About 180 fireworks per second will explode in an eight-minute show over the Strip to herald the start of 2014.
Former Nevada legislator and longtime optometrist Robert Robinson died less than three weeks after being left outside in extreme heat by staff at the Nevada State Veterans Home in Boulder City.
One person was shot near the Rancho Mesa Apartments Monday night, Las Vegas police said.
“Any song in the world,” Bruno Mars challenged the audience to yell up on his opening night in the new Chelsea theater at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. “I just want to play around. Any song in the world …”
Five months after an Esmeralda County man went missing, two men were arrested in connection with his death, according to an Esmeralda County arrest report.
She was a lovesick teenager when she ran away from her mother’s home in the middle of the night to be with Melvyn Sprowson. Five months later, she still is.
How many people around here wish UNLV were playing Arkansas or somebody like that in its bowl game on Wednesday morning? (Ooh! Ooh-Ooh! That was me raising my hand and doing an Arnold Horshack impression.)
If potential judicial candidates are looking for vulnerable incumbents to challenge in next year’s election, they will find plenty in Family Court.
Authorities urged residents to evacuate a small North Dakota town Monday night after a mile-long train carrying crude oil derailed outside of town, shaking residents with a series of explosions that sent flame and black smoke skyward.
The holidays are here, and with them come predictable traditions.
There are, however, many roads and lanes that will be inaccessible for valley residents and visitors soon. That would be thanks to New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas, which is a pretty big annual production. What’s important to remember: avoid the Strip in your car.
Investigators on Monday tried to piece together how a man connected to two bank robberies in the Southeast ended up 1,500 miles away in Phoenix, where he died in a police shootout after another heist.
Two suicide bombings in as many days have killed 31 people and raised concerns that Islamic militants have begun a terrorist campaign in Russia that could stretch into the Sochi Olympics in February. Russian and international Olympic officials insisted the site of the games, protected by layers of security, is completely safe.
A father and daughter are trying to reunite a family with their lost camera, and social media could lead to it being returned to them.
Global Cash Access Inc. has renewed its cash services contract with MGM Resorts International, an agreement one analyst believes could be worth up to $8 million in additional revenue in 2014.
If Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman, 42, was attacked in a bathroom at a busy Summerlin park earlier this month, Las Vegas police haven’t proven it.
The Rebels are on their way to their fourth bowl game. Here’s a quick look at the other three the school has played in.
A vehicle slammed into a house near Eastern Avenue and Oakey Boulevard Monday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
A live-in caregiver has been arrested in the death of his patient in Kingman, Ariz.
Sometimes, the best quotes can be the ones that don’t even have to be taken out of context to make you raise your eyebrows. Here’s our list of the best of 2013.
Five family dogs that wounded a former Bullhead City mayor and killed her husband in a weekend attack will be euthanized. Diane Vick, mayor of the Arizona town from 1999 to 2007, asked that the pets be “put down” after a 10-day quarantine.
Las Vegas Events has extended the deadline to Jan. 14 for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to make its counteroffer on keeping the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas after 2014.
A female pedestrian died after being hit by a car early Monday morning on Boulder Highway, south of Galleria Drive.
Downtown Summerlin is coming. As The Shops at Summerlin rise from the dirt adjacent to Red Rock Resort, the first piece in the Downtown Summerlin puzzle will be set.
Doctors offered a grim assessment of Michael Schumacher’s head injuries Monday, providing no prognosis for the Formula One driving great after his skiing accident in the French Alps.
Nevada was one of several states chosen on Monday as coveted bases for the emerging drone industry, according to an official familiar with the selection. The Federal Aviation Administration was poised to announce the Silver State as one of a half dozen authorized to become test sites for the commercial development of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs.
BOSTON — MGM Resorts International has become the first company to file a final resort casino application in Massachusetts.
An Arizona woman is accused of trying to poison her four children with prescription narcotics drugs, including a teenage daughter who died. Police say she also lured her former husband to her apartment and stabbed him.