Alex Arias had 24 points and 13 rebounds on Friday as Durango’s boys basketball team surprised visiting Arbor View, 71-69.
Las Vegas police say they’re looking to hire new recruits, according to a statement released Wednesday.
A national environmental group filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday morning to block the Southern Nevada Water Authority from siphoning groundwater from across rural eastern Nevada. The lawsuit specifically cites threats to rare and in some cases protected species.
Executives with Wynn Resorts Ltd. have sold thousands of shares this month as its stock is trading near a 52-week high, leading analysts to examine their ratings and price targets.
At the state dinner last night for the French head of state, Mrs. Obama wore a designer dress valued at $12k.
It was a sight to make a classic car lover weep: A gaping sinkhole opened beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky and swallowed eight prized cars like they were toys, piling them in a heap amid loose dirt and concrete fragments.
Las Vegas police are looking for information on two suspects who robbed a business at gunpoint near Sahara Avenue and Sloan Avenue on Jan. 23. The robbers held guns to an employee’s face while demanding money, police said.
A “panic release” in November saved 11,0000 fish, but another 21,000 fish died. A similar incident killed 40,000 trout in August. And in the end, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service decided to discontinue the stocking program that previously provided Lake Mohave with hundreds of rainbow trout per month.
Valley Hospital Medical Center will no longer provide maternity services starting April 17.
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday without Sen. Dean Heller’s support to raise the government’s $17.2 trillion limit on borrowing.
MGM Resorts International plans to use its existing hotel-casino parking facilities bordering and neighboring the 19,500-seat arena site to provide parking for the $350 million venue.
Both the 1987 original and this week’s remake include sensationalistic headlines from the near future. Here’s a look at how the two futures stack up.
Certain local theaters are offering two-for-one admission to the unlikely love story this weekend.
Three members of the UNLV athletic marketing department resigned Tuesday, athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy confirmed Wednesday.
A federal lawsuit accuses White Pine County District Attorney Kelly Brown of defaming and violating the civil rights of one of his ex-assistant prosecutors, who says he forced her from her job in retaliation for blowing the whistle on alleged mismanagement of a county fund.
Barbie is flaunting her frame in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’s 50th anniversary issue. She’ll be featured alongside supermodels like Christie Brinkley and Brooklyn Decker as part of a campaign called “unapologetic.”
Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura is taking his fight to be on the ballot in this year’s election to the Nevada Supreme Court.
Legislation to raise the federal debt limit and prevent a crippling government default cleared Congress on Wednesday with an awkward assist from top Senate Republican leaders who were forced into a politically treacherous vote engineered by tea party favorite Ted Cruz.
Websites owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp. were still offline Wednesday, more than 24 hours after they were apparently taken over by unknown hackers.
Hard rockers Queens of the Stone Age are hitting Vegas on Thursday, and they’ve prefaced their visit by taking a shot at one of the city’s most popular bands.
Iouri Podladtchikov beating out American Shaun White for the gold medal on the halfpipe got us thinking — what are the biggest upsets in Winter Olympic history? Here are seven of them.
The Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling said Wednesday it has gained support from 39 faith-based and conservative organizations.
People the world over responded in heartwarming fashion after a Missouri mom started a Facebook page to wish her son happy birthday.
A Las Vegas city councilman and the director of a Northern Nevada food bank were named on Wednesday to a new National Commission on Hunger.
Spring break travel data show Las Vegas is increasingly a destination for spring breakers.
The woman who was killed in a car accident in the western part of the valley Tuesday night has been identified.
The anticipated remake of “RoboCop” is technically better than the 1987 film, but the fun is gone as it stuggles with ethics.
Former News Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was convicted Wednesday of accepting bribes in exchange for helping businessmen secure millions of dollars in city work, including after Hurricane Katrina.
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter says he will retire after this season, ending one of the greatest careers in the history of baseball’s most storied franchise.
Crazy is back on the marquee of the Crazy Horse Too. Michael Galam, the new owner of the once mob-connected club, couldn’t use the term “crazy horse” when he re-opened it in May because the owners of another Las Vegas strip club, Crazy Horse III, had filed suit claiming the legal rights to the term belonged to them.