Contentment often has the power to slow down successful teams.
Southern Nevada universities and colleges are getting the short end of the stick, according to a new higher education funding analysis.
A man is dead and a police officer is hospitalized after a North Las Vegas shootout Tuesday night.
Plans to alter sex education in Clark County schools have been scrapped in the wake of protests from the community and several School Board members, who criticized the district for the secrecy in which curriculum changes were discussed.
A total lunar eclipse or “blood moon” appears above the Stratosphere Tower on early Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, in Las Vegas.
Skylar Davidson went 3-0 in singles, and Joe Connors and Ian Dobberstein went 3-0 in doubles Wednesday to lead Bishop Gorman’s boys tennis team to a 15-3 win at Centennial in a Sunset Region semifinal.
Victoria Cera’s goal with three minutes to play Wednesday lifted Centennial’s girls soccer team to a 2-1 win over visiting Desert Oasis.
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“Sherlock” star Benedict Cumberbatch says his latest role as a code-breaking genius doesn’t mean he’s only capable of playing brainy characters.
RED ROCK CANYON CAMPGROUND SET TO OPEN BY END OF OCTOBER
Nevada’s population could end up growing by more than 290,000 from 2000 to 2020, the Nevada State Demographer’s Office at the University of Nevada, Reno, reported Wednesday.
Three suburban Atlanta residents have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a 14-year-old before taking his collection of high-end sports shoes, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The 2022 Winter Olympics may have to move from its traditional January and February dates to accommodate the World Cup finals being staged in Qatar, leading European soccer clubs’ official Umberto Gandini said on Wednesday.
If there is something strange in the neighborhood, who are you going to call? ‘Hilarious women,’ quipped filmmaker Paul Feig, director of “Bridesmaids.”
It’s a mystery how a sky lantern — similar to the dozens that RiSE Festival promoters ignited and released at dusk Tuesday from the Jean Dry Lake bed — wound up 26 miles north of the launch site in Ken Du Pont’s swimming pool in Henderson.
Efforts by an upscale Wyoming town to stabilize a hillside whose slow collapse is threatening homes and businesses has been hampered by lack of access to private property where the landslide destroyed a house, a city manager said on Tuesday.
North Las Vegas’ downtown library might be in a smaller space — but the city’s hopes for the branch are big.
The bankruptcy of a major supplier of a super-hard sapphire glass that Apple Inc. uses in iPhones has thrown the future of a highly touted Mesa factory in doubt and caught the tech giant by surprise after it spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the plant.
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No marriage licenses were issued for same-sex couples in Clark County on Wednesday, and probably none will be issued on Thursday either, Clark County Clerk Diane Alba says.
Legacy’s Nadia Hernandez has an area-best 30 goals. Thanks in large part to her goal-scoring prowess, the Longhorns are enjoying the best season in school history and are in line to reach the Division I Sunset Region playoffs for the first time.
Off his soapbox, Fielder predicts the winners of Coronado at Green Valley, Las Vegas at Canyon Springs, Sierra Vista at Faith Lutheran, and Foothill at Silverado.
A man Las Vegas police said was linked to a series of robberies has been arrested.
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks soared and the dollar fell on Wednesday on a wave of investor relief after the Federal Reserve said it does not plan to hike interest rates before the economy can support an increase.
UNLV meets a Fresno State team that has recovered from an 0-3 start by winning its past three games.
BOSTON — Anti-gambling activists, in a study released Wednesday, suggest local aid from state lottery profits will drop by as much as $103 million if and when casinos open in Massachusetts, but casino proponents argue the revenue drop is not likely to be that severe.
Atlantic City arrested 24 people who blocked streets in the New Jersey city on Wednesday as hundreds of casino workers demonstrated against plans by the Trump Taj Mahal to cut pension and health benefits.
Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James moved past golfer Tiger Woods as the most valuable brand in sports this year, according to Forbes.
After a six-year development hiatus, Downtown Summerlin’s 1.6 million-square-foot shopping, restaurant and entertainment center opens at 10 a.m. Thursday.
Sarah Goldberg, who starred in the television series “7th Heaven” and the film “Jurassic Park III,” has died. She was 40.