This is the first in an occasional series of stories about faith traditions in the valley, called My Faith. In the opening story, we ask Muslims what they would like others to know about their beliefs.
Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve’s father died Saturday in Las Vegas from injuries he suffered in a fire on Tuesday, according the city of Reno’s website.
Apparent move of “Crazy Girls” means at least one piece of the hotel’s legacy will carry on.
The Northwest League’s final baseball playoff berth was on the line on Saturday at Cimarron-Memorial.
Mike Wood went 3-for-4 with four runs and three RBIs in the opener and 1-for-3 with a double, a run and two RBIs in the nightcap Saturday to help host Lincoln County’s baseball team secure the No. 1 seed for the Division III Southern League tournament with a sweep of White Pine.
With Democrats united in opposition, the Republican-controlled U.S. House last week approved a resolution that would balance the federal budget in a decade with no new taxes but $5 trillion in cuts to domestic programs other than defense.
Clark County School District’s overall graduation rate showed no improvement in 2014, but hard-fought gains are happening at individual campuses, including Eldorado High School.
The Clark County elections warehouse has a history of problems that have required the attention of engineers for the better part of a decade but the county decided in 2008 to pay $11.8 million for the property anyway.
A collision left a teenager seriously injured and a woman who left her driving lane arrested on a DUI charge Friday night, Las Vegas police said.
Breast cancer survivor Sandra Rinker wasn’t only participating in the 20th Annual Susan G. Komen Southern Nevada Race for the Cure on Saturday on behalf of her own struggle.
The most racist places in America are in the rural Northeast and South, according to a new study based on Google search data published in PLOS ONE.
Rachel Nichols of CNN and Michelle Beadle of ESPN and HBO posted on Twitter that Floyd Mayweather’s camp has banned them from covering Saturday night’s fight between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
Relief pitcher Scott Rice has a 1.29 ERA in nine games this season for the 51s in his comeback from season-ending elbow surgery last year. Less than 10 months removed from surgery, he said he’s almost back to his top form.
American Pharoah was the winner in the 141st Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
I want you to meet a pair of very dedicated golfers. They love golf and participate monthly in organized golf events. They work on their games and can tell you how long they drive the ball. One shares how proud she is of her new driver; the other can tell stories of when he was third man on his college golf team. Both wear big smiles when on the course.
Two days before the Riviera closes its doors for good, six lucky people will be chosen to share a $145,000 prize.
Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a girl on Saturday, the couple’s second child and a great-granddaughter to Queen Elizabeth.
Seattle’s annual May Day march turned violent Friday, with protesters hurling rocks, wrenches and burning objects at police officers — three of whom suffered what authorities described as serious injuries.
Judge Andrew Gordon, after three days of testimony that concluded April 16, said the pilots, led by Airline Professionals Association Teamsters Local 1224, could not walk off the job.
If you’ve ever seen a Rolls-Royce with a painted pin-stripe down the side — that long, thin dead-straight line that goes from the just behind the headlights to just before the taillights — you’re seeing the artwork of Mark Court.
SurveyMonkey CEO and husband of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Dave Goldberg, died unexpectedly on Friday night, his brother wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday.
Nevada’s top judge wants to dig into problems plaguing the guardianship system far beyond the Las Vegas Valley.
Friday’s first-day number for “Age of Ultron” trails only the $91 million opening-day record set in July 2011 by Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.” But it is an impressive 4.5% ahead of the $80.8 million opening day of “The Avengers” three years ago.
A benefit of living in Las Vegas is you can talk Floyd Mayweather’s dad and uncle into teaching your kids how to box like a champ.
Chances are we all have cancer to some degree and don’t know it, said Dr. Brian Lawenda from 21st Century Oncology. On March 12, he led a discussion on anti-cancer nutrition at Desert Vista Community Center.
Knowing what to do, and what not to do, when buying a car can mean the difference of hundreds or even thousands of dollars over the term of your loan and the life of your vehicle. Before ever setting foot in a dealership, make sure you’ve done the necessary preparation to put yourself in a position to leverage the best deal possible. Here are 30 tips to purchasing your first car seamlessly.
Motorcycle racing fans attending Friday’s EnduroCross race at Orleans Arena saw camera angles of a sporting event they’ve never seen before on their smartphones thanks to a Las Vegas-based company that produced images from a camera mounted on a drone that flew above the action.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao meet Saturday night for the world welterweight unification title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Here’s a quick look at the two boxers.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and other dignitaries gathered in front of the Nevada State Museum at the Springs Preserve to fill a time capsule with items from the state’s 150th anniversary and lower it into a concrete vault on the property.
Saturday is Grandpa’s day. If Gramps is a sports fan, he’ll be smiling Saturday because two glamour sports of his youth — boxing and horse racing, former kings of the sporting world in the 1950s — will have awakened to assume their regal status in the American consciousness.