A 39-year-old U.K. woman can hear for the first time in her life after having an operation to install cochlear implants.
A school district and a girl represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota have settled a lawsuit that claimed school officials violated the student’s constitutional rights by viewing her Facebook and email accounts without permission.
Taco Bell is name-dropping an unlikely clown to promote its new breakfast menu — Ronald McDonald. The fast-food chain will begin airing ads Thursday that feature everyday men who happen to have the same name as the McDonald’s mascot known for his bright red hair and yellow jumpsuit.
Mother Nature has no mercy for reporters doing live shots during crazy storms. And that’s just what two Canadian meteorologists found out on Wednesday.
Ronald Holmes, the father of NBA player Shabazz Muhammad, was sentenced in Las Vegas to 37 months in federal prison Thursday in a $2.5 million mortgage fraud scheme.
Nevada will try to draw more Millennials and young Generation X travelers to the state after receiving a travel research report that shows they take more trips than typical American leisure travelers and baby boomers.
A Montana woman was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for killing her husband of eight days by pushing him from a cliff in Glacier National Park while they argued about her second thoughts about the marriage.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has sided with the Clark County assessor in a property tax dispute over the value of improvements at Sun City Summerlin.
A brain cancer survivor who ran a race in a tutu while going through chemotherapy was shocked to find a photo of herself being mocked in SELF magazine recently.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s distinctive hairstyle is the ‘do of the day on the Internet, thanks to a viral report that every male university student in the capital is now under orders to get a buzz just like it. But it appears the barbers of Pyongyang aren’t exactly sharpening their scissors.
A survey of states shows that Nevada is among the states that relies the least on the federal government for help.
New Kids on the Block’s Vegas stint will consist of more than just shows, as there will be daytime pool parties and late night after-parties hosted by the band.
Hank Finkel might not have been a star in the NBA, but he was a great player at Dayton, which has made it to this year’s Sweet 16. Plus, he had a name that is hard to forget.
Sue Lowden, now running for lieutenant governor, is courting the same disaster that killed her 2010 primary election.
A hammerhead shark dragged a college student in his kayak up the Atlantic coast for a two-hour “South Florida sleigh ride” that the kayaker taped with a head-mounted camera and posted on YouTube.
Tornadoes touched down during storms in Northern California, including one twister near Sacramento that damaged a dozen homes and left a path of debris about 300 yards long.
By now just about everyone in Nevada knows about the latest examples of Harry Reid getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Vikings, topical urinal screens, vaporized alcohol shots and Star Trek beer, oh my. The 2014 Nightclub & Bar Show featured a slew of new products this week that drew crowds and made some innovative entrepreneurs very busy.
Las Vegas police are investigating what they say are a string of connected robberies and a car theft that happened near the Strip early Thursday morning.
Elijah Thomas, one of the best high school juniors in the nation, included UNLV on his list of potential college destinations. The No. 6-ranked basketball player in the class of 2015 released 10 schools he’s still considering.
An Ohio firefighter used a school fire drill as an opportunity to propose to his girlfriend, a counselor at the school.
Passenger counts at McCarran International Airport climbed for the fifth straight month in February with international arrivals continuing to lead the way.
Hints about the lost Malaysian jetliner piled up Thursday, but there was precious little chance to track them down. Bad weather cut short the hunt for possible debris fields from the aircraft as satellite data revealed hundreds more objects that might be wreckage.
Las Vegas firefighters responded Wednesday morning to fires at two vacant homes believed to be occupied by squatters.
If nothing else, the 2014 class of inductees to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Nevada Entertainer/Artist Hall of Fame demonstrate how diverse the arts are in Nevada.
Dwayne Polee II thought about signing with the Rebels out of high school, about competing for the program for which his father averaged 8.4 points and 3.5 rebounds during the 1981-82 season.
“Looking at bargains from a purely commercial point of view someone is always cheated; but looked at with the simple eye both seller and buyer always win.” — David Grayson, pen name for Ray Stannard Baker, (1870-1946), American journalist, “Adventures in Contentment”
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid confirmed Wednesday he is preparing a bill to expand the reservation of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians north of Las Vegas.
A visibly energized President Barack Obama held a nearly hourlong audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, expressing his great admiration for the pontiff and inviting him to visit the White House.