NFL fans got an eyeful — even if it was preseason — as Red Rock Resort debuted new screens in their sports book.
Nevada has received $1.6 million in AmeriCorps grants, money that will be used to aid and promote volunteer efforts targeting a host of causes, from education and rural healthcare access to environmental restoration and veteran services, the governor’s office said Thursday.
Suspended attorney Barry Levinson, a convicted player in the scheme to take over and defraud homeowners associations, was handed a second stiff prison sentence Thursday, this time for stealing more than $1.1 million from his clients.
Police are hunting for a man detectives said strangled his mother in the south valley Thursday.
New episodes of “Sesame Street,” the iconic and beloved children’s television show, will start premiering on HBO this fall.
Valley water officials do not expect a toxic mine spill in Colorado to cause any measurable problems at Lake Mead, but they are stepping up their sampling program just to be sure.
Her screams, and the thumps of fists on her flesh, were so loud that neighbors called security, who found her naked and bound.
Since National Cupcake Day is today, we offer these five local cupcake places to get your appetite ready.
Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan is backing away from plans announced in June to retire at the end of the 2015-16 season.
The nation’s top military officer teamed up with the winningest college basketball coach Thursday to let airmen at Nellis Air Force Base know what makes great leaders.
Elements of a deal struck by Switch and Nevada Power Co. to keep by the data storage company as a customer of the utility for at least the next three years are detailed in a new filing with the state Public Utilities Commission.
UNLV basketball coach Dave Rice spoke from a hallway adjacent to the Mendenhall Center’s practice courts, several of his players gathering inside that doorway as the likes of James Harden and Kevin Durant and Dwight Howard and Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul competed in drills. They watched every dribble, soaked in every pass.
MGM Grand employees gave Clark County teachers a head start on the school year, donating thousands of crayons, folders, bottles of glue and other supplies needed to run a classroom. Teachers picked up the supplies Thursday at The Mirage.
NBC has given a six-year contract extension to Jimmy Fallon, keeping him as host of “The Tonight Show” through the fall of 2021.
An eight-month jail term has been imposed on a former Mohave High School teacher and athletics coach who admitted smoking pot with students in Bullhead City, Ariz., and sending nude cellphone pictures of himself to one of them.
A former Boulder City rodeo trainer, accused of sexually assaulting five female victims, was sentenced to up to five years in prison Thursday and ordered to register as a sex offender.
A man who police said was shot dead by a civilian as he tried to rob a woman last week was identified Thursday by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Today we celebrate the 80th anniversary of Social Security. Since its inception, America’s Social Security system has undergone numerous changes. Originally, Social Security was intended to pay only retirement benefits to the primary worker. However, in 1939 the law changed to add survivors’ benefits and benefits for the retiree’s spouse and children. In 1956, disability benefits were added.
All eyes will be on Nevada on Oct. 13 for the first of six Democratic presidential primary debates. That the state was chosen to host the Democrats’ first meaningful showcase of its presidential field says everything about Nevada’s importance in the nominating process. Southern Nevada, in particular, has a substantial Hispanic population, a large labor presence and a vast middle class with stagnant wages: the kinds of voters Democratic candidates should be courting before next year’s first-in-the-West caucus.
What do Uber and marijuana have in common? The fear they instill in those who resist change to the entrenched status quo.
The solar industry puts power into the grid, meaning NV Energy has to produce less power. NV Energy then sells that solar power to its customers. What’s wrong with that? What a deal!
Summertime can be harsh. You need to protect your children from the scorching sun, deep waters and angry bees. But that is not all! Here are seven other deadly dangers every parent should be aware of this sunny season.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Henderson middle school student who killed herself in late 2013 after finding that the family could not claim the Clark County School District violated their daughter’s constitutional rights.
Scientists in California have released 96,000,000 ‘shade balls’ into reservoirs to help with the state’s ongoing drought.
A suspicious package caused the closure of a Las Vegas post office Thursday afternoon.
A Connecticut judge on Thursday approved the largest portion yet of a settlement in which the estate of the mother of the gunman who carried out a 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school will pay out $1.5 million to families of 16 victims.
One of two men killed in an apparent murder-suicide in the west valley was identified Thursday by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A compilation of never-before-heard audio recordings by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain now has a release date: November 6, the director of his film biography said.
“Tarzan” is the “best ape ever,” and though the musical, based on the 1999 Disney animated film, was not a Broadway hit, it should have Super Summer Theatre audiences swinging from the trees at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
The Rampart Boulevard sewer installation project’s major sewer construction components have been completed.