UNLV has developed a troubling tendency to play down to the level of many opponents over the last few years. That trend was bucked on Friday night as UNLV put an early 18-0 run on Sacred Heart en route to an 82-50 victory.
Clair Haycock, who was a former gaming commissioner during the 1970s, has died. He was 84 years old.
The Chelsea, the eye-popping new venue at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, was designed to account for, even facilitate, social interaction without ruining the night for those who just want to watch the show.
One of two 17-year-old boys who ran away Thursday from the Spring Mountain Youth Camp on Mount Charleston has been apprehended in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
For the Las Vegas Bowl, Fresno State vs. USC is a dream matchup. Or it should be, as long as both teams really want to be here.
An Oklahoma man proposed to his girlfriend last week while an officer tried to arrest him on two outstanding warrants.
Imagine sipping a cocktail at a Kerry Simon rooftop bar, overlooking — Carson Avenue?
Karina Taylor cried as she read old Facebook messages from Kevin Cooney, the man she once said she would marry. Cooney had confided in Taylor that he wanted out from under the influence of his mother, Linda Cooney.
The tiny Sierra Oeste community is a dangerous place to live. But Las Vegas police Sgt. Phillip Merges is hoping to change that with help from a lot of people.
CARSON CITY – A former Capitol Police sergeant who engaged in sexual harassment and failed to respond to harassment by other officers directed at a female colleague has had his firing upheld by a state hearing officer.
The year 2013 brought out a slew of new entrepreneurs, among them a few who wanted to open franchises in the Las Vegas area.
A federal judge struck down Utah’s same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
The Nevada Department of Corrections has reported two more inmate deaths this week, making nine such cases since October.
The man who was arrested in July for the 1986 killing of a 7-year-old Las Vegas girl has been formally charged with murder.
A steamy bowl of homemade soup is the perfect meal during these short winter days or long winter nights, and all soups at Cafe Zupas are served with bread and a chocolate-dipped strawberry.
Nevada authorities say they’re trying to determine whether a California man’s anger over complications he suffered from a 2010 surgery prompted him to go on a shooting rampage at a urologist’s office, killing one doctor and critically wounding another before committing suicide.
We took to social media to find the places in Nevada that best display what’s great about our state. Here’s what you had to say.
A judge on Friday ordered a California hospital to keep a girl declared brain dead on life support following what was supposed to be a routine tonsillectomy.
With yet more Affordable Care Act deadlines at hand, it’s time for the increasingly desperate Obama administration to throw some more Hail Mary passes.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada was released from a Washington, D.C., hospital on Friday after doctors diagnosed him as “exhausted,” a spokesman said.
Onion the dog has won a reprieve from the Nevada Supreme Court just in time for Christmas.
Jose Luis Barrios-Aguilar, the 39-year-old Las Vegas man who tried to kill himself by injecting dog insulin, was shot in the leg by police officers on Monday night after he apparently tried to reach for his shotgun, Clark County Assistant Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in a press conference on Friday.
Travelers driving from Southern California or Nevada to Utah may see more delays in coming months thanks to highway construction projects.
The question of what to do with the unfinished Harmon Hotel has now been put off until Jan. 17.
Leroy Fuller, a Salvation Army volunteer for over 15 years, was saddened and confused when a couple took his kettle with about $200 in it. “It made me feel upset,” he said. “I think they feel bad about what they did. They’ve got to feel bad, unless they have no heart.”
The simplest way to view the bowls is to look at impact players, so here are five (quarterbacks not included) who should play big roles in winning or losing wagers.
MGM Resorts International won a license for a new casino near the nation’s capital in Maryland on Friday. A state commission voted 5-2 in favor of MGM’s proposal to build a $925 million resort near the Potomac River at National Harbor.