All but one of the 25 puppies who survived a Las Vegas Valley pet store arson have received bids in the online adoption raffle offered by The Animal Foundation. Potential pet owners have until 11 a.m. today to purchase tickets.
The illiteracy that plagues Nevada’s public schools is directly related to low high school graduation rates. If children don’t learn to read, they can’t read to learn. The more they fall behind, the more likely they are to drop out.
Even the Duke haters have to admit Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski showed class when he stopped by the Mercer locker room to congratulate the Bears on their victory.
Most softball coaches can find plenty of areas for improvement immediately after games.
UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman suffered a knee injury in training, forcing his scheduled title defense against Lyoto Machida to be postponed.
A plan to let New Jersey casino regulators oversee foreign Internet gambling companies if they shift their operations to Atlantic City moved closer to approval on Monday.
Slot machine giant International Game Technology announced a new multiyear licensing agreement with Sony Pictures Monday that allows the Las Vegas-based company to use the “Wheel of Fortune” brand on its product lines through 2024.
The half-dozen protesters are a part of a nationwide effort with women across the country putting pressure on the GOP to update the law so that the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States might be able to legally live here and perhaps become U.S. citizens.
Some say the best time to see Cathedral Gorge State Park is in the middle of the summer on a moonless night. That’s when thousands of stars emerge over the rugged Lincoln County landscape in the cool, high-desert air.
Most softball coaches can find plenty of areas for improvement immediately after games.
Paul Wolfram got a strikeout to strand the tying run at third base in the bottom of the seventh inning and give Palo Verde’s baseball team an 8-7 road win over Silverado on Monday.
Cara Beatty belted two home runs, and Rachael Turner went 4-for-4 with three doubles and five RBIs on Monday as Palo Verde’s softball team routed host Silverado, 17-6 in five innings.
Mojave’s Lorenzo Guerrero had 40 digs Monday to help the Rattlers to a 21-25, 25-19, 25-19, 23-25, 15-12 boys volleyball victory over visiting Tech in a rematch of last year’s Division I-A state final.
Paramount kicked off the four-day gathering of movie theater owners with appearances by Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Will Arnett and plenty of newly released footage of the studio’s upcoming films.
The 2014 Nightclub & Bar Show’s exhibition starts Tuesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center, led by Jon Taffer, the trade show’s founder and host of Spike TV’s “Bar Rescue” show. Taffer’s trade show, in its 29th year, is bigger than ever.
Bryce McEachern carded a 1-under-par 71 at Canyon Gate on Monday to help Bishop Gorman’s boys golf team win a Southwest League match.
An Oklahoma City girl who says she asks everyone she meets to buy Girl Scout cookies has broken the organization’s decades-old sales record by a margin about the size of a Thin Mint.
Changes to the way Nevada handles people referred for psychiatric evaluations may lessen valley emergency room crowding caused by the mentally ill and also help law enforcement better handle encounters with this population, members of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Behavioral Health and Wellness Council said Monday.
Zions Bancorp, parent company of Nevada State Bank, is alone among 30 major banks to fail a “stress test” by the Federal Reserve.
A fire was in the Nature Preserve at Clark County Wetlands Park led to evacuations Monday afternoon . There were no reports of injuries.
President Barack Obama is calling for an end to a controversial NSA program that critics contend violates the law.
UNLV’s School of Engineering will debut a minor in unmanned autonomous systems, or drones, in the fall. By spring 2015, the program should be available as a continuing education certificate for those seeking a career change.
A newly released air traffic control recording captures the confusion when a Southwest plane landed at the wrong Missouri airport in January. Southwest Airlines Co. said Monday that the captain and co-pilot remain on paid leave pending the outcome of the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation of the Jan. 12 incident.
Tangled in a criminal investigation for potential misuse of taxpayer funds, the Clark County School District’s Adult English Language Acquisition department has been shut down, Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky said in a news conference Monday.
Students at an Illinois middle school are picketing for the right to wear leggings.
UNLV’s football team is hoping to avoid being banned from the postseason as well other penalties. The Rebels’ Academic Progress Rate may be low enough to incur sanctions by the NCAA, when it releases its report in June.
Nightclub operator Victor Drai spent Friday afternoon touring the site of his 65,000-square-foot rooftop nightclub, day-club and pool deck atop the Cromwell, which overlooks the Strip.
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