The shotgun bucked against my shoulder and the clay target disappeared in cloud of orange and black dust. At that moment, a smile came to my face. Not because the shot was something spectacular — it wasn’t — but because it was the first clay target I have broken since having shoulder surgery in July.
Winning tickets in the nearly $1.6-billion Powerball lottery were sold in California, Florida and Tennessee, officials said on Thursday, leaving at least three people to split the record-setting jackpot.
In its ongoing quest to make college more stilted, more politically correct and generally less fun, the University of California has found yet another way to foster a culture of anonymous tattle-taleism.
The bus driver who struck and killed a woman who was walking on the sidewalk just west of the Strip early Saturday fell asleep, according to a woman driving next to the bus before the crash.
Distracting, annoying, often trivial, repetitive and even inaccurate. I’m not referring to Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s 2016 State of the City speech. I’m referring to the tweets that flashed on a monitor during her remarks Jan. 7.
Bailey Thomas has a lot to think about these days, what with basketball season going on and college to prepare for.
It completely slipped her mind that her time playing with sister Samantha is starting to wind down.
Militants launched a gun and bomb assault killing at least six people in the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, police said, in an attack that followed a threat by Islamic State fighters to put the country in their “spotlight”.
The New York Giants are set to name offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo as their new head coach, according to media reports on Wednesday.
Nevada officials on Wednesday assured advocates in Clark County that any process to privatize Medicaid services for the elderly, blind and disabled will move slowly and will be transparent.
Otis Holland’s demeanor shifted nearly as much as he did in his chair Wednesday, as the former Las Vegas pastor denied allegations that he raped several minor girls and sexually assaulted an adult woman.
Some of the top performances for the week of Jan. 4-9.
Help has arrived for travelers who’ve resolved to avoid spending their tourism cash in countries with poor human rights and environmental records.
Striped bass are feeding on shad outside Las Vegas Wash. Most fish weigh around 2 pounds.
Put on your shorts and T-shirts, Las Vegas. A warm-up is headed this way.
Prosecutors say the father of a 3-year-old boy found dead in a New Jersey park killed the child because he had become a hindrance to the father’s relationship with a teenage girl, CBS News reported.
The latest boys basketball coaches poll.
The latest girls basketball coaches poll.
The Nevada Department of Education awarded more than $3.6 million to the Clark County School District for the immediate placement of social workers and other mental health professionals in the neediest schools.
The dire prediction that ride-hailing companies were going to grab market share away from Southern Nevada taxi companies was realized with taxi trips down 0.45 percent in 2015. But don’t cry too hard for the cab companies.
U.S. Olympic gold medalist skier Picabo Street was charged with assault and domestic violence after an alleged altercation with her father, The Salt Lake Tribune reported on Wednesday.
State utility regulators on Wednesday rejected a call to stay new rooftop-solar rates for net metering customers despite a daylong hearing that saw dozens of homeowners ask for a delay while the Dec. 22 decision is reconsidered.
The Metropolitan Police officer who was arrested Monday on domestic battery charges was arrested four years before on similar charges, but that case was dismissed, the Clark County district attorney’s office confirmed Wednesday.
Yet another local housing project is on its way back from the dead.
Letters from James Collier, Tony Higgins, Patrick S. Cater and Lee Mallory.
Why do golfers have fun playing the game? Is it just the fact of being on a golf course?
Residents in a North Las Vegas neighborhood are being allowed back into their homes after a five-hour barricade that started Wednesday morning, police said.
The woman killed in a rollover crash on Summerlin Parkway early Wednesday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
With the Powerball jackpot soaring to unprecedented amounts — $1.5 billion as of Wednesday — ahead of the next drawing, the lotto craze continues to sweep the nation.
A friend of mine is having trouble with his century plants, agave and cactuses turning yellow in June and July. These plants are in a rock yard with hand watering. They are 2 years old.
When Las Vegas was first proposed as a host site for the 2014 World Financial Group Continental Cup of curling, many laughed and shook their heads. The tournament — or bonspiel, as they say in curling — in Sin City ended up being a smashing success.
