The Walt Disney Co. says it has extended Robert Iger’s contract as chairman and CEO by two years through June 30, 2018.
A former Garden State Parkway toll collector has filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying a supervisor told her to stop saying “God bless you” to motorists.
An American cameraman helping to cover the Ebola outbreak in Liberia for NBC News has tested positive for the virus and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.
Two years after the last film of the popular movie franchise, Lionsgate announced late Tuesday that Stephenie Meyer’s world of vampires and werewolves will be revived for a short film competition.
The U.S. women’s national team inadvertently posted its 20-player roster for the upcoming CONCACAF championship, which serves as qualifying for the World Cup next year in Canada.
While Secretary of State Ross Miller on Wednesday called an ethics complaint against him “silly,” his office has nevertheless modified the agency’s website to remove his photo and other information from an online election portal for overseas voters to participate in the Nov. 4 general election.
The Thursday night massacres continue. The Green Bay Packers blew out the Minnesota Vikings 42-10 at Lambeau Field.
Nelson Cruz and J.J. Hardy homered, and the Baltimore Orioles hammered out 12 hits in defeating Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer and the Detroit Tigers 12-3 Thursday in the opener of their AL Division Series.
A road crew in Washington state has had it with a beaver that persists in building a dam under a bridge.
New taxes could be on the horizon in downtown Las Vegas, but only if some area business owners feel like paying them.
Las Vegas has one more attraction for its 40 million visitors: an annual hemp festival. The event will be held at the Clark County Government Center on Saturday.
Hot Springs is a history-lover’s dream. Over the years, visitors to this city of 35,000 in central Arkansas have ranged from baseball stars to notorious gangsters, all drawn by one thing: the naturally occurring warm mineral water that gives the area its name.
Las Vegan Ken Korach called the A’s-Royals instant classic on radio. “It was just one of those games that took you with it, that took you for a ride,” he said.
With UNLV star wide receiver Devante Davis possibly out for an extended period of time with a hand injury, freshman Devonte Boyd has shown he can be the go-to receiver. But can the Basic High School graduate match Davis’ production?
New documents show U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials saw videos of a Nogales, Arizona, border agent punching a teen in the stomach the day after the January incident, but the agent continued to work until last week.
Global Cash Access CEO Ram Chary believes some opinions in the investment community might be off a bit when it concerns the company’s planned $1.2 billion acquisition of slot machine manufacturer Multimedia Games.
Anxiety often rises the closer you get to the front of the line of a haunted house. What terrors await you in the shadows?
If the November election were today, Republican state Sen. Mark Hutchison would handily defeat Democratic Assemblywoman Lucy Flores 47 percent to 35 percent of the vote in the lieutenant governor’s race, which could affect GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval’s future, a new poll shows.
The Dutch government is selling off 2,500 body bags in an online auction.
The production of “Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” is set to start filming in Australia.
Unity in medical care and research would greatly benefit the state, according to a new non-profit organization called Nevada Medical Center, which has received a $1 million donation to work toward better health care.
An already busy bear season has exploded in the Sierra Nevada with 10 hungry bruins captured in a single day this week near Reno and Lake Tahoe as drought continues to make food scarce.
An attorney for the wife of a suburban Los Angeles mayor who was fatally shot at his home said Thursday his client was a victim of domestic violence but he gave no details of how that might have played a role in the deadly incident.
A former Las Vegas police detective has been charged with committing fraud while he investigated financial crimes. Scott Friedman was indicted by a federal grand jury last month in an investment scheme authorities say defrauded longtime cardiologist Tali Arik of $1.2 million.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. says that a recent cyberattack compromised customer information for about 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.
A New York supermarket employee has been accused of leaving the store with $1,200 worth of meat hidden in his pants.
Southbound Interstate 15 is closed at Tropicana Avenue for a police investigation. A bomb-detecting robot was unloaded from a fire department truck just before 3:30 p.m.
After George Clooney’s recent nuptials to prominent lawyer Amal Alamuddin, a British bookie has cut the odds in half for the actor to become POTUS one day.
None of the key economic indicators in think-tank Brookings Mountain West’s newest Mountain Monitor have returned to their pre-recession levels. Rather, Southern Nevada’s recovery could best be described as “steady, plodding, broadly based progress.”