NV Energy south is proposing to close three of its four Reid Gardner coal-fired units generating electricity in Southern Nevada by the end of this year as part of a filing made Thursday with the Public Utilities Commission.
Reports by members of the military of sexual assaults jumped by an unprecedented 50 percent last year, in what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel declared a “clear threat” to both male and female service members’ lives and well-being.
The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday, following scrutiny of his plan to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights.
The Nevada attorney general’s office has rejected a request by a former Henderson mayoral candidate to require Mayor Andy Hafen to explain why he should remain in office due to a recent term limits ruling.
District and Justice court officials are complaining about North Las Vegas Municipal Court placing holds on cases, which hurts the city’s bottom line and could lead to the improper prosecution of potentially unfit defendants.
Looking for a spot to take Mom on her special day? Here’s a list of Las Vegas-area restaurants offering special Mother’s Day menus.
Battle Born Media LLC has acquired the Mesquite Local News weekly newspaper and its accompanying website from Stephens Media LLC.
The two recent cases – one in Minnesota, another in Montana – take the “stand your ground” debate to a new level: Do laws that allow private citizens to protect their property also let them set a trap and wait for someone to kill?
Three UNLV golfers were names to the 10-man all-Mountain West team announced Thursday.
A shaky video — at times poignant and heartbreaking as the teens said last words to their loved ones — was found on the cellphone belonging to 17-year-old Park Su-hyeon when his body was recovered after the disaster on the morning of April 16 off South Korea.
One minute, 8-year-old Zorion Connell is talking about Legos and toy guns, and the next he’s articulating math equations using Ohm’s law. On April 5, he passed the Federal Communications Commission’s amateur radio license exam.
A retired U.S. general felt the heat from a Republican committee chairman after saying that the military “should have tried” to save the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
SolarCity, the nation’s largest solar power provider, is launching its service for existing homes in Nevada, the company announced Thursday.
Las Vegas-based gaming equipment manufacturer Bally Technologies Inc. continued to ride its acquisition of SHFL entertainment to record revenue for its third quarter of 2013.
Despite its name, the Snapchat app has never offered real-time conversation —until now.
A Utah girl who was crossing the street after departing her school bus was struck by an oncoming bus and is in critical condition.
U.S. car buyers came out of hibernation in April to spend on pickup trucks and SUVs, fueling an auto sales rebound that analysts expect to last the rest of the year. Locally, an auto executive also reported brisk sales.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. chairman and CEO Steve Wynn said in a conference call on Thursday that he was “feeling good about Las Vegas, better than I had in the past.”
A photo op with a squirrel that went awry has left a teenager flustered but unhurt.
Some local restaurants are offering discounts to veterans and active-duty members of the military during May, National Military Appreciation Month. Among them: Bistro 57 at Aliante, Cabo Wabo Cantina at the Miracle Mile Shops, and PBR Rock Bar & Grill, also at the Miracle Mile Shops.
With the help of federal prosecutors, a former emission control inspector got a lighter sentence Thursday stemming from his conviction in a family-run scheme to submit phony test results to the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.
On a pleasant, sunny spring late morning, MGM Resorts and AEG officially launched the $375 million construction project with shovels hitting earth in a parking lot near the Las Vegas Strip at 11:50 a.m. and confetti in the air seconds afterward.
With time growing short and the numbers of long-term unemployed workers growing long, senators on Thursday stepped up a call for House leaders to act on a bill to restore federal jobless benefits that expired in December.
There was a time when Mastodon seemed to pattern their sound after their namesake: massive, heavy, destined to trample lesser creatures underfoot. But, like the prehistoric creature in question, that side of the band is a thing of the past.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford began a leave of absence to seek treatment for substance abuse Thursday, disappearing from public view after a report surfaced of second video of him apparently smoking crack cocaine.
Two Nevada police officers are being hailed as heroes for saving the life of a doctor who was critically injured in a shooting rampage at a Reno medical building.
Officials say a block-long hole opened up when a street collapsed in a residential neighborhood in northeast Baltimore, sucking in several cars and forcing the evacuation of several houses.
An apparent gas explosion all but destroyed a jail in the Florida Panhandle, killing two inmates and injuring as many as 180 people inside the building, authorities said Thursday. Three other inmates were found after they were reported missing.
Portions of 11 downtown Las Vegas streets will be closed for nine hours on Saturday for the 19th running of the Komen Southern Nevada Race for the Cure.
Northern Nevada sheriff’s deputies are investigating the suspected murder of a highly-decorated Vietnam vet whose remains were found in a septic tank near Virginia City almost 34 years after he disappeared.