As if returning to practice at 8:10 a.m. Monday morning following a week off for spring break wasn’t sobering enough for the UNLV football team, it had to contend with wind gusts of up to 60 mph at Rebel Park.
Former Associated Press Reno correspondent Tom Gardner has died in Yerington after a long illness. He was 73.
The Clark County Department of Air Quality issued a dust advisory Monday due to winds.
Musiette McKinney from The Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach heard that Chris Beard, the Arkansas-Little Rock basketball coach, was in town to interview for the UNLV job that Cincinnati’s Mick Cronin didn’t want and she was so excited.
Former Strikeforce champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino will make her Ultimate Fighting Championship debut May 14 against Leslie Smith when the organization hosts UFC 198 in Justino’s native Curitiba, Brazil.
A Glendale, Arizona, mother was arrested and accused of child abuse after relatives found her three children locked in an apartment while she ran errands.
A 64-year-old gold miner from Northern Nevada said he plans to continue working after he won Nevada’s latest Megabucks jackpot for more than $12 million.
UNLV 7-foot freshman Stephen Zimmerman Jr. officially announced Monday on Twitter that he is declaring himself eligible for the NBA Draft.
Faster than a speeding bullet and impervious to lousy reviews, the superhero faceoff “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” rebounded from a smack down from critics to debut with a massive $170.1 million in North America, the sixth best opening of all-time.
Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, has given birth to her third child with husband Jared Kushner.
What had been projected to be the Massachusett’s first Las Vegas-style gambling destination has faced a series of setbacks. But now MGM Springfield is gearing up for its first full season of construction, one year later than hoped.
The man shot and killed early Saturday morning in the central Las Vegas Valley has been identified.
On the lower end of Fremont Street, where the freshly painted face of the new downtown fades and human kindness can be a stranger, angels are where you find them.
A Utah judge has dismissed domestic violence and assault charges against Olympic gold-medal skier Picabo Street.
U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada received a government watchdog group’s “dubious honor” as March Porker of the Month for blocking a bill to back inspectors general in their battles against waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement and refusing to provide a full explanation on why he did so.
When you’re new to Las Vegas, you may not be familiar with some of the road rules that many of us take for granted.
Road work ahead ■ Lanes of Stewart Avenue will be disrupted for the expansion of the detention center between Spectrum Boulevard and Mohave Road through Monday.
The U.S. House approved a partisan bill last week that Republicans claim would help guarantee fairness in the government’s review of business mergers while Democrats warn it would gut an independent process that protects competition and consumers.
Film icon Sophia Loren charmed fans at The Venetian Theatre on Saturday with memories of her rise from war-torn Italy, personal struggles, two Academy Awards and the leading men in her life.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has rejected three finalists recommended by the Chicago police board for the city’s top police post and selected the force’s current chief of patrol as the new interim superintendent, his office said.
Belgian authorities announced Monday that the number of victims from last week’s airport and subway suicide bombings rose to 35 and three more people swept up in police raids were being held on charges of participating in terrorist activities.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has vetoed legislation allowing clergy to refuse performing gay marriage and protecting people who refuse to attend the ceremonies.
A pedestrian was struck by a car and killed near Sloan late Sunday night, Las Vegas police said.
The arrest of a French citizen in the Netherlands on Sunday is tied to the arrest of another man who was described as being in the advanced stages of planning a terror attack on France.
Earlier this week we spoke with Kerry King in advance of his band’s show on Saturday at the Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Here’s the conversation.
European security agencies are searching for at least eight suspects they believe are linked to the ISIS attacks in Paris and Brussels.
An 81-year-old Las Vegas man was seriously injured Sunday afternoon when he was ejected from his pickup truck after it struck another vehicle on West Charleston Boulevard and Sky Vista Drive, Las Vegas police said.
Not all underdog stories are heart warming for the masses. For many, Jim Boeheim coaching Syracuse to another Final Four makes skin crawl. His enemies call him a cheater and whiner. His friends just call him a whiner.
It’s only a few hundred feet from the big league compound to the minor league practice diamonds at New York Mets spring training camp in Port St. Lucie, Florida. It seems a much longer distance when you are there.
Chris Beard oversaw a 17-game turnaround this season at Arkansas-Little Rock, and UNLV hopes he can pull off a similar feat at UNLV. He agreed in principle Sunday to become the Rebels’ next basketball coach, according to sources close to the search.