The state’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since August 2008, as construction companies, professional firms and tourism businesses added workers, the state reported Friday morning.
Democrats and Republicans seem to agree: The 2015 Legislature will finally build a serious education budget and pass a comprehensive plan to get it done.
If your mother told you to eat your carrots so you’d be able to see in the dark, she was right. It turns out that feeding kids carrots is just one of a number of things parents can do to promote a lifetime of healthy eyes and good vision.
The legal system doesn’t work on the NFL’s schedule. The players facing child abuse or domestic violence allegations might wait a long time for their cases to play out in the courtroom. Here’s a look at what’s next in each case.
R&B legend Diana Ross has all the checkmarks needed to take over dates Celine Dion canceled.
Some students at a North Las Vegas elementary school were kept nearly two hours late after SWAT investigated a “domestic issue” nearby earlier in the day. Tartan Elementary School, on East Tropical Parkway near North Pecos Road, went on lockdown about 1:30 p.m., said Clark County School District police Lt. Ken Young.
Cleveland Browns Pro Bowl wide receiver Josh Gordon’s season-long suspension was reduced to 10 games on the heels of the NFL and NFLPA approving a new substance-abuse policy Friday.
NEW YORK — Alibaba debuted as a publicly traded company Friday and swiftly climbed more than 40 percent in a mammoth IPO that offered eager investors seemingly unlimited potential for growth and a way to tap into the burgeoning Chinese middle class.
Scotland spurned independence and saved a union dating back 300 years in a historic referendum but its defeated leader said it would hold London to last-minute offers of more power that could radically reshape the United Kingdom.
Assemblywoman Marilyn Dondero Loop, a retired teacher running for the state Senate, argued Thursday for across-the-board pay raises for teachers, saying it will make Nevada more competitive and reward hard work in overcrowded classrooms.
A former U.S. Air Force airman must spend 18 years to life in prison for shooting and killing his neighbor after an argument over noise during a Monday Night Football game, a Clark County judge decided Friday.
The iPhone 6 was released to the public today, and this guy already dropped it.
At age 96, Alan Dunbar admits that his World War II experience as a wounded American soldier in German prison camps made him “as sentimental as the next guy.”
The recent spate of high-profile domestic violence cases involving Ray Rice and other NFL players prompted Major League Baseball and the players’ union to open talks about the way that sport should deal with such episodes.
Two people who were shot by Las Vegas police last year have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department and three officers.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus has opened the door — just a tiny crack at this point — to restoring passenger rail service to Southern Nevada.
A driver has been cited after a truck hauling lumber products crashed at an Umpqua River bridge in southern Oregon Thursday, leaving the truck’s trailer hanging over the bridge railing.
A woman accused of assaulting a cab driver while he was driving, stealing his cab then crashing it into other vehicles earlier this year has pleaded guilty.
As Florida police examined why a 51-year-old felon shot his daughter and her six children to death before killing himself, residents of their small town grieved the loss of the children.
A Utah doctor convicted of murdering his wife in a case that became a true-crime cable TV obsession was sentenced Friday to 17 years to life in prison at a hearing in which his daughter called him a monster.
Expanding its presence in the creation and delivery of branded digital content, Lionsgate, a premier next generation global content leader, today announced the acquisition of distribution rights to The SMOSH Movie, starring the web-based comedy duo of Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, best known to their legions of YouTube fans as SMOSH.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri’s journalism school on Friday announced a $10 million gift from a Las Vegas-based charitable foundation whose total contributions now exceed $100 million in a first for the flagship Columbia campus.
The country vocal group is set to perform at the new Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.
My magical journey to see the Zappos-sponsored production of Sin City Opera’s “The Magic Flute on Fremont Street” in downtown Las Vegas began when I arrived beneath the giant mechanical praying mantis at the entry to Downtown Container Park. I was swept up into a warm-up session of aerobics with Mission: I’m Possible, an evangelical runners group that meets there each Thursday before a run to The Smith Center and back. We stretched our limbs to the booming spouts of flame from the monster mantis.
Crews hoped to take advantage of improved weather conditions on Friday to stop a raging Northern California wildfire before it claims 12,000 homes in the path of the flames that have already charred nearly 120 square miles of drought-parched forest land.
A young mother is being hailed as a hero after dying protecting her baby from her drunken husband.
A man who had been armed with an ax and barricaded himself in an apartment with children has been taken into custody in Laughlin, Las Vegas police said.
Four people were injured on Thursday when a JetBlue plane carrying 147 people made an emergency landing at the Long, Beach, California, airport, because of an engine issue, an airport spokeswoman said. Actor Jackson Rathbone, best known for his role as a vampire in the “Twilight” films, said in a series of Twitter posts that he had been on the plane.
Regional casino operator Penn National Gaming named CEO Tim Wilmott to the company’s board of directors Friday.
