It was segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace who declared during the 1968 presidential campaign that “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.”
On the day before the Mountain West basketball tournament, reality hit. It actually hit a long time ago. But Chris Wood shook his head when discussing how the Rebels ended up getting buried in the conference standings.
The Gonzaga Bulldogs won their third straight West Coast Conference basketball tournament on Tuesday night at Orleans Arena with a 91-75 victory over Brigham Young in front of a tournament-record crowd of 8,585.
Green Valley baseball coach Corey Gehlken said he was looking forward to a long nap.
Pahrump Valley’s Isaac Davis won three events Tuesday to lead the Trojans to victory in a four-team meet at Western.
Meghan McDermott won three events Tuesday to help Pahrump Valley’s girls track team win a four-team meet at Western.
The go-go pace to get started on the $2.3 billion overhaul of the Las Vegas Convention Center campus took a breath Tuesday. Members of the board of directors of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority voted to delay action on hiring a third-party owner representative to oversee the Las Vegas Global Business District project.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee was on hand for the opening of the second SolarCity operation center in the Las Vegas Valley at their new facility in North Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Palo Verde softball coach Kelly Glass didn’t have a checklist of her team’s goals for Tuesday’s game posted anywhere.
The spring combine season is in full swing, and that means prep football players across the country are trying to impress college coaches without actually putting on pads and helmets.
You would have to be crazy to think you can master the betting process for the NCAA’s annual college basketball tournament. That’s part of why it’s called March Madness.
Samantha Milanovich went 3-for-4 with a double Tuesday to lead Shadow Ridge’s softball team to a 7-3 win over visiting Desert Oasis.
The NFL’s new year’s day party was a wild affair Tuesday that included some 109 transactions, including two shocking retirements, three surprising trades and a wild spree of free agent action.
After spending the parts of two days waiting in line, Nancy GashoFromm finally had managed to renew her Nevada driver’s license. No one would have blamed her for letting out a victory yell, or collapsing in tears.
The brewing proxy fight at Wynn Resorts Ltd. might be more entertaining than “Steve Wynn’s ShowStoppers,” the production of Broadway and movie songs now playing in the Encore Theater.
Kyle Horton doubled and came home on two balks in the top of the fifth to break a 2-2 tie, and Centennial’s baseball team held on for a 3-2 win at Palo Verde.
Zaire Franklin had 15 kills, 12 digs and three aces Tuesday as Legacy’s boys volleyball team rallied for a 23-25, 22-25 25-18, 25-17, 17-15 win over visiting Bonanza.
Hillary Clinton, under attack for using a personal email address to conduct U.S. State Department business, defended the practice on Tuesday as a matter of “convenience,” but her comments failed to calm critics, who accused her of secrecy.
Las Vegas police are investigating a report of elder abuse at Las Vegas celebrity chef Kerry Simon’s Spring Valley home. Officers responded to the southwest valley home about 8 a.m. Tuesday. Police would not say much about the case, which is still under investigation by abuse and neglect detectives.
Everybody can exhale now. If Nevada Health Link officials, insurance brokers and consumers “went into open enrollment holding their collective breath,” then today, there are sighs of relief that the state’s insurance marketplace works, said its Executive Director Bruce Gilbert.
Travelers along some of Nevada’s major highways follow the historic footsteps of centuries-old trails. Head north into Utah on Interstate 15, or west into Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and over the mountains into Pahrump Valley, and you retrace part of the Old Spanish Trail, the oldest transportation corridor in the state.
Jack Trent shot an even-par 36 at TPC Las Vegas on Tuesday to lead Palo Verde’s boys golf team to a 190-198 win over Coronado.
It didn’t take a great deal of time for Spring Mountain coach Ed Cheltenham to realize he was going to have a special group of players this season.
Francis Spivey, 43, served in the U.S. Air Force from August 1990 to July 2014, when he retired as a master sergeant. He donned his uniform one last time Feb. 25, and went to the open stairwell of his apartment building armed with an AR 15.
Margaret Rudin, the woman convicted of killing her millionaire husband in one of Las Vegas’ most celebrated trials, should have her motion for a new trial heard, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
Disney and “Alice in Wonderland” director Tim Burton are getting back in business, this time with “Dumbo.” The Oscar-nominated filmmaker is attached to direct a live-action version of the animated classic.
Lawmakers in Utah voted on Tuesday to bring back the use of executions by firing squad if lethal injections are unavailable, becoming the only state in the nation to permit the practice.
Members of the Nevada high court respond to trial testimony that a justice told attorney Nancy Quon in advance of FBI raid of her office and others.
Houston Texans defensive lineman Jadeveon Clowney, the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NFL draft who was injured for most of his rookie season, has been bitten by a pit bull belonging to a teammate, a media report said on Tuesday.