CARSON CITY — A former commanding officer of Camp Pendleton in Southern California has been chosen as city manager of Carson City.
California Chrome pulled away down the stretch for a dominant win at the 140th Kentucky Derby.
Democratic leaders on Saturday warned Clark County party members that Republicans backed by “dark money” will likely out-spend them in the 2014 election, but Democrats’ “people power” will win in the end.
At the height of the “Just Say No” campaign in the war on drugs, Sig Rogich was a senior adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
The parking lot of Holy Spirit Lutheran Church is a testament to the amazing things that can happen when discarded cardboard boxes meet the minds of dedicated people armed with duct tape, staple guns and scads of enthusiastic creativity.
Patrick Armstrong’s walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave UNLV a 2-1 baseball victory over James Madison on Saturday in Clemson, S.C.
If a man is marrying a woman somewhere in America, odds are that he proposed to her. That may seem obvious, but consider this: Three-fourths of Americans say it would be fine for the woman to do the proposing, in theory.
Conservationists and the Ivory Coast government hope to promote ecotourism in a national park with a chimpanzee population that is conditioned to be relatively comfortable around humans.
From pizza to fine Italian dining, here are some restaurants to consider when you’re in the mood for Italian.
The city of Reno is spending thousands of dollars sending firefighters to emergency medical certification training at out-of-state tourist destinations despite the fact the same training is offered in Northern Nevada.
A California jury awarded Apple $119 million — far less than the $2.2 billion it demanded — in a patent battle with Samsung over alleged copying of smart phone features, and the jury made the victory even smaller by finding that Apple illegally used one of Samsung’s patents.
The father of a 5-year-old boy who was missing for months before his body was found by the side of a highway apologized at his funeral Saturday, saying he wished he could have saved his son.
Just about everyone will have an opinion on the Kentucky Derby, some more educated than others. Before giving my picks – since it’s just one man’s opinion and this is the biggest handicapping challenge of the year with a 19-horse field of fast-developing 3-year-olds — I’d like to share the consensus of the sharpest Derby handicappers: the future-book bettors.
On a relatively quiet street in North Las Vegas where many of the houses look the same, one house holds hidden treasures. In the living room, there are several platinum and gold records hung on a wall. Larry White sits beneath them in a crisp black button-down shirt and black pants.
A Douglas County man is facing charges after authorities said he interfered with firefighters trying to extinguish a blaze in his garage.
Health officials confirmed the first case of an American infected with a mysterious virus that has sickened hundreds in the Middle East.
The first annual Jerry Tarkanian alumni charity basketball game to benefit Centennial High athletics was a great success.
Artisan — as it applies to just about anything — is one of the biggest buzzwords in the food world right now, and artisan pizza places have been popping up like the mushrooms in their toppings during the past few years. So what makes Custom Built Artisan Pizza stand out?
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War.
The bald eagle, the yellow warbler and the peregrine falcon have been joined in the skies above Yosemite National Park by a noisy newcomer: the drone.
WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana is forced to switch to a different style of glove than the ones he originally intended to fight in tonight at the MGM Grand Garden after WBC champ Floyd Mayweather and his camp objected to the location and style of the padding.
V. Stiviano says Donald Sterling’s racist comments on an audio recording leaked to the public were not the first by the Los Angeles Clippers owner in conversations with her.
The 19th annual Komen Southern Nevada Race for the Cure took place at the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas on Saturday.
Although Toyota is playing it coy for the reasons behind the move of its national headquarters from Los Angeles to Dallas, you don’t have to be an economist to know why.
Utah wildlife officials are supporting ranchers and county leaders who are threatening to break federal law and round up wild horses this summer if federal officials don’t do it first.
Afghan rescuers and hundreds of volunteers armed with shovels and little more than their bare hands dug through earth and mud Saturday looking for survivors or bodies of loved ones killed by a massive landslide in the remote northeast.
A North Las Vegas man accused of butchering his mother and sister, mutilating one of the bodies with a chainsaw and then living in a house with the decomposing bodies has been ordered to undergo a mental competency evaluation.
The man who was shot Thursday night near Owens and Eastern avenues was identified Saturday morning by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Nevada would hold its Democratic presidential caucuses no later than Feb. 20, 2016, under a Democratic calender proposed Friday that maintains the Silver State’s status of holding the first White House vote in the West.
A man was driving recklessly through a neighborhood near Lake Mead Boulevard and Pecos Road when he hit a boy on a bicycle, according to Las Vegas police.