A fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada’s main north-south highway for almost 24 hours in October was caused by rainfall that seeped through a compromised cover and reacted with metallic sodium, according to a report released Thursday.
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The FBI is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the person or people responsible for wrapping bacon around a central Las Vegas mosque’s front door handles Sunday morning.
As soon as the dog was released, it was clear something was wrong. “My baby,” Arturo Arenas-Alvarez said in halting English as a Henderson police K9 ran toward his sport utility vehicle, which sat nearby in a parking lot. “I’ve got my baby.”
Two adults and three children were identified as the people killed in a small-airplane crash in Bakersfield, Calif., on Saturday, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said.
When a mysterious light streaks across the night sky, social media lights up too. Speculation swirls. Some of it serious. Some not.
Lakeisha Holloway’s path to the Strip seems to have passed out of homelessness and back again. And now the woman accused of driving her Oldsmobile onto a busy sidewalk Sunday, killing one and injuring dozens of others, faces a murder charge.
The woman arrested in connection with a crash that left one woman dead and sent dozens of pedestrians on the Strip to area hospitals Sunday night told police she was stressed and tired, an arrest record shows.
A car plowed into pedestrians on the sidewalk Sunday night on the Strip, killing one person and injuring 37 people, six critically.
Goodbye, fall. Hello, winter. Winter will begin at 8:48 p.m. Monday with the shortest daylight hours of the year.
A hand-painted sand urn, about the size of a grapefruit, sits on display in the Noble family’s Las Vegas residence.
Emulating American entertainer Dean Martin, a 12-year-old boy growing up in 1960s Rome picked up a pool stick. That boy, Stefano Pelinga, pool cue in hand, would go on to nab multiple international billiards titles in a career spanning three decades.
In response to a string of protests that have disrupted Mass services across the valley, the Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas wonders why we all can’t just get along.
By the time the first Faraday Future rolls off the assembly line at the company’s 3 million-square-foot automobile plant at North Las Vegas’ Apex Industrial Park in late 2017, a large portion of the company’s 4,500 employees will be furnishing their new homes, buying groceries and living the Southern Nevada lifestyle.
Metro is looking for a man in connection with an armed robbery of a convenience store.
A question lingers in Boulder City: How could city officials not notice that the head of the city’s animal shelter was needlessly killing dozens of animals for years?
The upcoming European Parliament elections are set for June 6-9. Over 270 pro-democracy organizations, Nobel laureates and political and civic leaders—including former heads of state and government and EU leaders—have signed an open letter urging newly elected EU leaders to defend democracy. Today, the need for immediate action to defend democracy is not just a […]
Daily highs around 110 and morning lows near 85 are forecast by the Las Vegas office of the National Weather Service from Saturday through Thursday.
A man was shot and killed by police after pointing a rifle at officers in a downtown Las Vegas apartment complex, according to police.
This was the Henderson Police Department’s second officer-involved shooting in 2024, officers said.
The shimmering object that seemed to have sprung up in the desert outside of Las Vegas has spurred news reports in the U.S. and abroad.