Fire marshals were working Sunday to determine what sparked a blaze that killed a lieutenant who became trapped while looking for possible victims in a burning public-housing high-rise.
John Maloney, an usher at Christ Church Episcopal, is accustomed to meeting tourists who’ve decided to devote a few hours of their Las Vegas vacations to attending weekly Mass.
During the height of the poker boom, the Rio Convention Center was filled with crazy hats and outlandish outfits during the World Series of Poker’s Main Event.
Flavor Flav’s yearslong battle with neighbors over his annual Fourth of July fireworks show might be at an end after Las Vegas police slapped the rapper with two citations Friday night.
The Fourth of July went off like a dud at the box office, as the Michael Bay sequel “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and the Melisa McCarthy comedy “Tammy” led the weakest summer holiday weekend in at least a decade.
Don’t say “sayonara” to casinos in Japan quite yet. Japanese lawmakers are just taking a summer break.
A swimmer was bitten Saturday by a juvenile great white shark that grew agitated trying to free itself from a hook a fisherman had thrown into the water off Southern California’s Manhattan Beach Pier, officials said.
A man and a dog were trapped on a roof by a house fire early Sunday morning, according to Las Vegas Fire and Rescue.
Ghost towns are scattered all across Nevada. A few of them are still sparsely inhabited, but most are completely abandoned.
The U.S. air safety regulator is drafting rules to permit small drones to be used for commercial purposes, a step toward allowing remote-control planes and helicopters to be deployed for everything from TV news coverage to monitoring crops.
The billboards make them look like magic’s version of “The Avengers.” And they fight their way out of a basement like superheroes, too.
There is growing pushback from Americans who argue the H-1B visa program has been hijacked by staffing companies that import cheaper, lower-level workers to replace more expensive U.S. employees — or keep them from getting hired in the first place.
James “Bubba” Dukes’ need is great as he struggles to earn a diploma at Chaparral High School. The obstacles faced by the football player and teen father aren’t just academic — his push to graduation is impeded by family and financial woes that have him trying to keep his family intact and off the streets.
Not many musicians start their career by first performing in a show near the Strip, and not many are hired while they’re still in high school. Both are true for 18-year-old Faith Lutheran graduate Alec Zeilon.
Perhaps one day law enforcement officials will acknowledge that Las Vegas has emerged as a national crossroads for oxycodone abuse and trafficking.
The fourth generation of the Gaughan family is already making its mark in the gaming business.
A loss tonight to Frankie Edgar would spell the end of the legendary mixed martial arts career of BJ Penn. Probably.
There are Las Vegas moments. And then there’s this: Those with window seats on the right side of the plane saw Fourth of July fireworks above the Strip and across the valley, a lightning storm and the colorful lights of the High Roller, the world’s tallest observation wheel.