Two more Clark County district judges, Gloria O’Malley and James Bixler, have decided against filing for re-election to new six-year terms, aides said Tuesday.
Greg Maddux could break a 22-year-old record Wednesday, though he won’t become the first unanimous selection in the history of the baseball writers’ Hall of Fame ballot.
Brian Brannman, the chief executive officer of University Medical Center, is resigning his post for an executive job with Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican, which has three acute-care hospitals in Southern Nevada.
A story on Tuesday about U.S. Sen. Dean Heller misstated the name of his younger daughter, Emmy.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to uphold a lower court ruling establishing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of as many as 16,000 people subjected to default judgments by a payday loan company.
CG Technology, formerly Cantor Gaming, and the Nevada Gaming Control Board have reached a tentative settlement over allegations the bookmaker was careless in its oversight of employees.
Professional rodeo’s most prominent cowboys — led by 11-time world all-around champion Trevor Brazile — say they are defecting from the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to form their own organization, but they are coy about their views on the future of rodeo in Las Vegas.
A 27-year old man died after a motorcycle crash Tuesday morning in a parking lot on Decatur Boulevard, near Flamingo Road, Las Vegas police said.
Three players for UTEP’s men’s basketball team bet on at least one sporting event, a university official said Tuesday, and they are no longer enrolled at the school.
A Nevada Department of Corrections inmate died Sunday after being hospitalized for a medical condition last week, prison officials said Tuesday.
An audit shows that the Nevada Division of Minerals seldom inspects the 430 geothermal and 111 oil wells in the state and in one instance relied on an email from the oil producer that he had performed a required test on blowout prevention equipment.
Supreme Court justices Mark Gibbons and Kris Pickering wasted no time Monday filing for re-election to new six-year terms immediately after the secretary of state’s office opened at 8 a.m.
James Smack, the Republican national committeeman from Fallon, said Tuesday he’s stepping down from the post in mid-February to spend more time with his family
For three months, the Affordable Care Act has been all about website and enrollment glitches, with the former often the cause of the latter. Make no mistake, these problems haven’t gone away just because the calendar turned to Jan. 1, 2014 — when Obamacare officially became the so-called law of the land. But the new year was supposed to bring a new phase of the law: people actually having health insurance.
The first roadside campaign signs that went up last month were a dead giveaway, but the incumbent judges and attorneys filing for judicial positions makes it official: It’s an election year.
A 15-year-old girl was transported to University Medical Center Tuesday morning after being hit by a car in North Las Vegas.
The state insurance exchange on Tuesday reported gains in paid enrollments. As of Saturday, 10,547 Nevadans had signed up for and paid premiums on new coverage through the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange. That was up from 6,219 paid enrollments as of Dec. 23.
Yahoo’s out to save the news and magazine industries in its own technical way. At the tech giant’s keynote Tuesday afternoon at the 2014 International CES, Yahoo management made a series of content-centered announcements that should make news junkies very happy.
Clark County commissioners face a key decision on Jan. 21 — whether to raise the sales tax to pay for more police officers.
Three flu-related deaths in Clark County have been reported, and the Southern Nevada Health District is urging residents to get their annual flu shots.
The Clark County Commission has selected John Entsminger to head the valley’s largest water utility.
A defense official said four U.S. Air Force crew members have been killed in helicopter crash in England. A U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in a coastal area of eastern England on Tuesday night, an official said.
One person is dead and three others are injured following an avalanche in the backcountry near Vail, Colo. Eagle County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jessie Mosher says the slide happened at around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in East Vail Chutes, an area between Vail Mountain and Vail Pass.
It’s time for comfort food to heal the wounds of the hectic holiday season, and soup to warm the soul. And what, after all, is more comforting than a bowl of soup?
A close vote in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday kept alive the safety net hopes of more than a million Americans whose federal unemployment benefits expired last month, but more heavy lifting is ahead to determine whether they will get checks again.
A teenager is in critical condition Tuesday morning after being struck by an automobile in east Las Vegas.
Judy Bayley, namesake of the Judy Bayley Theatre at UNLV, was once known as the first lady of gambling, and it’s a title she earned by reinventing herself and having a hand in many changes in the valley.
NBC’s comic institution “Saturday Night Live,” criticized recently for a lack of diversity, said on Monday that it hired Sasheer Zamata — a 27-year-old black woman from Indianapolis — for its repertory cast when new episodes start again later this month.