Last season Nathalia Luna picked up a tennis racket for the first time and was the only member of the Western girls tennis team. This year, she has reinforcements.
Faith Lutheran junior Chase Wood fell just 11 seconds short of the Division I-A state cross-country state title last year. He’s been hard at work this summer to make sure he’s the first one to cross the line this season.
Schoolwork remains the top priority for the Crusaders, but their scores get getting better.
After four years of considering a professional sports venue and poised to vote on a nonbinding stadium deal Wednesday, the Las Vegas City Council pushed the decision to Oct. 1 to allow Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian more time to speak with city residents about the proposed Major League Soccer (MLS) stadium.
Pilots and flight attendants may be at an increased risk of developing the most deadly form of skin cancer, suggests a new analysis.
Las Vegas police were investigating a shooting a few blocks from UNLV Wednesday morning. A woman was shot about 11 a.m. on the 1000 block of Sierra Vista Drive, near Maryland Parkway and Desert Inn Road, Las Vegas police said.
The Sinclair Broadcast Group announced Wednesday it will purchase KSNV, Las Vegas’s NBC-affiliated station, from Intermountain West for $120 million.
A UNLV research center on Tuesday issued a “more realistic” analysis of the impact of a proposed 2 percent state margins tax on business but still concluded it could create thousands of new jobs.
The man who was found dead on Tuesday after a single-car crash on Interstate 15 was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Wednesday. Nevada Highway Patrol responded to northbound I-15, near Tropicana Avenue, at about 3:40 p.m. There, they found David Makkonen, 44, from North Las Vegas. The white Toyota Corolla he was driving had hit a wall, NHP said.
With the opening of school and the approach of holidays, most of us become too busy to escape for long from our city lives. That makes the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge a good choice for a September escape. Lying in Nevada near the California state line, it’s close enough to enjoy thoroughly in a single day, yet it’s a little farther north, a little higher, and therefore a little cooler, than our own valley. Now is an especially good time to go if you enjoy birdwatching or counting how many different kinds you can see, for the fall migratory season is upon us, and more than 275 species have been recorded there.
North Carolina’s longest-serving death row inmate and his younger half brother walked out as free men Wednesday, three decades after they were convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl who DNA evidence shows may have been killed by another man.
A Las Vegas woman who was behind the wheel in a crash that killed her 9-year-old niece was ordered released from jail Tuesday.
Prosecutors filed an amended complaint Wednesday against mixed martial artist War Machine, including charges of attempted murder.
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A man facing murder charges who tried to indimidate possible witnesses in his case was indicted Wednesday by a Clark County grand jury.
The Islamic Society of Nevada on Wednesday condemned the beheadings of American journalists by the terrorists known as ISIS.
The New York Yankees will celebrate Derek Jeter’s career by wearing a special patch on their caps and jerseys during his final few weeks in the majors.
The 19-year-old man facing charges he caused an explosion that severely burned a girl and six of her Basic High School classmates at a bonfire in the desert south of June 9 appeared in Henderson Justice Court Wednesday.
Just when you thought the “Frozen” hype was finally dying out — it’s back. Brace yourselves, parents: a new song is coming, too.
The lawyer for a man declared dead two decades ago, only to resurface as the suspect in the 2010 murder of a Las Vegas woman and her daughter, does not deny that her client killed the two but said Wednesday that he’s being tried in the wrong court.
Webb Simpson’s season just got a little longer. But the Shriners Open defending champ doesn’t mind after being selected to represent the United States in the upcoming Ryder Cup.
The 12-year-old Wisconsin girl who nearly died after she was stabbed 19 times is back in school.
ATLANTIC CITY — Carrying identification documents and bitterness over their sudden joblessness, hundreds of ex-casino workers began filing for unemployment Wednesday morning, the first attendees at an assistance center that expects to process 5,000 newly laid-off workers over the next three days.
In their first debate, the top two candidates for lieutenant governor on Wednesday clashed over taxes, education, immigration, gay marriage and health care as well as the best way to boost Nevada’s recovering economy.
Comedian Joan Rivers, who suffered cardiac arrest last week, has been moved out of an intensive care unit in a New York hospital and into a private room, her daughter said on Wednesday.
Even a slow opening day leaves us wondering what the rest of dove season holds. Even when hunting a place we have hunted before, there always is the chance we will experience something new.
Three players to watch when UNLV’s football team plays Northern Colorado at 7 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
The Southern Nevada Health District reported the first case of West Nile virus in a human this year. The health district said a man over 50 years old contracted the more serious, neuroinvasive form of the illness.
A man accused of a string of five robberies in the northeast valley was indicted Wednesday by a Clark County grand jury.