The country’s decade-old Renewable Fuel Standard requires increasing levels of plant-based ethanol and biodiesel to be added to traditional fossil fuels. It was supposed to be good for the economy and great for the environment. It has been neither — and it could get even worse.
Nevada’s senior senator is putting the finishing touches on a long career in public service. Presumably, he will then come home to teach and to comment on public affairs from his unique perspective as a major participant in the governance of our great nation.
The Main Event continues at noon today at the Rio with Day 1B, and the true measure of the size of the field will come Tuesday when the majority of players register for Day 1C.
Until 2005, I watched just about every big soccer match at the Crown & Anchor British Pub — the holy grail of Las Vegas-area soccer bars — across the street from UNLV.
Black laborers were lured onto job sites with the promise of substantial new job contracts and deprived of pay for work performed, according to a lengthy discrimination lawsuit that could soon be headed to arbitration.
Dilson Herrera, now 21, already has played in 43 games and has more plate apperances with the Mets than in Triple-A, leading some to believe his promotion might have been a bit premature.
Houston, you may have a problem. The rumored romance between Houston Rockets star James Harden and Khloe Kardashian went public in Las Vegas over the Fourth of July weekend.
The largest multistate training exercise ever conducted by the Army Special Operations Command is scheduled to begin July 15 on private and public land in seven states in the Southwest and Southeast — but not Nevada.
Sandra Clara McClary, 26, is facing child neglect and reckless endangerment charges, and police accuse her of taking her daughter out of a vehicle and leaving her in the roadside spot where a neighborhood resident discovered her.
Rescue crews are looking for a man who jumped off a boat at Lake Mead National Recreation Area Sunday afternoon, park officials said.
The Las Vegas Fire Department was a bit busier this 4th of July compared to last year’s, but no major fires or injuries were blamed on fireworks, the department said Sunday.
Burt Shavitz, co-founder and namesake for natural care product company Burt’s Bees, has died, the company said on Sunday. He was 80.
The disaster that for weeks now was predicted to stain the Major League Baseball All-Star game in terms of which American League players might start never occurred.
The woman who was pregnant when she was stuck by a car near the Strip and later lost her prematurely born baby has died, the Clark County coroner’s office said.
Rep. Joe Heck announced today he’ll give up his House seat to challenge former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto for the U.S. Senate seat left open by the retiring Harry Reid.
As Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn wrap their first team-up there this weekend, they join a short and prestigious list.
The United States won the Women’s World Cup for the third time, crushing Japan 5-2 on Sunday with striker Carli Lloyd scoring the tournament’s fastest ever hat-trick, including a spectacular goal from the half-way line.
Las Vegas police are responding to a home in the northwestern Las Vegas Valley, where a man has locked himself inside, and gunshots were reportedly fired.
Bullhead City police said the 8:00 a.m. crash occurred at the intersection of Meadows Drive and Highway 95.
We can only promise not to harm. Never not to hurt. Because sometimes the only way not to harm is to hurt.
Immunizations and good dietary practices can help to make a trip memorable for all the right reasons.
A gunman shot and killed by police when he “engaged” them at a Henderson hotel Saturday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
According to Maine officials, a young man instantly died after he put a firework mortar on his head and lit it.
Phoenix Fire Department video shows a crew in helmets drilling into a wall during an operation that department spokesman Aaron Ernsberger said involved about 30 firefighters.
More than 1,000 inmates had been transferred from the Hualapai Unit of the prison to other corrections facilities by Sunday afternoon.
Southwestern Utah’s gorgeous Kolob Terrace sweeps from the 10,000-foot heights of the Markagunt Plateau to the cliff tops of Zion Canyon. This wild and rugged area lures campers, hikers, horsemen and fishermen.
The advisory expires about 4:30 p.m. and covers Summerlin, Lone Mountain, Aliante, Centennial Hills and Floyd Lamb State Park, the weather service said.
Chileans streamed into roads, squares and bars after their team beat bitter rival Argentina 4-1 on penalties Saturday – the South American country’s first ever major trophy.
The rollover happened about 12 p.m. near the Valley View Boulevard exit, just before the Rancho Drive exit, Regional Transportation Commission wrote in an email Sunday.
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