Mario Cuomo, the three-time Democratic governor of New York who turned down several invitations to seek the U.S. presidency, has died at the age of 82.
A woman whose Delta Air Lines flight was diverted to Salt Lake City Wednesday morning has given birth at a local hospital.
Skye Canyon, Huckleberry Park and Tule Springs. The North View takes a look at what the year has in store for the northern area.
A puppy called Penny could be reunited with her worry-stricken U.S. owners by week’s end after she went on a nearly 2,400-mile road trip that took her to an Iowa truck stop and a Pennsylvania pet hospital, her family said on Tuesday.
With a barrage of fireworks exploding from casinos on the Strip, thousands of revelers shivered and cheered at midnight to welcome 2015 to Las Vegas.
Get ready to thaw, Las Vegas. The National Weather Service has issued a hard-freeze warning for just one more day, lasting until 9 a.m. Friday.
The Las Vegas Fire Department responded to four separate cooking-related, noninjury fires Thursday between about 4 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., prompting fire department spokesman Tim Szymanski to remind people that cooking fires are completely preventable.
Garrett Gagne, 22, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, was lying on an unlit road at about 4 a.m. when he was struck by a Chatham police car responding to an emergency call, police said in a statement.
A second autopsy on a 27-year-old California woman whose body was found in the desert near Pahrump in September has come up inconclusive for a cause of death.
Led by Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota, Oregon defeated Florida State 59-20 on Thursday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, in the first-ever College Football Playoff semifinal.
Nevada’s three juvenile correctional facilities are failing to seek education reimbursements that could save about $632,000 annually, according to a recent state audit.
The number of mentally ill patients waiting in valley emergency rooms for psychiatric facility placements significantly decreased in December, with only 29 people in that situation as of Tuesday. That’s a surprising new low for a population that had been climbing, pushing several emergency rooms to capacity and forcing them to close to new patients in 2014.
Madame Tussauds Las Vegas is introducing “The Hangover” Experience, an 1,100-square-foot room that includes re-creations of the trashed Caesars Palace suite, a wedding chapel and a wrecked police car, as well as wax figures of Alan (played by Zach Galifianakis) and Phil (Bradley Cooper).
When the cops showed up to a subdivision Wednesday night in Oldsmar, Florida, it wasn’t to break up a loud party or for any sort of bacchanalian revelry typical of New Year’s Eve. Responding deputies found the decapitated body of 48-year-old Maria Suarez Cassagne alongside garbage cans outside of the Tampa-area home.
Clark County School District’s magnet program expansion will increase the number of magnet seats by about 25 percent over two years. The problem is transportation, which the district plans to greatly reduce by more than $30 million.
Las Vegas firefighter organization Operation Fire H.E.A.T. will replace Christmas presents for three children who were displaced in a house fire Wednesday.
North Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a robbery suspect.
As the new year calls for changes, Henderson has several projects expected throughout the community in 2015.
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of shooting his 15-year-old girlfriend to death.
Chris Giles’ condition wasn’t life threatening, but his symptoms Thursday morning jeopardized the investment he and wife, Nikki, had made in their New Year’s week in Las Vegas. Still, the couple was on their way to a cure from nonstop drinking.
With the new year comes a chance to look at what’s ahead for the Summerlin area. Retail developments such as Downtown Summerlin and Village Square are welcoming new stores and restaurants, while Tivoli Village plans to complete its second phase. New homes and more high-end communities are also set to come online in Summerlin.
When the party was over, garbage truck drivers turned on their lights. And the massive work to cleaning up the New Year’s Eve confetti-lined celebration on the Strip began.
Police in Tennessee said hackers have found a way to take over smart phones and extorts owners using pornographic images.
Two obsessed Oregon Ducks football fans plunged into the end zone of holy matrimony in front of the Rose Bowl Thursday morning.
Votes won’t be cast until 2016, but the next White House occupant will have an extremely busy 2015.
The wife of the police chief in Peachtree City, Georgia, is in critical condition with a gunshot wound, the Peachtree City Police Department said Thursday.
Troy Brouwer scored a powerplay goal with 13 seconds left in regulation as the Washington Capitals rang in the New Year with a thrilling 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks at the outdoor Winter Classic on Thursday.
Former U.S. Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel said on Wednesday he would head a Nevada company that develops and markets cannabis throat lozenges and other products in states that have taken steps to legalize weed.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a church in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Gombe during a New Year service, wounding eight people, an official for Nigeria’s Red Cross told Reuters on Thursday.
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