Clark County schools Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky announced Wednesday plans to add seven new magnet programs and five Select Schools, which are high schools that will offer specialized programs of study, in 2015-16. Another four magnet programs will be added in 2016-17.
Bishop Gorman announced that Gino DiMaria will replace Nick Day as head baseball coach next season.
Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier both deeply regret their brawl at a publicity stop in Las Vegas earlier this week. The light heavyweights also say they would probably do it again in a similar situation.
Mountain Ridge Little League defeated the Southern California team Wednesday at the Little League West Regionals in San Bernardino, Calif. Mountain Ridge finished pool play undefeated and advanced to Friday’s semifinals.
The organizers of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon announced an additional 5 kilometer race on Nov. 15, the night before marathoners take to the Strip.
A central Nevada ranching family facing a $1 million judgment in a wrongful death case has received a reprieve.
John Hastrich and his girlfriend will never again live in the Las Vegas home they shared for seven years.
Ulises Sanchez knew he wanted to study science, but it was hard to picture what a career in the field would be like from his vantage point as a high school senior.
An ex-Nevada lawmaker was arrested again Tuesday in Nevada on five charges from last year, not long after a California judge ruled that he had served enough time in jail on separate charges.
Clark County commissioners on Wednesday approved a disaster declaration for the flooded Mount Charleston area — which suffered more than $2 million in damage — that will make the county eligible to receive emergency assistance funding.
In the wake of two illegal immigrants from Mexico who gunned down an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent in front of his family, one must once again wonder: How big of a heartless politician is Harry Reid.
The giggles and innocence neighbors associated with the playground at the Pinebrook Village mobile home park vanished in the screams of a 9-year-old boy, who witnesses and authorities said was stabbed in the back by a 12-year-old.
Ward Drive, formerly Beverly Drive, was renamed for longtime Henderson resident Milton Eugene Ward in 1958.
Ammar Harris, who faces the death penalty in connection with a Strip shooting that left three people dead, could be returned to the Clark County Detention Center while he awaits trial.
A judge set bail at $500,000 Wednesday for a man accused of pointing a gun at a Metro officer after a shooting in the northeast valley this weekend.
A former emission control inspector was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison and six months of home detention in a family-run scheme to submit phony smog test results to the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.
The second body recovered on Monday from the Lake Mead National Recreation Area was identified Tuesday by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Indiana Pacers guard Paul George looks to be in better spirits this week after suffering a horrific leg injury last week in Las Vegas during the USA Basketball Showcase game because he bought himself quite the get-well gift.
Sin City Opera leads off its 2014-15 season with a free, English-language production of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” at downtown’s Container Park.
A woman who ran from Utah law enforcement and whose ensuing chase temporarily shut down a stretch of Interstate 15 near Mesquite faces criminal charges, according to a police report.
A visit to Canyon de Chelly National Monument is a feast for the eyes and soul. There, you will find sheer red sandstone cliffs rising 1,000 feet above the fertile farmland of the canyons, where prehistoric Ancestral Puebloan ruins and hundreds of other archaeological sites dot the landscape. People have lived there nearly 5,000 years; it is believed to be the longest continuous occupancy of any site on the Colorado Plateau.
First-round draft pick Erick Fedde joins Bryce Harper and manager Matt Williams in giving Nationals a major Las Vegas connection.
Ron Scoggins, who started 19 games the past two seasons at offensive guard, is back with the UNLV football team after leaving in the spring. Now he must work his way back up.
President Barack Obama’s administration is all about social media. So it’s never a surprise when any of the president’s three Twitter feeds — @WhiteHouse, @BarackObama and @OFA (the last two are run by Organizing for Action) — promote his words and deeds. It’s equally unsurprising how often these tweets reveal a president and an administration completely out of touch with the country.
A 5-year-old boy’s lively TV interview at a Pennsylvania county fair, punctuated by his frequent use of the word “apparently,” has turned him into an Internet sensation.
Getting to the Grand Canyon Skywalk used to include a teeth-chattering drive over a washboard road fraught with dips and twists, but motorists will now have a smoother drive to the Hualapai Tribe’s most popular tourist destination because Diamond Bar Road is paved.
A tornado touched down in Clark County for the first time in more than a decade during Monday’s storm, according to the National Weather Service.
Operators of the SLS Las Vegas were recommended approval for a Nevada gaming license Wednesday that will return life to a Strip resort that has been closed since 2011.
After a journey of 4 billion miles, Europe’s unmanned Rosetta probe reached its destination Wednesday, a milestone in mankind’s first attempt to land a spacecraft on a comet.
