las Vegas police said.
Michelle Knight was held for a decade in Ariel Castro’s Cleveland home; chained and raped by her captor, who struck her with a barbell to force a miscarriage when she became pregnant and snapped her dog’s neck after it tried to protect her, Knight said in a taped interview on the “Dr. Phil” show.
A teacher said Tuesday that he crawled to escape a gunman at Los Angeles International Airport and used a sweatshirt as a tourniquet after his leg was shattered during last week’s deadly shooting.
The country’s two major political parties are dirty words to a growing number of voters across the political spectrum. And the more elected Republicans and Democrats put themselves and their parties before their constituents and their country, the more voter backlash can be expected.
As the long-since-departed “South Park” character Chef would say: “There’s a time and place for everything, and it’s called college.” Indeed, the latest protest by the Culinary union smacks of a bunch of college kids rallying for the cause du jour, thinking it will be really cool to get arrested.
An avid outdoorsman, paralyzed in a hunting accident Saturday, was granted by doctors the choice to essentially end his life by shutting off his life support. He died Sunday.
Pity the poor sage grouse. The ground-dwelling bird doesn’t like to fly, so the creature’s nests amount to fast food for predators such as ravens and coyotes. The more the sage grouse population declines across Nevada (the government’s contributions to those declines notwithstanding), the greater the chance it will be listed as a threatened or endangered species.
Bill Briare Family Park, 650 N. Tenaya Way, owes its name to one-time Las Vegas Mayor William H. “Bill” Briare. He was known for his enthusiasm about Las Vegas’ potential and was always in the public eye.
With crowds building for Tuesday’s planned 10 a.m. public opening of the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park, Calif., the decision was made to open the property an hour early. Station Casinos developed the resort and will manage the property for the tribe under a seven-year contract.
The 25-year-old man accused of five killings during a Mother’s Day weekend killing spree in Northern Nevada has pleaded not guilty a third time after rejecting a plea deal that would have spared him the death penalty.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that he smoked crack “probably a year ago” when he was in a “drunken stupor,” but he refused to resign despite immense pressure to step aside as leader of Canada’s largest city.