Federal authorities announced plans Friday to round up as many as 200 wild horses to save them from starvation in the mountains outside of Las Vegas.
A judge is weighing whether an involuntary manslaughter charge should be dropped for a Massachusetts teen accused of encouraging a friend to kill himself.
Just one day into the high school football season, Cimarron-Memorial already has made a coaching change.
After a devastating fire that burned most of their gear, Vegas Balloon Rides managed to gather gear from its parent company and get back in the air 10 days later.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is investigating allegations that white members of a campus fraternity shouted racial slurs at a black female student earlier this month.
Sarah Palin condemned ESPN over Curt Schilling’s suspension for his Internet meme comparing Muslim extremists to Nazis and also ripped the network’s Las Vegas radio affiliate in a long Facebook post.
Evidence fails to support claims that the diabetes drug Actos causes bladder cancer, a lawyer for the drug’s manufacturer said Friday.
For Tony Sanchez, the perfect marriage is UNLV and Las Vegas. It’s a union that’s rarely been made, at least by coaches who have overseen the Rebels’ football program.
It’s no secret that crowded airports can be a hassle and a giant time-suck for cross-country travelers. Soon, a workaround may be available for corporations and the ultra-rich. The concept is this: You don’t need an airport if you can land and take off from your own front yard.
For the last 50 years, Nevada’s popularity has surrounded Las Vegas and Reno, but it wasn’t always that way. Before gaining statehood, Nevada was a known mining state. Of those towns and cities built for silver digging, few survived — while more than 150 years later, others thrive.
A 4-year-old boy who died after being found in a hot car had been there at least two to three hours, Las Vegas police said Friday.
A former UNLV football player who claims a surgeon botched a spinal surgery and ended his football career told a jury Friday he went from “playing football to being damn-near crippled” within weeks of the procedure.
Kids are big on themed birthdays. Superheroes, dinosaurs, princesses, you name it — we’ve seen them all. But one Australian family went all out for this 6-year-old’s birthday.
Less than three weeks before Shauna Tiaffay was bludgeoned to death in her Summerlin apartment, confessed hitman Noel Stevens asked an acquaintance to pawn a diamond ring.
The war of words between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Ronda Rousey continued Thursday, when Mayweather responded to comments Rousey made about him to TMZ Sports on Wednesday.
The Loveless, a scorching psychobilly act from Dayton, Ohio, is embarking on a cross-country tour starting this week, and Las Vegas is one of the lucky cities on its itinerary.
With song titles from his band that equate people to excrement and a brand-new book titled “You’re Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left,” Corey Taylor may seem like a misanthrope miffed with mankind — and, well, maybe he is.
The lawsuit filed this week against the state’s sweeping school choice program did not shock Gov. Brian Sandoval. Both opponents and fans of the education savings accounts, which offer about $5,000 in tax dollars for students to use at private or religious schools, fully expected a legal challenge when the governor signed legislation creating the new program.
Angela Stabile is a multitalented woman who created a successful production that has spawned two spinoffs and will soon open a third. She’s willing to put her butt on the line to make a show work — literally.
At 84, Mary Luebeck had beaten the odds. She left a life of poverty in Puerto Rico, worked hard in New York and Chicago, then retired to Las Vegas, where she also beat cancer. In the Las Vegas chapter of her story, Luebeck tried to improve the odds of others.
Southern Nevada visitation continues to roll as Las Vegas recorded its second-busiest month of 2015, tallying 3.7 million tourists to the destination, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Friday.
Despite being born with ony one arm, Katelyn Pavey had no problem recreating the recent viral video made by Texas softball player Marisa Arriaga, who lifts a bat off the ground with her foot, bounces it behind her back, kicks a softball off a tee, juggles it and then crushes it into the woods.
Kenny Sanchez grew frustrated with every inside pitch, every side-armed delivery that backed him off the plate. He knew what it meant. He understood the message that was being sent. Older brother was making a point.
The Las Vegas Valley ranked highly on two measures of nontraditional home sales.
Dozens of refugees — most likely fleeing war-ravaged Syria — probably suffocated inside a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway, authorities said Friday.
In a soon-to-be-released update to the Chrome browser, Google will no longer allow sounds and videos to load in background tabs. You will have to click on a tab to load a video or streaming media file — even if it is set to auto-play.
Children who don’t get enough sleep might be more tempted by food, a new study suggests.
American sprinter Justin Gatlin couldn’t run down Usain Bolt at the World Championships, but a cameraman riding on a Segway ran over the world’s fastest man as the Jamaican took a victory lap Thursday after winning the 200-meter dash in Beijing.
Southern Nevada’s largest professional association has named its officers and board of directors for 2016.
A mother of two filed a lawsuit against the city of Surprise, Ariz., after she was forced from her home under an ordinance labeling repeated 911 calls a “nuisance.”