Congress passed the federal omnibus spending bill so that we could find out what’s in it.
Letters from Esther Weinstein, Steve Bayliff and Robert Pursell.
While “I want to lose 10 pounds” and “I want to make more money” tend to be popular pledges, successful people think bigger, better and more specific. Check out nine New Year’s resolutions successful people make every year.
A judge gave a Reno hospital permission Tuesday to conduct more tests to detect brain activity on a young Las Vegas woman who has been kept on life support after being declared brain dead in May.
Even after three decades, Mike Moeller had a familiar reaction to news that he and others taken hostage in 1979 at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran finally will receive compensation for their 444 days of captivity.
After 11 educational non-conference games, the UNLV Lady Rebels close out a month-long, six-game road trip at Fresno State on Wednesday, in both teams’ Mountain West Conference opener.
There are some things you need to know if your plan is to party in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve.
A Nashville native and member of the Dartmouth College swim team drowned in a pool in Sarasota, FL, the day after Christmas.
Huge airline profits. New planes. Longer routes. Improved airports. Heightened attention to safety. Throw in an estimated 3.7 billion passengers for 2016 … and you’ve got a seriously busy aviation year ahead.
When in doubt — and doubt surrounds most of the basketball teams in the Mountain West at the moment — it would be easy to side with Steve Fisher. He gets the job done at San Diego State year after year.
At least 110 journalists around the world were killed over the past year, according to a new report that warns of “the increasingly deliberate use of violence” against reporters.
The Philadelphia Eagles announced they have released coach Chip Kelly from his contract.
The curtain is set to be raised on the 18-game Mountain West schedule. Here’s the predicted order of finish:
With New Year’s Eve rapidly approaching, Time teamed up with the online residential real estate site Trulia to see which U.S. cities are most likely to spend the first day of 2016 nursing a hangover.
The quote goes like this: Seize the moment, because some opportunities don’t come twice.
In the past two years, a stretch of downtown Las Vegas from touristy Fremont Street Experience to gritty Maryland Parkway has seen high-profile openings such as Container Park, The Venue events center and Natalie Young’s Chow restaurant.
Two vehicles sat parked side by side in a west valley gym parking lot at different times overnight Tuesday. Only one of them was driven away.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 14½ years in federal prison for using a stolen identity to unlawfully traffic in drugs and launder money.
Republican George Pataki, 70, told his supporters he is dropping his 2016 bid for the U.S. presidency, the Boston Globe reports.
A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving under the influence of drugs in a bus stop crash that killed a 6-year-old girl and her grandmother.
An electrical house fire displaced a Henderson family and caused almost $400,000 in damage Monday afternoon, officials said.
To ring in 2016, more than 300,000 people will travel from all over the world to see a fireworks display on the Las Vegas Strip or party past midnight in downtown, and in the 1980s, that wasn’t very different.
A Mesquite man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a child pornography charge for uploading images of child pornography onto the Internet and possessing thousands of images and videos of child pornography, including some depicting child rape.
Mike Tyson has been added to the growing list of people who have tried out the popular new hoverboards this holiday season … and lost.
We know Kentucky has problems filling its budget gaps, but a state judge’s Christmas Eve gift was a little extreme.
It may seem hard to believe, given the months of hype and speculation, that record-shattering opening and the merchandise — so very much merchandise — but movies other than “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opened in 2015.
The owners of a Portland-area bakery who refused on religious grounds to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple have paid about $144,000 in damages despite their ongoing appeal of the discrimination case, a state official said on Tuesday.
Virgin America and China Southern Airlines on Tuesday announced a code-share agreement to offer booking and travel between China, southeast Asia and several Virgin America destinations across the United States, including Las Vegas.
A man accused of killing a woman in North Las Vegas earlier this month was taken into custody in Southern California, police said Tuesday.