The Nevada secretary of state’s office is looking into an ethics complaint filed against former North Las Vegas Mayor Shari Buck that cites a handful of potential irregularities in her 2013 re-election campaign filings.
Many of the most talked about parts of the Sochi Olympics had nothing to do with athletics. Here are 9 reasons we found ourselves talking about the Games this year that don’t involve the medal count.
Pharrell’s days as a mad hatter may be coming to an end.
An off-duty Las Vegas police officer killed himself in a casino parking garage Friday night.
Fourteen people were displaced Friday night after simultaneous fires destroyed two North Las Vegas homes.
Low-key campaigning marked local Democratic and Republican precinct meetings across Clark County and Nevada on Saturday, launching the 2014 process for selecting party delegates to the county and later the state conventions and shaping each party’s election-year platform.
Crews were still searching Saturday for two men who went missing at Lake Mead.
Online fundraising site Kickstarter says hackers got some of its customer data.
A massive operation that mushroomed through the western Mexican state of Sinaloa last week netted the world’s top drug lord, who was captured early Saturday by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a condominium in Mazatlan, officials from both countries said.
The head of the government’s $70 million wild-horse management program warned last summer that it is headed for financial collapse unless “drastic changes” are made in the decades-old roundup policy she said could be setting U.S. rangeland-improvement goals back 20 years.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with casual American restaurants this week.
Police in Tennessee cannot find the man whose Volkswagen Beetle was recently discovered in Detroit, 40 years after it was stolen.
Ronda Rousey and Sara McMann will be the first Olympic medalists to meet in a UFC title fight when they step into the cage for Saturday night’s main event.
Mexico is on track to overtake Japan and Canada and become the United States’ No. 1 source of imported cars by the end of next year, part of a national manufacturing boom that has turned the auto industry into a bigger source of dollars than money sent home by migrants.
Federal officials announced Friday that many California farmers caught in the state’s drought can expect to receive no irrigation water this year from a vast system of rivers, canals and reservoirs interlacing the state.
A cleaning woman in southern Italy has unwittingly thrown away contemporary artworks that were supposed to be part of an exhibition.
An act of charity may end badly for one donor to a Pennsylvania Salvation Army outlet.
A former wig designer for rapper Nicki Minaj sued the performer Friday, accusing her of walking away from business plans, then making money by selling wigs based on his designs without permission.
At least six mental health patients have been held in the Clark County jail — some for as long as three months — when they should have been placed in mental health group homes.
President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama at the White House Friday over the stern objection of China, which warned the meeting would “inflict grave damages” on the U.S. relationship with the Asian nation.
A bull that escaped a Texas ranch Tuesday and had found its way into a backyard before falling into a swimming pool had to be rescued by firefighters and animal control.
Fennemore Craig Jones Vargas, a leading Las Vegas law firm, has launched a first-of-its-kind practice in Nevada, focusing on legal issues related to the development and commercial use of drones.
In recent years, Nevada has placed an emphasis on speeding up the placement of foster children into permanent homes, which can mean returning them to their parents, placing them with a guardian or matching them with an adoptive family.
The 2008 Tony Award winner for best musical, “In the Heights,” makes its Las Vegas premiere at Las Vegas Academy. And rightly so.
When it comes to the NCAA Tournament this college basketball season, most everyone views the Mountain West in a similar manner: a conference worthy of two berths. Maybe.
Sitting with his dog by his side, Chuck Hall, 38, talks about his passion for leather crafting, turkey hunting and cooking in Dutch ovens. It may come as a surprise because Hall has been blind for almost a decade. Hall attends Transition2, a program that mentors visually impaired or blind participants through Blindconnect at the College of Southern Nevada’s Charleston Campus.
There are a lot of reasons people run: for fun, for health or both. At Bonner Elementary School, they run for education.
In one of the attacks, the pilot became so disoriented that he had to land the aircraft and end his shift, federal prosecutors alleged in court.
The Maloof brothers invited me to their swanky Super Bowl party in the sky, so I rode a ground-floor elevator to the 58th floor of Palms Place, gave my name to a tall gentleman, then boarded a private elevator for the 59th floor penthouse.
In a state known for its high desert and soaring peaks, Nevada’s lowest point is actually a watery location not far from Arizona and California.