Clark County School Board members voted on Thursday to make minor zoning changes that will affect several schools throughout the valley next year.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush plans to hold a discussion Monday in Las Vegas on “restoring the promise of America” as the Republican contemplates a 2016 run for president.
Travis Kvapil’s orange stock car, the ride he intended to use for qualifying Friday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, was stolen from his hotel parking lot early Friday morning along with a spare engine and the truck and trailer hauling it.
Nevada Health Link’s board of directors elected Leslie Johnstone as its new chairwoman. Johnstone, who’s been on the board since 2011, will replace outgoing chair Barbara Smith Campbell, who said in January that she planned to step down from the board to focus on expansion of her Reno-based consulting firm.
Cortney Middle School and Harmon Elementary School were placed on lockdown Friday morning because of a shooting investigation in a nearby residential neighborhood, Las Vegas police said.
A new effort to improve how campus sex assaults are investigated and judged was launched Thursday by a dozen senators including Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada.
A mysterious sudden death of a mother and her adult son are raising concerns of a possibly dangerous virus.
Some see white and gold. Others see blue and black. There’s no middle ground. The Great Dress Debate of 2015 via Tumblr and asked for help in identifying its colors. Here’s the science behind the true color of the #TheDress.
WASHINGTON – A Northern Nevada tribe and the federal government on Friday completed an agreement that settles longstanding claims for water along a fork of the Owyhee River.
Eight people have either been arrested or cited by police for their roles in stealing an emu in a rural Texas town and beating it to death, the Comanche County Sheriff’s Department said on Thursday.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada assemblyman was arrested early Friday on suspicion of drunken driving after a Carson City deputy found him asleep in a car outside a bar with a gun in his pocket, authorities said.
Tickets for the Las Vegas Outlaws debut in the Arena Football League go on sale Sunday. The Outlaws first game is March 30 against the San Jose SaberCats at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Deacon, founder of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas environmental studies program, specialized in study of Devil’s Hole pupfish and other Nevada endangered species.
A gloomy week in Chicago ended with optimism Friday when Bulls general manager Gar Forman said the team expects Derrick Rose to be back in 4-6 weeks following successful surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee.
The $150,000 pearl-studded, custom-made Calvin Klein dress worn by Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o at this year’s Academy Awards has been stolen, police said on Thursday.
Earl Lloyd, the first African-American man to play in the NBA, died Thursday at the age of 86.
A high school was placed on lockdown as a precaution on Friday after police said they were responding to Internet rumors and an anonymous threat but had not received any emergency calls.
Three additional cases of measles were announced Friday in connection with a staff member at an MGM Grand restaurant.
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I always loved this story about Jerry Tarkanian: It was shortly after UNLV won its national championship in basketball when a group of out-of-town reporters happened to be in the same restaurant as the Rebels coach.
Michael Sam, the first openly gay player in the NFL, has been invited to the league’s inaugural veteran combine on March 22.
Students at Bryan Elementary School, 8050 Cielo Vista Ave., participated in Jump Rope For Heart Jan. 30 to benefit the American Heart Association. Bryan physical education teacher Pius Lynch has taken part in the effort for 35 straight years.
Tony Dane, who owns a “robo-call” company that specializes in conservative issues and candidates, this past week fired up another mass message in Assemblyman Chris Edwards’ District 19. Subject: a possible recall.
In case you haven’t checked your calendar lately, spring training camps have opened, exhibition games are in full swing, and the start of the 2015 Major League Baseball season is only weeks away. But for more than 5,000 kids in Southern Nevada who are connected at various times to the Las Vegas Baseball Academy, baseball season is a year-round experience.
Las Vegans are discovering the hard-to-beat flavors at Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt. The walk-up stand features hand mixed ice cream, just as it was back in 1945 when Alice Handel began serving ice cream out of her husband’s gas station in Youngstown, Ohio.
One might not expect to find fresh seafood poke 2,684 miles from Hawaii, especially in in the Las Vegas desert, but at Poke Express, the Big Island is packed inside a market.
On the corner of Tropicana Avenue and Maryland Parkway, nestled next to the hub of UNLV, is Rumbi Island Grill. The eatery evokes a tropical food paradise with a vibrantly painted mural of Hawaii lining the back wall, and brightly colored orchids acting as the centerpiece for the dining room’s wooden tables.
