UNLV posted the best second-round team score and moved up from sixth to third place at the Mountain West women’s golf championships at Rancho Mirage, Calif. Friday.
Junior Carl Jonson fired a 5-under-par 66 and fellow junior Nicholas Maruri came in at even par 71 in his first round of the season to help UNLV to an opening-round 4-under 280 in the Mountain West men’s golf championships Friday at Tucson, Ariz.
Rain forced a postponement of Friday’s Mountain West women’s tennis championship quarterfinals at the Sierra Sport & Racquet Club in Fresno, Calif.
Connecticut high school student Maren Sanchez was fatally stabbed in the halls of Jonathan Law High School after rejecting a prom invitation.
Federal safety regulators in Northern Nevada are investigating an explosion that killed a worker at a chemical company in Sparks.
Gerald McNulty, a longtime Las Vegas resident, wanted solar energy for years. The former construction professional had solar energy powering his horse stalls when he decided to look at the solar to power his home. He researched his options and decided to work with American Patriot Solar Community, a locally owned company.
Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick said Friday she has no plans to launch a legislative inquiry into the recent dispute involving Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
MGM Resorts International named Anton Nikodemus as chief operating officer of the company’s new regional division.
The growth of Las Vegas’ technology community was evident Wednesday night at the Technology Business Alliance of Nevada awards. Where the awards dinner two years ago was held in a country club, 2014’s ceremony took place in a nightclub.
Cheryl Ann Morrison and daughter Season Morrison are charged with deliberately tripping a government trap meant for a black bear Lake Tahoe.
UNLV’s Erick Fedde is pitching like the first-round draft pick he is projected to be. He will try to break the Rebels’ five-game skid in a key home series against New Mexico that begins tonight.
An ex-Marine was sentenced to death Thursday for the murder of naval officer, Amanda Snell in 2009.
For a movie about three intelligent women — well, two intelligent women and an amiable assemblage of curves played by model Kate Upton — “The Other Woman” is disappointingly, disturbingly dumb.
The Hualapai Tribe, which owns the horseshoe-shaped Grand Canyon Skywalk on the northwestern Arizona reservation, and the family of the Las Vegas businessman who developed it have reached a financial settlement.
Return to sender: In the chaotic aftermath of the capsized South Korean ferry accident, cadavers are being sent to the wrong families due to misidentification.
A Nevada company says it plans to revive passenger train excursions between Santa Fe, N.M., and the nearby northern New Mexico town of Lamy.
A man who police accuse of fatally shooting someone two years ago was found in San Diego and brought back to Las Vegas on Thursday.
Nevada State Bank, a subsidiary of Zions Bancorp., on Friday reported loan growth of $33.1 million for the first quarter of 2014. The bank’s year-over-year loan growth was $233.9 million, and the company posted a net income of $2.3 million. That extended a positive trend of quarterly earnings since 2010, according to a news release.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with steakhouses and seafood restaurants this week.
A rollover crash closed U.S. Highway 95 southbound lanes just north of Las Vegas on Friday morning. Nevada Highway Patrol responded to U.S. 95 just south of Corn Creek Road, which is between Kyle Canyon and Lee Canyon roads, around 10:30 a.m.
Swedish death rockers Ghost blow into Eastside Zia Records on Friday before the show at House of Blues.
25 cats were found in plastic bags hanging from trees in a New York City suburb. Some killed with blows to the head.
One of the Vegas’ biggest resident DJs has announced a new album inspired the city he holds court in throughout the year.
Old public television video shows Las Vegas Hall-of-Famer hitting the outside corner as a 19-year-old.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie described his officers as dedicated day-in, day-out service to make Las Vegas and Southern Nevada a safer, better place to live in Metro’s commendation ceremony Thursday.
You saw it coming. Or we did. Or he did. Or something. Anyway, we’re talking about Eric Church calling his new album “The Outsiders,” and coming at country stardom with an outside view that makes him even bigger than a red-hot genre, without abandoning it altogether. He’s the ultimate insider outsider.
“Think about it, what would happen if your electricity, gas, water — even the ability to make a phone call — were stopped for any length of time, say for three days, or maybe even a week? Suppose you can’t get to the grocery store, and even if you could, you would find that it’s not open?” Those questions were raised by Ward 4 Las Vegas City Councilman and Deputy Mayor Stavros Anthony during an interview.
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