The man shot by police Monday in east Las Vegas was living in the country illegally, Las Vegas police Undersheriff Jim Dixon said Thursday at a press conference.
The driver of a Thursday morning car crash fled the scene, leaving a motorcyclist behind with serious injuries.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto has scheduled a Twitter townhall to give Nevadans the opportunity to ask housing counselors about buying a home, restoring their credit, modifying their mortgages and going through foreclosure.
A security breach of sensitive information from sealed juvenile delinquent cases at Family Court has left administrators scrambling to notify the people involved and tighten procedures for dealing with those kinds of cases.
It looks like Vons and Albertsons, two dominant store brands in Las Vegas, soon will have the same owner.
A bill that aims to streamline veterans claims was proposed in Congress on Thursday by senators who said the government has failed to uphold its duty to disabled service members for the past 20 years.
A federal jury Thursday convicted a senior county human resources analyst charged in a scheme to steal $824,000 from an auto insurance company. Erik Holman, 49, who has worked for Clark County since 2002, was found guilty of one conspiracy count and 14 wire fraud counts in the scheme to defraud the Wisconsin-based American Family Insurance between October 2005 and April 2009.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture cited Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic show in December for declawing lions and tigers, keeping a snow leopard in a rusty cage and chaining a bobcat in a dangerous way.
NASCAR comes to town this weekend, and there are more reasons to care than just because traffic is going to be a mess. Here are 7 of them.
The Tropicana said Thursday it reached tentative agreement on a new five-year labor contract with Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165, covering some 650 nongaming employees at the Strip resort.
Divers with underwater scooters have descended upon Sydney to film test footage for Google from the bottom of the city’s well-known harbor.
Animal waste pushed out under the front door of a Bullhead City, Ariz., home where authorities removed five young children and 22 dogs from squalor this week.
As many as four Clark County School District schools could have new homes for their sports teams next year in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association.
Of course, Cirque du Soleil wants you to see all of its Las Vegas shows. Knock yourself out, I’m sure they would say.
With so many unabashed animal rights activists in Nevada, it’s a wonder the issue of trapping in the 21st century isn’t more controversial.
Ultimate Gaming and the ownership of Reno’s Peppermill Casino announced an agreement Thursday in which the Station Casinos-owned Internet poker business will serve as the online wagering arm for the Northern Nevada casino and its four sister properties.
Crews from the city of Las Vegas will be repairing a traffic light on Washington Avenue and Buffalo Drive until 6 p.m Thursday. The traffic signal control cabinet was damaged after a car accident, city officials said. The signal will be dark with stop signs or will flash red during the time it is being repaired. It will be treated as an all-way stop.
A man who crashed his motorcycle on state Route 160 last month died from his injuries Wednesday. Robert Neal Parsons, 62, was traveling north on Route 160 Feb. 20 near the intersection with state Route 159 when his motorcycle went off the road into the desert, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s chief of staff told Nevada agency administrators Thursday that the budget that will be developed for the next two-year spending cycle will depart from past practice and instead focus on major policy initiatives.
Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Wednesday that a man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of women riding the subway did not violate state law. Lawmakers are vowing to act quickly to change that.
Las Vegas police are looking for three men involved in a violent January robbery at a convenience story on the northeast side of the valley.
Every year since the West Coast Conference basketball tournament moved to Orleans Arena in 2009, Gonzaga has played Saint Mary’s in the championship game. That is certain to change in this year’s tournament.
Two high-level Las Vegas Sands Corp. executives have resigned from the company in the recent weeks, including the casino operator’s top official for global operations.
The announcement of Las Vegas dates by Queen with Adam Lambert prompts discussion of other bands that successfully replaced a lead singer, either through an untimely death or simply because everyone in the band wasn’t on the same page musically.
A big hat-tip this morning to Wall Street Journal writer Dan Henninger for his piece entitled “Putin Cartarizes Obama, Totally.”
The Las Vegas Fire Department will start providing more ambulance transports to hospitals starting Monday, cutting into the business of private ambulance company American Medical Response.
Two people were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation after an apartment fire Thursday morning.
Pope Francis confessed Thursday that he took the rosary cross of his late confessor from his casket and wears it to this day in a fabric pouch under his cassock. He said he did so telling the late priest, “Give me half your mercy.”
Over the objections of Councilman Bob Coffin, the Las Vegas City Council introduced a bill Wednesday to extend a city moratorium on medical marijuana operations until March 19