Boulder City-based Papillon, the longest running helicopter touring company, celebrated its 50th anniversary with a golden helicopter on Thursday, bearing the number 50 to mark five decades of ferrying passengers for tours of the Grand Canyon.
UNLV finishes spring football practices with the spring game at noon Saturday at Johann Memorial Field. Returning starting quarterback Blake Decker, who is competing with two other players at the position, will take most of the first-team snaps.
A passenger was booted from a Southwest Airlines plane after what was called a “disturbance” on board.
The U.S. House voted Thursday to make permanent the IRS deduction for state and local sales taxes, a benefit targeted to residents of Nevada and a handful of other states that lack an income tax.
Hyundai helped a Texas teen send a message to her father in space and set a world record at the same time.
The NIAA’s Board of Control approved sanctioning flag football as a state-sponsored sport during the second day of its spring meeting Thursday at Sam’s Town. Currently, only Clark County School District schools participate in flag football.
For only $10, you’ll be able to see Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao meet at the MGM Grand Garden, mean mug each other, disrobe and finally … step on a scale.
A 74-year-old woman’s death in December was confirmed to be the result of car crash, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
The preliminaries are over, and it’s time for the NBA and NHL to start their marathon postseason tournaments. They’ll be playing until June, so sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
The Los Angeles Dodgers plan to erect a statue in honor of legendary trail blazer Jackie Robinson.
After deliberating for more than 35 hours over parts of seven days, listening intently to the testimony of more than 130 witnesses and reviewing more than 400 pieces of evidence, the teary-eyed men and women of the jury exchanged embraces.
Trainer Bob Baffert has three wins, three seconds and two thirds in 24 Kentucky Derby starts. His Derby winners — Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998) and War Emblem (2002) — also won the Preakness, but couldn’t pull off the Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes.
Despite taking place at Wynn Las Vegas, filming at Wynn Las Vegas and receiving $4.2 million in tax credits from the state for doing so, no one involved with “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” would talk about the movie for this column.
A former model and DJ from Melbourne, described by his former agency as having a promising future, is the latest Australian believed to have been killed while fighting alongside ISIS militants in Syria.
Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was ordered Thursday to stand trial for murder and other charges stemming from a deadly hit-and-run confrontation on the movie set of the biopic “Straight Outta Compton” earlier this year.
A public hearing to disclose the facts of a fatal officer-involved-shooting that happened in March 2014 in Jean will be held Friday morning.
A Texas man was shot dead on live TV on Wednesday following a high-speed police chase that ended when he rammed into two vehicles in an intersection.
College football star Jameis Winston was sued on Thursday in Florida court by a woman who has accused him of raping her in 2012 while she was a student at Florida State University.
Completion of the veterans medical complex in North Las Vegas that already was years late and cost millions of dollars more than planned has been pushed back another six months or more, according to a new schedule from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
A man who once faced the death penalty for fatally shooting 22-year-old Mike Portaro should get a chance at parole, a judge decided Thursday.
At least 200 former Riviera employees have signed up to throw one last hurrah in the hotel, according to Lisa LaMarca, wife of a longtime worker.
Raw sewage flooded basements in a dozen Utah homes after a massive backup Wednesday. Devin Westover, a resident impacted by the backup, said his neighbor called him to come home from work around 2 p.m.
A teenager who was missing for more than 10 years was found after she and her alleged kidnapper requested passports to get back into the United States.
Dogs are called “man’s best friend” – women’s, too – and scientists say the bond between people and their pooches may be deeper than you might think.
Getting sucked into a wormhole might be cool if starring in “Interstellar,” but if your an economics student on a sight-seeing trip it probably isn’t tops on your bucket list.
Don’t blame your children for not being motivated in the classroom — they may not have much of a say.
From a very young age, if I’ve been anything, I’ve been domestic. There is no doubt that this is my calling in life. It’s what makes me happy.
Glen Cobb and his family, defendants in an illegal gambling case that made headlines when the government tried to seize $13.2 million before criminal charges were filed, have agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges.
An Arizona police chief on Wednesday supported an officer’s decision to drive his car into an armed suspect, saying that although the move could have killed the suspect, deadly force was justified.