Four pedestrians were involved in a car accident near Harmon Avenue and Mountain Vista Street Monday morning.
The city of Henderson is seeking entries for its “What Makes Henderson Great” photo contest. To enter, people can take photos of things such as landscapes, landmarks, friends, animals, sports or portraits.
Events this week include a living Christmas tree performance, WaterDay Street Market and a Winter Festival at McDoniel Elementary School.
Like most kids, you love it when someone reads one of your favorite Christmas stories aloud. You probably enjoy singing Christmas carols, too. “The Family Christmas Treasury” will help you do both by including the words to some of those songs you love, along with several holiday story favorites.
Teen entrepreneur Houston Gunn’s visit to sign copies of his book “Schooled for Success: How I Plan to Graduate from High School a Millionaire” is among literary highlights this week.
Paula Jones, who recently retired from working in real estate, was inspired to write “Dalton’s Dream” as a follow-up to compiling her family history into a book.
A sea eagle in Australia steals a camera and captures a 70-mile journey to the middle of nowhere, where the bird poses for a few selfies.
Five of 10 people charged in a scheme to clean up negative credit ratings by duping credit rating agencies with forged police reports have struck plea deals with prosecutors.
Health-insurance reform’s tentacles are reaching into Southern Nevada’s commercial real estate market.
Las Vegas Valley residents gathered Sunday night to commemorate World AIDS Day at UNLV.
First Friday, with its ever-changing layout, themes and activities, can be confusing and overwhelming, even for regular attendees.
The officers involved in an incident where a man fell to his death from a highway overpass last year were formally cleared of any criminal charges Monday by prosecutors reviewing the case.
A man who mugged a stranger in New York City more than three decades ago found the victim on Facebook recently and apologized.
With one month left in 2013, Macau’s casino industry already has blown away its 2012 record gaming revenue production.
Traditional classroom settings are not made for everyone. Some children have busy schedules, while others do better in an isolated environment.
When Roberta C. Cartwright, the namesake of Cartwright Elementary School, became Clark County’s Teacher of the Year in 1986, she was known as a person who was unafraid of joy in her classroom.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in catching three armed men involved in a robbery on Nov. 20 near Maryland Parkway and Karen Avenue.
After phoning for help in resuscitating her baby, a 25-year-old woman on a plane that crashed in remote southwest Alaska led searchers hampered by cold and fog to the crash site.
Centennial Hills’ Ronemus Drive, gateway to the undisclosed location that houses Las Vegas’ city archives, is almost purposefully unassuming.
If you’re going to have a heart attack, perhaps Las Vegas is the best place to do it. Firefighterssave 30 percent of cardiac arrest patients, and the national average is 5 percent.
Read about news and events happening in the Sunrise/Whitney area.
UNLV TO USE $10 MILLION DONATION TO EXPAND LITERARY PROGRAMS
It’s not cheap to get your name on a building, institute, center or program at UNLV (or any other university); nor should it be.
The costly, counterproductive war on drugs has turned the United States into incarceration nation. According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, 716 of every 100,000 people in this country are locked up, by far the highest rate in the world, well ahead of such beacons of freedom as Rwanda, Cuba and Russia.
Master tenor Andrea Bocelli describes Vegas the way other people describe mountains and Superman.
It’s been happening slowly, over time, but 2014 will be the year we see exponential growth in the Las Vegas tech community, experts say.