In the time that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was onstage for the opening keynote of CES Wednesday, 130 new countries were added to the online on-demand streaming television service. Now, nearly 200 countries get it.
Ken Griffey Jr., whose timeless swing and grace in the outfield made him one of the most exciting players in baseball history, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in voting results announced on Wednesday.
The Nevada attorney general’s office needs to strengthen its monitoring of settlement funds designed to help victims of the foreclosure crisis in Nevada, a legislative audit has found.
With questions swirling around North Korea’s claim of conducting a successful hydrogen bomb test Wednesday, one expert who directed U.S. nuclear tests at the former Nevada Test Site says North Korea’s below-ground blast doesn’t fit the bill for an H-bomb.
With Wednesday being the official start of CES 2016 — as well as National Technology Day — we looked back at prior shows and the key tech products that have been unveiled over the years.
There was an Instant Classic on ESPN on Monday night, and then on Wednesday morning, there was this, in bold, black letters, on the University of Oklahoma athletic website: WEST VIRGINIA, KANSAS MBB GAMES SOLD OUT.
Striped bass are hitting live shad and anchovies. One angler found good action by slow trolling at about 100 feet in water pushing 120 feet deep.
It appears Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight champ Holly Holm will get her wish of fighting sooner than UFC 200 in July.
Glenn Cook, the paper’s senior editorial writer, will serve as interim editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal while a permanent newsroom chief is hired, likely within 60 days, Publisher Jason Taylor said Wednesday.
No, that wasn’t reality TV star Mike Rowe charged with robbing a bank earlier this week.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a legal effort by the owners of the Dotty’s and Jackpot Joanies slot machine taverns to throw out Clark County regulations covering the operation of the gambling devices.
A Texas trooper, who arrested a black motorist found hanged in jail three days later, was indicted by a grand jury on perjury charges on Wednesday.
Staff with the Public Utilities Commission say in recent filings that the multimillion dollar exit fees required by state regulators to allow three major Nevada gaming companies to leave Nevada Power as retail customers are legal and proper.
The Clark County School Board, following a year of public disputes over sex education, teacher contracts and other heated issues, rang in 2016 with a divisive vote Wednesday to select its next leadership.
The Los Angeles County district attorney has declined to bring criminal charges against comedian Bill Cosby stemming from sexual assault allegations by two women over separate incidents, one dating back to 1965 and the other to 2008.
Millennials, who are defined by the Pew Research Center as those born between 1981 and 1997, aren’t earning as much as previous generations earned when they were the same age, according to the Atlantic.
One man was found dead and another was arrested early Wednesday after a homicide Tuesday night in the central valley, Las Vegas police said.
So your spouse’s appeals, your kids’ pleas and your own nagging concerns about your own health haven’t been incentive enough to kick the habit? Maybe this will be the thing that finally convinces you: Your smoking may be harming your pet.
The UNLV Rebels begin a two-game road trip tonight as they face the Colorado State Rams in Fort Collins — a place head coach Dave Rice has yet to get a win with the Rebels.
The rooftop-solar company SolarCity said Wednesday it has been forced to eliminate more than 550 jobs in Nevada because of the new net metering rate approved by the state Public Utilities Commission on Dec. 22.
New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton announced Wednesday he was remaining as head coach.
The jackpot in the Powerball lottery has ballooned to an estimated $500 million ahead of its drawing on Wednesday, making it the sixth largest payout in North American history, the operator of the multistate game said.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will not pardon a man convicted with his nephew in a case dramatized in the television documentary “Making a Murderer,” despite online petitions seeking their release, his office said on Wednesday.
Las Vegas police are responding to noninjury crashes again, the department announced at a news conference Wednesday morning.
Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James is concerned for troubled Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel.
We make them. We try valiantly to accomplish them. And, ultimately, we fail.
The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state’s probate judges on Wednesday not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court last year legalizing gay marriage.
Nonprofit Project 150, which offers support and services to homeless high school students in Clark County, plans to mark its fourth anniversary with a celebration and fundraiser from 6 to 10 p.m. Jan. 28 at Public School 702 in Downtown Summerlin.
For some, few things are more comforting on a dark, cold and rainy day as a nice warm cup of soup.
Arizona authorities investigating a pot-growing operation in Holbrook said they found a 5-year-old child assisting in the cultivation.