New details emerged Thursday in a case involving a man accused of posing as a police officer, assaulting a woman and stealing thousands of dollars form her apartment near the Strip.
Carson City District Judge James Wilson on Thursday ordered the Nevada Division of Insurance to turn over some records sought by media organizations about who applied to work as state Obamacare insurance navigators.
The Veterans Affairs regional benefits office in Reno was so overwhelmed with disability claims last year that it sent half of them to out-of-state VA offices for decisions, according to a letter Rep. Dina Titus released Thursday from a top VA official.
Despite a forecast of rising temperatures, the Las Vegas Valley experienced widespread rain showers Thursday morning.
Lunar New Year festivities continue in Las Vegas this weekend with major events planned at the Fremont Street Experience and Chinatown Plaza. The Year of the Horse began Friday, with the official observance traditionally lasting about two weeks.
North Las Vegas laid off five department heads Thursday, part of a reorganization that will see the city’s Administrative Services Department folded into other, as yet unnamed city agencies.
A fired assistant manager of a beauty supply warehouse pleaded guilty Thursday to maliciously setting fire to the business, causing more $1 million in damages.
Carmen Solano watched on video as her father struggled for life on the floor of the Clark County jail. She knew how this movie would end, but was helpless to stop it. She and other family members attended a fact-finding hearing Thursday in the case of Luis Solano’s jailhouse death.
Tim Cornett, UNLV’s career leading rusher, has received an invitation to the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough discussed with NBC News’ David Gregory the administration’s foot-dragging on the Keystone XL pipeline. The Sunday interview came in the wake of the State Department’s latest report on the project, which again found no good reason to block construction of an oil pipeline from western Canada to Steele City, Neb.
A government that keeps secrets inevitably tramples the rights of its people. Transparency, on the other hand, helps preserve precious freedoms. These absolute truths unite the interests of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada and the Nevada Policy Research Institute in litigating a critical public records case.
Longtime investment industry executive Mary Chris Gay has been elected to MGM Resorts International’s board of directors, the casino company announced Thursday.
Art-covered boards on abandoned homes — the city of Las Vegas’ latest beautification effort — drew both praise and criticism after their unveiling Thursday.
A pedestrian was transported to University Medical Center in critical condition after being hit by a minivan on the valley’s east side Thursday afternoon.
Some 70 new conventions of at least 500 attendees each are set to come to Las Vegas this year, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Mary-Sarah Kinner, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval’s only communications director-press secretary, announced Thursday she will be leaving Feb. 21 to take a job as deputy national press secretary for StudentsFirst.
Six inspectors and one supervisor will soon be hired to oversee dozens of expected medical marijuana dispensaries, grow houses and laboratories under Nevada’s new medical marijuana law, a state official said Thursday.
Monique Bork, 28, who tried to cover up that her boyfriend shook her 2-month-old son, which led to the boy’s death five years later, was sentenced to 8 to 20 years in prison Wednesday.
Early-stage women entrepreneurs in Las Vegas have a new source for low-cost business loans to apply for after the Tory Burch Foundation and Bank of America launched the $10 million Elizabeth Street Capital initiative.
With a cast toplined by writer-director George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray and John Goodman, it’s the “Ocean’s Eleven” of regular-guys-trying-to-save-priceless-works-of-art-from-Nazis-and-Russians movies. So why isn’t “The Monuments Men” more fun?
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City of Las Vegas park law enforcement is looking for a man who broke into a car on the north side of the valley on Sunday.
Jason Kanigan succeeded with a maverick move. He has received four job offers where he set himself up as the one candidate.
Patricia Becker holds the distinction of being the first woman to serve on the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Sometimes it’s the little things.
Major league baseball player Shane Victorino recalled nearly quitting professional baseball after he was sent to the minor leagues more than a decade ago, while former eight-year NFL player Vernon Fox said he was about to quit pursuing his pro football career after not being drafted out of Fresno State in 2002.
The fate of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s pipeline project is back in the hands of the Nevada Supreme Court.