Thanks to the fourth- graders at Beatty Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada has the beautiful Vivid Dancer Damselfly as its official state insect, not the ugly “mosquito” or “barfly” that state legislators humorously suggested.
The Nevada Republican Party will endorse candidates during the primary in a policy shift designed to increase the party’s influence at a time when contenders get most support and cash from outside groups, individuals and pricey advisers.
Rep. Dina Titus, a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, sent Gov. Brian Sandoval a letter Thursday urging him to launch an investigation into reports of patient mistreatment at the Nevada State Veterans Home in Boulder City.
The female Spring Valley High School teacher suspended while police investigated the appropriateness of her relationship with a male student has resigned.
One person is dead after a motorcycle collided with a car in Henderson Thursday night.
A dog died in an east valley house fire Thursday afternoon.
Russell Shields, 44, of Kingman, Ariz., was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday in the July 2011 shooting death of Alberto Orosco.
The state owes $710,000 to the Clark County School District for 5 percent pay raises given under its order to school counselors, psychologists, speech pathologists, and library media specialists.
In the wake of recently found deficiencies by federal officials at the Las Vegas Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, Nevada officials said Thursday that they are closing a recently opened clinic at the hospital.
An awestruck Army veteran still limping from wounds he suffered in Afghanistan four years ago doesn’t consider himself a hero although that’s what everybody called him Thursday when he accepted the keys to his new home in southwest Las Vegas.
North Las Vegas police say they are looking for two would-be robbers who tried to steal a 79-year-old woman’s purse outside a casino earlier this month.
The race and sports book subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. accused of inadequate supervision of its employees that led to one of its top executives accepting illegal bets will pay a record $5.5 million fine under a settlement unanimously approved Thursday by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
The legal battle over Onion the dog ended Thursday, nearly two years after he mauled and killed a young Henderson boy.
Scott Thorson, a former lover of Liberace who was the subject of an HBO film on the pianist’s life, has been sentenced to eight to 20 years in Nevada state prison for failing another court-ordered drug test while on probation for burglary and identity theft convictions.
An attorney for convicted former Nevada political powerbroker Harvey Whittemore pleaded for leniency from a Nevada State Bar panel considering Whittemore’s disbarment over illegal campaign contributions.
Clark County code inspectors have shut down the popular Roos-N-More zoo in Moapa, 55 miles north of Las Vegas.
The clock is ticking down for the appointment of a temporary president for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Call center company Sitel Worldwide Corp. formally opened on Thursday a new location at 750 Pilot Road to handle a contract with the AAA clubs for Arizona and Nevada, Northern California and Utah.
The double toilet in Sochi may have captured the Internet’s attention this week, but it’s not the only quirky Olympic thing to go viral this week. Here are five of our favorites.
Retired Boyd Gaming Corp. president turned academic officer Don Snyder, 66, will be recommended by Dan Klaich, chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, to fill the acting president position UNLV, according to a memo sent by Klaich to the state’s Board of Regents.
Plaza Bank on Thursday posted a profitable fourth-quarter and 2013 as the regional bank continues to grow its loan, noninterest checking and money market accounts business in Southern Nevada.
A sober-looking Justin Bieber was released from jail Thursday following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence, driving with an expired license and resisting arrest.
A motorcyclist is dead after colliding with a car on Western Avenue near Sahara Avenue.
One heckuva story is sitting inside the piles of data held by the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System. We know this because the agency that oversees the state’s pension fund is determined to hide that data from the public — so much so that it has defied a Nevada Supreme Court order to release information on the taxpayer funded benefits provided to government retirees.