A car crashed into a building Thursday afternoon near downtown Las Vegas, prompting a response from police and fire crews.
Congress is laying down a gauntlet on the sage grouse, challenging federal land managers to come up with better plans to avoid listing the desert bird as threatened or endangered, Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada said Thursday.
About 200 residents of West Las Vegas and dignitaries celebrated the reopening of F Street on Thursday, hailing it as reunification of a historic neighborhood with a reawakening downtown.
Ishe Smith gets a second shot to win a world title. But beating WBA junior middleweight champ Erislandy Lara won’t be easy
The first chunk of new roadway for the dream that is Interstate 11 took another step closer to reality Thursday.
Former UNLV guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was arrested overnight in Story County, Iowa, according to several reports. But a judge tossed out a drug-related charge at a hearing Thursday morning, saying police lacked probable cause.
A Laughlin tax preparer was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison this week for filing false tax returns, according to the IRS.
Strong gales and sheets of rain that knocked out electricity, flooded freeways and toppled trees in Northern California churned Thursday to a slide-prone Southern California bracing for its own beating.
The ownership group looking to launch a NHL team in Las Vegas has created a website called LasVegas-Hockey.com for fans interested in registering their names, emails and addresses.
Winds gusting to 140 mph through Sierra Nevada passes ahead of a powerful Pacific storm damaged homes and a church in South Lake Tahoe, closed schools, and grounded commercial airline flights in Reno.
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty this week to filing false tax returns with the identities of dead people.
A 90-day jail sentence was imposed Thursday for a police officer’s wife and former dispatcher who looted funds while serving as treasurer of the Bullhead City Police Officer’s Association in Arizona.
A couple in Washington, D.C. decided to teach package thieves a lesson … a stinky one.
Las Vegas police seek the public’s help in identifying a man they say is connected to an armed robbery of a southwest valley Circle K on Sunday.
Cam Newton is not worried about when he’ll return to the football field — he says he’s just happy to be alive. Newton returned to the team’s facility two days after a two-car accident left him with two fractures in his lower back.
A high school football playoff game taken into court after a disputed penalty erased a late-game touchdown will not be replayed, an Oklahoma district judge ruled on Thursday, saying athletic contests should not be decided by “robed referees.”
Las Vegas Sands Corp. named longtime company executive Rob Goldstein as president and chief operating officer, Thursday, replacing the retiring Mike Leven.
Bush is coming to town Friday. I’m not talking about George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush, or Jeb Bush, or Zeppo Bush.
In the battle over the shrinking horse racing pie, simulcast providers are seeking increased payments from locations that don’t offer live racing. This could have a big impact at Nevada casinos.
CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday that some agency officers used “abhorrent” interrogation techniques and said it was “unknowable” whether so-called enhanced interrogation techniques managed to get useful intelligence out of terrorism suspects.
The Las Vegas Outlaws arena football team is holding an open tryout at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. is expected to miss a $224 million interest payment owed to bondholders as the company prepares to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy on its largest operating division next month.
A 21-year-old pre-med student was eating lunch when he heard a commotion outside the Hurricane Grill & Wings. He ran outside and saw a silver Lincoln half-submerged in the lake.
Officials say they are still working to determine who doused 19-year-old Jessica Chambers with a flammable liquid and set her on fire. They said they’d made no arrests and didn’t expect any in the near future, but that they would continue to follow up on all tips.
Nevadans are now knee deep in the Affordable Care Act’s second open enrollment period, which began Nov. 15 and closes Monday for coverage to take effect by Jan. 1. Many are finding what appears to be a pleasant surprise: Average premiums are increasing by only 4.9 percent. The Affordable Care Act’s naysayers predicted “double-digit” spikes or worse.
First American Trust, a wholly owned subsidiary of First American Financial Corp., has expanded into Nevada by opening a new location in Las Vegas, extending its full-service investment management, wealth planning and trust solutions.
A Las Vegas sushi restaurant owner convicted of tax evasion will serve six months of house arrest, the IRS said Thursday.
A former New York Yankees outfielder who worked as a youth baseball coach was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl during baseball practice.
You can imagine how 7-year-old Ella felt when she found out from her mother that her name is ranked No. 1 on a Huffington Post Top 20 list of ‘Names that most often appear on the naughty list.’
Impromptu donations tend to draw crime and littering, Las Vegas police said on Thursday, so they’re setting up a safe place for “well-intended citizens” to give face to face.