Las Vegan Kurt Busch always has been steady at Phoenix International Raceway with a 13.6 average finish in 26 starts. He put on a show Saturday with single lap and average speeds during practices that suggest he’s the driver to beat.
Motor sports handicapper Micah Roberts gives his top-10 picks for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Good Sam 500 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona.
Bishop Gorman senior Vashti Cunningham won the women’s high jump at the USATF Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday in Portland, Oregon.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida narrowly won the District of Columbia’s Republican convention on Saturday, seizing his third primary-season victory as a critical contest looms in his home state.
Friday’s winds leave the valley but the cool temperatures are here to stay.
Follow the link for the schedule and results (when available) for the 2016 Boys Las Vegas Invitational volleyball tournament.
The federal government does not have to explain to a Nevada man why his wife — a grandmother and farmer in Mexico — has been denied entry to the U.S. for more than 20 years under “alien smuggling” rules, a federal judge has ruled.
The Mountain West Conference tournament continues today with the San Diego State Aztecs and the Fresno State Bulldogs battling for the title. We’ll be live-blogging from Thomas & Mack Center.
A man suspected of intentionally driving a snowmobile into teams of two mushers near the front of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was arrested Saturday in a Yukon River village.
The Dallas Cowboys reportedly do not plan to pursue troubled quarterback Johnny Manziel, who was waived by the Cleveland Browns on Friday.
Less than 24 hours after canceling a rally in Chicago, Donald Trump was suddenly pulled midspeech into a protective ring of U.S. Secret Service agents charged with guarding his life after a man leapt over a barrier and rushed the stage in Ohio.
As winter gives way to spring, the homebuying market tends to heat up as well.
A long line of high school students wrapped around Zappos Plaza on Saturday morning.
By this fall’s football season, Boulder Station, Green Valley Ranch Resort, Sunset Station, Santa Fe Station and Palace Station will all house enhanced video capabilities, new television monitors at individual seats around the book and improved electronic displays for betting lines.
Two teens were hospitalized Saturday afternoon after being hit by an SUV in the northeast part of the valley, according to Las Vegas police.
A manufactured house caught fire Friday night in the Henderson area, according to a Henderson Fire Department press release.
Zab Judah’s manager fired back at the Nevada Athletic Commission after it suspended Judah for allegedly providing false information on his license application. Judah was scheduled to headline a boxing card Saturday at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.
For the past 20-plus years, local high school students eager to follow that star have had exactly one place to go: the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. This school year, however, the options have expanded.
There are times it seems Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy has spent as many years on the stump as in the saddle, pouring forth his views on federal lands and the Constitution from the dusty middle of nowhere.
The second night of the Neon Reverb music festival kicked into full gear as attendees crowded Fremont Street at the several venues shows took place, with performers ranging from Neon Indian to Sage Francis.
As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiancé grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. The water was more than 2 feet deep indoors when they left, she said.
Starsha Williams sat in court early Monday, listening as the judge granted the mother of two the temporary protective order she had filed against her longtime boyfriend, Michael Betterson.
Almost four years after Marion Brady-Hamilton’s home-based hummingbird rescue operation ran afoul of state regulators, she has returned to nursing abandoned babies and injured adults — this time with all the proper paperwork in place.
When Peyton Manning officially retired last week, a lot of people were telling stories about him on the Internet, and telling shorter stories on Twitter. About having met him somewhere by happenstance, and having had a pleasant interaction with the most affable of pro quarterbacks.
Mike Tyson recently spent $2.5 million to move four doors down from his $1.5 million house in Seven Hills.
During UNLV’s first spring practice in full pads Saturday morning, a crowd of about 60 fans huddled near the north end zone on one of the two fields at Rebel Park to watch the team’s hard-hitting, four-on-three Rebel drill.
Be it the bitter winds of the winter or the brutal heat of the summer, there’s one thing homebuyers look for to make their commute a little easier. It makes for a warmer skip from the living room to the road; it creates an instant mudroom; and, now, most Las Vegan homeowners can’t imagine life without one.
Honest Co., co-founded by movie star Jessica Alba, is denying a news report that said its laundry detergent contains an ingredient that it promised its customers that it would never use.
Las Vegas’ relationship with postseason college basketball is good — for the players, fans, schools, conferences and seemingly all parties involved. But, because of legalized sports wagering, is this madness in Las Vegas still viewed as evil by the NCAA?
“ThisBody is made for television. (No matter what anyone says.)” That’s what Lane Bryant tweeted after claiming that NBC and ABC refused to air its positive-body-image commercial, featuring plus size models.