Cindy Sherwood has waited years for a half-built project she can’t see, but she’s happy that the wastewater pipeline eventually will get rid of her North Las Vegas neighborhood’s problem with pesky midges.
UNLV’s Dana Finkelstein took ninth overall and sixth among amateurs Saturday at the World University Golf Championship in Geneva. The senior-to-be finished the four-round event at 1-under-par 287 to help Team USA take second behind Spain.
Former UNLV track and field star Amanda Bingson won the hammer throw Saturday for the second consecutive year in the USATF Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, Calif. Bingson, a 2012 London Olympian who attended Silverado High School, won the event with a toss of 246 feet, 3 inches, almost 11 feet better than runner-up Jessica Cosby. The winning throw was a record at Sacramento State’s Hornet Stadium.
Two New York men are suing the New Jersey Lottery after they threw out a Powerball ticket worth $1 million.
The chain-link fence surrounding the former fire station of the Granite Mountain Hotshots became a massive memorial in the days and weeks after 19 of them died a year ago in northern Arizona.
Ernest Hemingway once said, “The writer’s job is to tell the truth.” I do not consider myself a writer per se, but nonetheless, I believe he is right.
Air conditioning is a relief on a hot day. So you want to ensure your air conditioning unit is working well.
For homeowners looking to make a big interior design splash while staying on-trend, it’s all about focusing on little touches, experts say.
Not that long ago, many investors sunk money into shares of airlines and often watched those shares drop dramatically. But it’s a new world now with a key difference between two years ago and 2014: Airlines are making money.
The father of the young man who killed six people and injured 13 others near the University of California, Santa Barbara, last month says it’s his “duty” to help prevent future mass killings.
With brain surgery, even the slightest error can result in problems with speech, memory, balance, vision, coordination.
If there is any wrong doing inside the IRS, it has absolutely nothing to do with the White House.
Some families are trying to figure out how to keep their kids busy this summer, while others are trying to figure out how to keep them fed.
When I stand back and observe law enforcement and military service in the United States, the sheer swath, depth and breadth of options is impressive. It’s a continuum that begins with mere presence and ends with a thermonuclear strike.
Scoopo is valedictorian of the class of 2014 despite not being able to walk, write with his hands or talk. Before Nov. 8, 2000, Michael “Mikey” Scoopo was what you’d call a regular 5-year-old. Everything changed in a mouthful. It is unclear which morsel of food was tainted with E. coli bacteria, but whatever it was almost killed him.
Once abundant throughout the Western United States, the bumblebee with the distinctive white rump began to disappear in the 1990s. By the time this man made his discovery, some experts feared it was gone forever from the Puget lowlands.
Mexican law enforcement on Thursday crossed into Arizona by helicopter and fired two shots at U.S. border agents, a union spokesman said.
Whether you’re a born-and-bred Las Vegan, have only been here for a couple years or are just here for the weekend, there are some things you just need to know about Las Vegas.
Alysia Montano loves running so much that she took to the lineup at the U.S. Track and Field Championships and ran in an 800 meter race while 8-months pregnant.
A police standoff in the southwest valley led to one man’s arrest, road closures and home evacuations late Saturday morning.
A Mexican man is in custody for allegedly trying to smuggle 4 1/2 pounds of methamphetamine into Arizona in an accordion.
Brazil beat Chile 3-2 on penalties in its Round of 16 World Cup soccer match Saturday in Belo Horizonte — and the brutally close contest put the nation of 200 million into a state of collective suffering.
Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh told the Heat on Saturday that they are opting out of their contracts and will become free agents on Tuesday — the same decision that LeBron James revealed earlier in the week.
You’re reading this because Paramount wouldn’t show me “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” That’s not necessarily a bad thing, considering there’s virtually no way Michael Bay’s latest toy catalog could be as distinctive or surprising as the indie comedy, “Obvious Child.”
Despite overall numbers in the tens of thousands, the wild horse is on the verge of going extinct in North America for the second time in 13,000 years and deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act, mustang advocates say.
The latest entry into the growing catalog of zombie stories in the entertainment world is filming its 13-episode first season in Spokane.
A creepy, cannibalistic bug that infested much of Northern Nevada nine years ago might be making another drought-related assault on the state.
Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday accused the United States of encouraging Ukraine to challenge Moscow and heavily weighing in on the European Union.
Egypt’s military said Saturday that devices it claimed it invented to detect and cure AIDS and hepatitis C need six more months of testing.
Your south-of-the-border experience awaits. Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Mexican restaurants this week.