A man died after being shot early Thursday in an apartment complex in North Las Vegas, according to a release by North Las Vegas police.
Legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian was in stable condition Thursday afternoon after being admitted to Valley Hospital late the night before. Doctors still are trying to determine what caused the 83-year-old coach to take ill.
Less than 24 hours after Top Rank chairman Bob Arum’s tirade against the MGM Grand for posting signs for Floyd Mayweather’s upcoming May 3 fight against Marcos Maidana in competition with Saturday’s Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley rematch, the MGM removed most of the Mayweather signs from the property.
A hole in the ice at the Maverik Center forced postponement of the Wranglers-Utah Grizzlies game with 6:12 remaining in the second period Wednesday. This would have never happened if the game were played on a pond, or in Saskatchewan.
General Motors has suspended two engineers with pay in the first disciplinary action linked to its delayed recall of more than 2 million small cars for a deadly ignition switch problem.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has crunched data to see which jobs have the highest concentration in each state relative to the rest of the U.S., and to no one’s surprise, the gaming industry came out on top in Nevada.
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said institutional reform centered on more training and tools for officers is needed to curb the “patterns of excessive force” that were turned up by a civil investigation of the Albuquerque Police Department.
After rebranding itself as “the first TV home for the social media generation,” the cable channel has announced a new batch of shows — full of “likes” and viral videos — that should sound truly horrifying, at least for anyone older than, say, 25.
Here’s who’d we like to see singing with Nirvana as the band gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Nevada’s food and agricultural exports reached a milestone in 2013 with sales surpassing 2012 sales by $19.5 million, the state Department of Agriculture reported Thursday.
A 34-year-old man accused of violently shaking a 2-month-old baby in 2006, causing injuries that led to the boy’s death five years later, has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
The cover of next month’s Rolling Stone magazine features “Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus nude with a tattoo of the U.S. Constitution signed by John Hancock across her back.
Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman as the host of “The Late Show,” the network confirmed on Thursday.
Las Vegas police are set to pay $500,000 to the mother of Stanley Gibson, the unarmed, disabled veteran shot and killed by an officer in 2011. The settlement, which hasn’t been finalized, brings Metro’s total payout for the Gibson shooting to $2 million.
Spring break is right around the corner for the Clark County School District. Instead of struggling to find a babysitter this weekend, we have six suggetions of how to kick-start the kids’ week off.
Family Dollar said Thursday that will cut jobs and close about 370 underperforming stores as it tries to reverse sagging sales and earnings. The discount store operator will also permanently lower prices on about 1,000 basic items.
Beijing artist Liang Kegang returned from a business trip in southern France with well-rested lungs and a small item of protest against his home city’s choking pollution: a glass jar of clean, Provence air. He put it up for auction before a group of about 100 Chinese artists and collectors late last month, and it fetched 5,250 yuan ($860).
“Nevada in spring puts a spring in the soul; Renewal has scented the air” – poet Waddie Mitchell.
The SWAT officer who fatally shot a man Tuesday has been named by Las Vegas police.
The shelves are heavy with Las Vegas music history, stocked with dozens of 2-inch tapes packed into binders whose spines attest to all the bands that have recorded here.
Las Vegas firefighters responded Thursday morning to multiple reports of a fire at a vacant house near East Oakey Boulevard and Las Vegas Boulevard South.
Here are answers to some common questions about Heartbleed — a security hole that may have exposed millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information — and what you can do to protect yourself.
On the afternoon of April 1, President Barack Obama pulled out the pom-poms and assumed the role of cheer captain at the White House Rose Garden to celebrate the great Obamacare victory. The Affordable Care Act had reached its purported goal of 7 million sign-ups, and by the March 31 deadline, no less.
Bryan Ferry’s take on Bill Murray’s singing “More Than This” is predictably positive.
There will be goat milking, pig racing, butter carving and a Little Buckaroo Rodeo. And that’s just in the first two hours. The Clark County Fair & Rodeo kicks off at 10 a.m. Thursday and runs through 9 p.m. Sunday at the fairgrounds at 1301 W. Whipple Ave. in Logandale.
When Arnold J. Smith donated his collection of 10,000 jazz records to UNLV’s Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center, he hoped to create a living jazz collection, one that could be accessed and enjoyed
Banker John Guedry’s speech on Wednesday marked the first of what he expected to be many talks with business leaders across the valley through November about a proposed 2 percent margins tax on business that would be earmarked for education.
Take the Valley of Fire exit off Interstate 15 north of Las Vegas, and you can’t miss the sign welcoming visitors to the Moapa Tribal Travel Center. It reads, “Tax Free.”
Technology such as video conferencing is forcing a redesigned blueprint at financial insitutions across the country and throughout Southern Nevada. Tellers are stepping from behind the counter. Even the line at the drive-up window is shorter.
The men’s national team will train at UNLV’s Mendenhall Center from July 27-31 and play an intrasquad game at the Thomas & Mack Center Aug. 1 as it prepares to participate in the FIBA World Cup basketball tournament in Spain at the end of August.