Warren Elementary School teacher Trina Boring’s hard work and dedication to her students has earned her the honor of being Clark County Educator of the Month for April.
Obamacare is beginning to affect retirees in subtle ways, according to two new studies.
Upside: You, baby boomer parent, and your teenager may finally have something in common.
Clark County Recorder Debbie Conway faces two Democratic opponents in the June 10 primary, including a former high-level director who worked within the recorder’s office.
Voters in the southwest Las Vegas Valley’s Assembly District 35 will have to choose between similar platforms from all of their primary candidates.
A nervous energy bubbled high atop the Rio, on the patio on the 50th floor, where men and women of all shapes and sizes queued up to be the first to ride the new VooDoo Zip Line on Sunday.
Brandon Burk directs Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners “The Importance of Being Earnest” for Off-Strip Productions at the Onyx Theatre with as light a touch as the delicate crustless cucumber sandwiches that Algernon Moncrieff scarfs down while awaiting his guests in the opening scene. Burk skips the hoary Masterpiece Theatre treatment of this classic and instead surprises his audience with a play with moral irreverence as surprising and funny to today’s audience as it must have been when first performed in London.
Ten areas in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada have been selected as top priorities for projects to combat damage from insects and disease that increases the wildfire risk.
Somewhere, there’s a family that’s the target audience for “Blended.”
The hole was too deep this time, giving UNLV nearly no chance of engineering a miracle rally for the second night in a row.
A 99-year-old Maine woman is celebrating her graduation from college 75 years after a $5 transcript fee kept her from getting her diploma on time.
Josh Beckett pitched the first no-hitter of his stellar career and the first in the majors this season, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0 on Sunday.
A man who was pulled from Lake Mead Thursday morning was identified Sunday by the Clark County Coroner’s office.
The U.S. House and Senate last week approved a $12.3 billion bill that reforms the way the federal government funds construction and maintenance of harbors and inland waterways used for commercial shipping.
Landon Donovan thought he had earned a prominent role on the U.S. World Cup team right up until the moment he was cut from the roster by coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
A report titled “Dangerous by Design,” issued last week by the National Complete Streets Coalition, ranks Las Vegas the 13th most dangerous for pedestrians of 51 metropolitan areas in the U.S., but those numbers don’t consider the number of walking tourists.
A team of mutants overpowered one massive mutant monster at the box office during the Memorial Day holiday.
Owners of brands geared toward children of all ages are battling to keep notable names like Thin Mint, Tootsie Roll and Cinnamon Toast Crunch off the flavored nicotine used in electronic cigarettes.
A depressing era is ending. It spanned eight years, years of mostly mediocre and sometimes really bad baseball. Tim Chambers finally has put an end to it.
President Barack Obama secretly slipped into Afghanistan under the cover of darkness Sunday for a weekend visit with U.S. troops serving in the closing months of America’s longest war.
Two famous men known for altercations were celebrity hosts at the same nightclub this weekend.
Because of last summer’s disastrous Carpenter 1 fire, subsequent floods and an ongoing schedule of improvements, visitors to the Spring Mountain retreat this summer should expect some changes and restrictions.
Some Indianapolis 500 race fans didn’t need to worry about waking up early Sunday morning and joining lines of traffic to get into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — they were already in place after spending the night “glamping” within the track’s vast infield.
Save for a few small companies, Wall Street has thrown in the towel on slot machine manufacturers for 2014.
It seems like a simple proposition: American lakes, rivers and offshore waters are filling up with destructive fish and crustaceans originally from other parts of the world, many of them potential sources of food.
Three people were killed and a fourth person was wounded in a shooting at an oceanfront motel in Myrtle Beach, one of South Carolina’s most popular tourist destinations.
The Mighty Mississippi might have inspired the pen name Mark Twain, but Nevada gave it voice.
In YouTube videos and a long written manifesto, Elliot Rodger aired his contempt for everyone from his roommates to the whole human race, reserving special hate for two groups: the women he says kept him a virgin for all of his 22 years, and the men they chose instead.