Hundreds of the late Assembly Speaker Joe Dini’s friends and politicians of both parties gathered in Yerington last Tuesday to remember a man who worked in Carson City when being a politician wasn’t a bad word.
Add this to the list of bizarre baseball injuries: 51s pitcher Jacob deGrom broke his finger last year helping a neighbor castrate a calf about a week before spring training.
A Las Vegas police and SWAT team response to a domestic dispute call at a house near Cimarron Road and Laredo Avenue ended without incident at 2:45 p.m. Sunday, six hours after a woman fled the house unharmed, a police sergeant said.
One man was sent to the hospital with serious burns after he set himself and his vehicle on fire Sunday night.
What better time to do a play about gender equality than now, when we see acts of insolence and denial across the country. What better way to learn how long the battle has raged than with Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Compleat Female Stage Beauty,” being presented by the College of Southern Nevada.
Dr. Dipak Desai has been ordered transferred into federal custody so that a mental evaluation can be done to determine whether he is competent to accept a plea deal in his health care fraud case stemming from the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
For years, Rick Mills has championed some animals’ cause in his neighborhood. The problem is that some of his neighbors don’t feel he’s been as accommodating to them.
A national group pushing for a hike in the minimum wage will take its campaign to Las Vegas on Monday with its “Give America a Raise” bus tour.
Discussion of possible tax hikes in Henderson have raised questions about the city’s employee pay structure, which has trended higher than neighboring communities.
Eight years, two bankruptcies and one recession later, plans to break ground on the 2,600-acre Park Highlands master planned community near Aliante Parkway and the Las Vegas Beltway are alive and well.
Kevin Sharp, a country music singer who recorded multiple chart-topping songs and survived a well-publicized battle with cancer, has died. He was 43.
A couple of protests took place this past week in Southern Nevada. One made big news.
“Just Do It” has been a familiar Nike slogan for years, but some parents are wondering what it was doing on some of New York’s Common Core standardized English tests.
Captain America continues to vanquish box office foes, triumphing in ticket sales for the third consecutive week and dominating over megastar Johnny Depp’s new movie.
Too many sleepless nights caused by a “pins and needles kind of feeling” in her lower legs had Merideth Hartman so unhinged that she wondered if she’d be better off having her legs cut off below the knee.
Richard Davies’ new book on the sport goes back to the late 1800s and looks at boxing’s growth in the Silver State from the mining towns to the Strip casinos.
A recent report concerning national foodborne illnesses indicates that cases of salmonella have dipped 9 percent.
The South Korean ferry that sank was crippled by confusion and indecision well after it began listing, a radio transcript released Sunday showed, suggesting the chaotic situation may have added to a death toll that could eventually exceed 300.
Criminal proceeding studies show that eyewitness testimonies are no longer considered hard evidence in the courtroom.
The Belgian beer federation is trying to rekindle local interest in the drink with a “Proud of our Beers” public awareness campaign, including a tricolor national flag with the middle yellow turned into a glass of beer.
Marking Christianity’s most hopeful day, Pope Francis made an Easter Sunday plea for peace and dialogue in Ukraine and Syria, for an end to terrorist attacks against Christians in Nigeria and for more attention to the hungry and neediest close to home.
A mountain lion that appeared strong and healthy when it was photographed as it ruled a wilderness park in the middle of Los Angeles has been exposed to rat poison and is suffering from mange, officials said.
A Florida woman who was attacked by a bear last weekend says she doesn’t want bears to be killed by wildlife officials for doing what wild animals do.
The secluded Texas ranch where followers of imprisoned polygamist Warren Jeffs lived in near isolation was seized by state agents on Thursday, nearly six years after FBI agents raided the property and removed hundreds of children amid child sex abuse allegations.
General Mills is scrapping a controversial plan to strip consumers of their right to sue the food company.
Facebook users in the U.S. will soon be able to see which of their friends are in close proximity using a new feature the company is launching on Thursday.
The Nevada Republican Party this year implemented pre-primary endorsements. Here’s the list of candidates who got the nod at the party’s biennial convention last weekend.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2, shuts down 215 in northwest Las Vegas
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin