Follow the link for the latest girls basketball coaches poll.
Two professional free climbers are the first to reach the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park via the notoriously difficult Dawn Wall, more than a half-mile high.
UNLV wide receiver Devonte Boyd was named to the Freshman All-America Team by the Football Writers Association of America.
One of rancher Cliven Bundy’s sons has been arrested for skipping a court appearance.
I kind of remember where I was when I heard the news.
Army veteran Tony Ray Silva’s dog, Freedom, couldn’t have a more fitting name.
A 73-year-old man whose family has not seen him in a week has been reported missing, according to North Las Vegas police.
The final two episodes of the HBO drama’s fourth season, “The Watchers on the Wall” and “The Children,” have been digitally remastered for a one-week run at Imax theaters.
Chris Heers releasing “The Road Ahead Shines” on Friday with a show at Tommy Rocker’s.
Radio and dance don’t mix — except in “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host,” featuring NPR’s Ira Glass and two modern dancers, which visits The Smith Center Saturday.
Literary happenings coming up include a Jan. 15 presentation by paralympics medalist, “Dancing With the Stars” competitor, Las Vegas native Amy Purdy.
Astronauts returned to the U.S. side of the International Space Station on Wednesday after sheltering most of the day in Russia’s modules while ground teams assessed a potential ammonia leak, NASA said.
The New York Jets officially announced the hiring of Todd Bowles as their new head coach on Wednesday.
Beginning with his earliest memory and moving forward to young adulthood, Jason Schmidt shares a powerful, emotional coming-of-age tale of an unstable childhood, of the beginning of AIDS and of people living on the edge of society with little to nothing, all told in a voice dripping with sarcasm, irony and anger.
Alfred Villalobos, the former CalPERS board member facing federal corruption charges, died on Tuesday, a California newspaper reported.
Researchers at Great Basin National Park are trying to unravel the mystery behind a 132-year-old rifle found leaning against a juniper tree in the remote park 300 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
LAKE MEAD — Reports from Lake Mead have been quite varied this past week. Some anglers haven’t had so much as a bite while others are bringing in striped bass on a consistent basis. Live shad have been the ticket for stripers, but also are working for the occasional tilapia and catfish. The areas around 33 Hole, Sand Island and Boxcar Cove have all been producing fish. With the new moon coming Jan. 20, fishing should improve with the darker nights. Fishing under a light or with a submersible light increases the odds of attracting fish in the area.
A man was found dead in a wash in the northeast valley Wednesday, apparently of natural causes, Las Vegas police said.
Indianapolis Colts backup linebacker Josh McNary has been charged with felony rape, a spokeswoman for the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday.
District Judge Stefany Miley on Wednesday ordered former Clark County School District workers Craig Ballew and Ivy Rasmussen each to serve 8 to 20 years in prison on more than a dozen conspiracy, theft and elderly exploitation charges.
Opponents of using public dollars to help pay for a $200 million downtown Las Vegas soccer stadium faced a setback Tuesday blamed on an apparent error in the city clerk’s office. They need to collect more than 8,258 signatures to put the issue on the June 2 municipal election ballot, not 2,306, as originally thought.
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Gov. Brian Sandoval is expected to seek a new business license fee based on gross receipts to raise about $430 million over two years to pay for his proposals to improve public education in Nevada, the Review-Journal has learned.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada is likely to return to the Capitol next week after missing the first two weeks of the Senate while recuperating from injuries suffered in a home accident, aides confirmed Wednesday.
A Florida teenager being booked on a probation violation and other felony charges helped save the life of the officer doing his paperwork when the officer fell over and grabbed his chest.
Las Vegas police are investigating the death of a man found in some bushes near a gas station as a hit-and-run collision.
Fewer Americans are being shot and killed in homicides, but more are using guns to commit suicide, new research shows.
The Siegel Group Nevada Inc. recently acquired an apartment complex after the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority elected not to close on the purchase.