A man was hospitalized after a shooting in North Las Vegas early Monday morning.
The Nevada Assembly Democratic Caucus has endorsed Henderson attorney and former Assemblywoman Lesley Cohen as the party seeks to regain control of the chamber after a historic upheaval in the 2014 general election.
When it opened two decades ago, the College of Southern Nevada High School graduated an inaugural class of just 15 students willing to trade in their football games, pep rallies and band practices for a chance to earn college credit.
The third annual Pahrump Balloon Festival invaded Petrack Park on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, in Pahrump. The three-day festival featured hot air balloon shows, tethered balloon rides, carnival games, food and vendor booths and a car show.
Cheaper rents and a shortage of affordable housing elsewhere may explain why northeast Clark County has a higher concentration of the poverty than other parts of the county.
Westgate Resorts is blaming a “heavy-handed move” for the hotel management’s decision to step in and close the doors of the Elvis exhibit less than a year into a 10-year contract.
Jimmy Galusky went 5-for-5 with a home run and two RBIs, and BJ Myers pitched seven strong innings to lead West Virginia to a 9-4 win over UNLV in a nonconference baseball game Sunday at Wilson Stadium.
After four months of changes at the top, the votes are in and the Oscar for the best college basketball team goes to Kansas. The acceptance speech will be made by coach Bill Self.
Without an ideal central spot, the state basketball tournament in Nevada has alternated between Reno and Las Vegas since 2005. And that’s why the 10 Las Vegas-area schools that advanced to championship games had to travel more than 400 miles to Reno last week to play at UNR’s Lawlor Events Center.
You can almost smell the high octane, the burning rubber, the barbecue on the grill, the suntan lotion. You can almost see the questionable yellow flag that bunches up the field toward the end of the race.
In an upset victory, newspaper drama “Spotlight” won best picture at the 88th Academy Awards over heavily favored survival epic “The Revenant.” The drama about the Boston Globe’s investigation into the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal also nabbed a statue for its screenplay, while “Mad Max: Fury Road” picked up a leading six Oscars exclusively in technical categories.
An electrical fire Saturday night in the garage of a Henderson home displaced seven people and killed a pet rabbit, according to a news release from the Henderson Fire Department.
When Hunter Hopewell won a first-place award for his film “Numbskull” at the Peace in the Streets Global Film Festival, he found out via email. The same email asked if he could make it to the award ceremony at the United Nations in New York City. He had to decline because there was an inconvenient ocean in the way.
For one of the most unpredictable Oscar seasons in memory, there actually ended up being very few surprises overall. As expected, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson and Alicia Vikander took home acting awards, while DGA winner Alejandro G. Innaritu repeated his best director win.
Without an ideal central spot, the state basketball tournament in Nevada has alternated between Reno and Las Vegas since 2005.
And that’s why the 10 Las Vegas-area schools that advanced to championship games had to travel more than 400 miles to Reno last week to play at UNR’s Lawlor Events Center.
Having a relentless sweet tooth isn’t something that has to be treated like a crime at Veganbites Bakery and Coffee House, 8876 S. Eastern Ave., No. 101.
When Banessa Gonzales and April Langstaff walked through their front door Feb. 5, it was a momentous occasion: the 19-year-olds had ended an era of having no permanent roof over their heads.
Wouldn’t it be great if one could skip the long lines at the airport, breeze past security and have a first-class seat inside a private charter airplane?
The county’s Public Art Committee invited ArtPrize representatives to speak to the public Feb. 11 at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Drive, to discuss the possibility of recreating ArtPrize, a Michigan-based international art competition and film festival, in the Las Vegas Valley.
Seven years ago, North Las Vegas resident Lydia Garrett took it upon herself to stand up to some of the atrocities of North Town, the idiomatic nickname given to the city for its negative connotations.
The Heat FC Soccer Club, the competitive soccer program of the Southern Nevada Soccer Association, hosted its annual college signing ceremony Feb. 3 at Red Rock Country Club. Twenty-four student-athletes who will be continuing their soccer careers at the collegiate level were honored.
Julie McIntosh, a licensed practical nurse and the community education nurse from Compassionate Care Hospice, visited Sun City Summerlin’s Desert Vista Community Center in mid-January to talk about managing stress.
When Jennifer Vivion was 17, she was injured in a car crash on her way from high school. The first to arrive on the scene was fire and rescue. A paramedic, the mother of a classmate, took the teen under her wing.
United Way of Southern Nevada announced the appointments of Elaina Mule as Vice President of Collective Impact and Social Innovation and Angel Williams as the Vice President of Donor Engagement.
View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. Contact each individual agency for more information.
At the last second, Elon Musk’s SpaceX scrubbed plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday, again delaying an attempt to put an satellite into orbit and then land the vehicle’s first stage intact on a sea platform, a step that may eventually slash costs.
Julia Lee, assistant professor of English at UNLV and author of “The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel,” turns her attention to classic children’s television in the book “Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals.”
You are a superhero. It might not be immediately apparent, but your powers are many. You can leap high, jump far, lift heavy objects and hear things your parents would rather you didn’t. And in the new book “Dinosaur Boy Saves Mars” by Cory Putman Oakes, you may be able to singlehandedly stop a terrible interplanetary crisis.
Local graphic novelist Kenneth Lamug plans to exhibit art from his new dark children’s fantasy book “The Stumps of Flattop Hill” March 3 through May 3 at the Whitney Library, 5157 E. Tropicana Ave.
