Nevada set a third straight quarterly record for its number of employers. The state had 62,500 employers in its unemployment insurance system in the second quarter, the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported Thursday.
If this baseball thing doesn’t work out, maybe New York Mets rookie pitcher Noah Syndergaard will take up acting.
Nevada gaming regulators on Thursday approved the $360 million sale of the Tropicana Las Vegas to regional casino giant Penn National Gaming and the transaction is expected to close next week.
“Miss Independent” will now have two dependents. Singer Kelly Clarkson announced during a show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles that she’s “totally pregnant.”
The city of Yerington in Lyon County grew a little bit bigger Friday after the federal government completed the transfer of public lands to local control.
U.S. businessman Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, on Thursday said he would not back a higher minimum wage for American workers as such a move would hurt the nation’s economic competitiveness.
Further revelations about Josh Duggar have surfaced following the news that he molested five underage girls (including two of his sisters) as a teenager, leading to the cancellation of his family’s TLC reality series “19 Kids and Counting” in May.
A former Nevada correctional officer who pleaded guilty to supplying inmates with marijuana has received a suspended prison sentence and placed on probation, the attorney general’s office said Thursday.
Former President Jimmy Carter said on Thursday he will start radiation treatment for cancer on his brain later in the day.
Caitlyn Jenner could be charged with manslaughter following her car accident in Malibu earlier this year that left one dead.
Harrah’s New Orleans gaming revenue climbed more than 26 percent in July, reversing a nearly 30.7 drop a month earlier, which casino officials blamed on a citywide smoking ban that began in April.
Nevada is receiving a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense to protect and restore sage grouse habitat within the Navy’s training grounds around Naval Air Station Fallon, officials announced Thursday.
An extra orange hue made for a nice sunrise Thursday morning, but it wasn’t so good for air quality.
Former President George W. Bush made a fundraising appeal Thursday to supporters of his brother’s presidential campaign.
Television actress Shannen Doherty, best known for her roles in “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charmed,” is currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer, celebrity publication People magazine said Wednesday.
A California cop escaped injury Tuesday when a fellow officer mistakenly fired on him in a dark stairwell.
A day after Donald Trump declared that Heidi Klum is no longer a “10,” the iconic supermodel fired back at the Republican presidential candidate in a video posted on Twitter.
A global company that specializes in marketing to millennials has acquired a travel website based in Las Vegas.
A star of Australian hit television show “Prisoner: Cell Block H”, the women’s jailhouse drama that screened globally throughout the 1980s, has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl 31 years ago, a court official said.
California prosecutors have broadened their civil lawsuit against popular online ride-sharing service Uber, alleging that its background checks missed people previously convicted of murder and sex crimes, court records show.
Having Jackson Browne talk to you about making music: Can you imagine what that must be like? Unreal, right? But that’s exactly what some students at Artists for Peace and Justice’s Audio Institute in Haiti got to experience not too long ago when the legendary songwriter stopped by.
St. Louis police fatally shot a black teenager on Wednesday who they say pointed a gun at them, and later faced angry crowds, reigniting racial tensions first sparked by the killing of an unarmed black teen in another Missouri town a year ago.
A motorcyclist critically injured Wednesday evening in a crash on North Jones Boulevard has died, the Clark County coroner’s office said.
Former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer was treated for a gunshot wound following an apparent failed suicide, authorities said.
A federal lawsuit is demanding that Costco label much of the shrimp it sells as the product of human slavery.
A man whose body was found near the Stratosphere late Wednesday morning has been identified, the Clark County coroner’s office said Thursday.
New York inmate David Sweat, who pulled off an elaborate escape from an upstate prison in early June, has been indicted on two counts of escape in the third degree and a count of promoting prison contraband, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Thursday.
For a minute, Christine Malloy was very worried. As a frequent flier, she was used to rough landings once in a while. But Malloy could tell this landing was different.
The world’s most-used search engine is so powerful and national elections are so tight, that even a tiny tweak in Google’s secret algorithm could swing the 2016 presidential election, according to Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.
Four years ago, Claire Sinclair was named Playboy’s Playmate of the year, she was 20 years old so she couldn’t even drink in public, but now she’s a star in “Pin Up” at the Stratosphere Hotel, and no one in Las Vegas Instagrams like she does.