At least 15 people were forced from their homes after a blaze destroyed one unit and damaged two others at a northwest valley apartment complex Saturday, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
Joseph “Beau” Biden III, an Iraq war veteran who served as the attorney general of Delaware and was a son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died at the age 46, the White House said in a statement Saturday night.
A 9-year-old boy is dead after his father accidentally ran him over when they were cleaning their garage in Henderson on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Breakups are beasts — they claw at your heart and tear apart your world with one blow. Therefore, I have decided to refer to the different kinds as species.
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Las Vegas, triple-digit weather and all.
Kim Caipa praised young people Saturday for the passage of Brady’s Bill — named after her dead son — that could save the lives of high school and college students in Nevada.
Much of Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval’s sweeping education agenda overcame key legislative hurdles on Saturday, as lawmakers passed bills aimed at poor-performing schools, boosting academic performance, and giving incentives to educators.
A man was shot to death by at least one Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper after he was told to get away from rising flood waters on a road and began fighting with a trooper, an official said on Saturday.
Administration officials Saturday presented to the full Nevada Assembly an amendment to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s compromise tax plan that seeks to assuage concerns of some Republicans and win enough votes to assure passage.
It’s clear the millennial generation aren’t fond of slot machines. They prefer Angry Birds over Blazing 7s. New gaming regulations headed for Nevada that will soon let gamblers do both.
Former Bishop Gorman pitcher Tyler Wagner will be called up by the Milwaukee Brewers from Double-A Biloxi to start Sunday against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Miller Park. The 24-year-old right-hander will be making his major league debut.
Three hiking trails that were shut down in the Spring Mountains after the Carpenter 1 Fire in 2013 have reopened, according to the U.S Forest Service.
Mormon leader L. Tom Perry, the oldest member of the faith’s highest governing body and who spoke against same-sex marriage, died from cancer on Saturday at age 92, the church said.
While it is completely natural for human beings and other animals to walk and jump, replicating those processes robotically is one of technology’s greatest challenges.
A throng of surviving family members gathered Friday for the grand opening of the U.S. Forest Service’s Spring Mountains Visitor Gateway. They dedicated a memorial to 14 men who died when a transport plane crashed near the snow-capped, Mount Charleston peak in November 1955 while headed to Area 51 to test the U-2 spy plane.
Economical at two movies for the price of one and more forgiving of fussy kids, the drive-in is far from fading into the sunset.
New York Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh played with a broken foot during Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday night, which was won 2-0 by the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Chicago Bulls continue to zero in on Iowa State’s Fred Hoiberg and remain confident he will become their next coach.
Faced with wildly divergent estimates of the cost of moving Nevada’s current public employee pension system to a defined contribution plan for new workers, a state lawmaker said Saturday he is abandoning the effort this session.
The NBA playoffs and Steph Curry’s daughter joining in on press conferences weren’t the only things happening in the sports world this week. In fact, a handful of athletes with Las Vegas ties made sports headlines this week.
What better way is there to celebrate reaching 1 million subscribers on YouTube?
Nearly a half-century after publication, an Allen Ginsberg poem about a homosexual encounter has divided a small Connecticut town and led to the resignation of an award-winning English teacher.
A magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings in Tokyo, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no reports of damage since the quake was extremely deep.
When Henderson native Charles England retired from his career as a pipefitter, per tradition, the United Association union gifted the monies charged for the advertisements in his testimonial booklet to him. England had no intention of keeping the retirement gift — instead, he started an educational scholarship with the money.
The Yorkie died after Prince Shembo, 23, an outside linebacker drafted by the Falcons in 2014, told the girlfriend he kicked her dog while alone with the pet at his suburban Atlanta apartment on April 15, according to Gwinnett County Police.
Warner Bros.’ “San Andreas” is no box office disaster, with the 3D action pic drawing $18.2 million on Friday, setting it on track for a projected weekend haul of $47 million at 3,777 locations and smashing past early estimates that put it around the $40 million mark.
The NBA Conference Finals ended on Wednesday night. The NBA Finals don’t start until Thursday.
James Woods already has a fictional high school named after him. Now, the Academy Award-nominated actor is hoping to add a real World Series of Poker bracelet to his list of accomplishments.
A strong convention calendar translated into the best April for visitation ever recorded, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Friday. The convention authority said 3.5 million visitors were in Southern Nevada in April, a 2.4 percent increase over the same month a year ago, the largest monthly percentage increase of the year.
Kaycee Nitta, Natalie Weckesser and five of their Basic High School classmates were hurt June 9, near an abandoned building on Bureau of Land Management in the far southeast valley.