Organizers of the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival said Sunday they apologized to U.S. Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad after a volunteer said she must remove her Muslim headcovering to receive credentials to the event in Austin, Texas.
The first blockbuster upset of March Madness: Twitter over CBS on Selection Sunday. The NCAA said Sunday night it is looking into how a copy of this year’s tournament bracket got leaked online during the network’s extended selection show on Sunday.
The Mountain West should play a 16-game conference schedule instead of 18 so as to allow for more nonleague opportunities against top 50 and top 100 teams. Teams need more chances to schedule the sort of meaningful games league play doesn’t allow.
A possible FBI probe of ExxonMobil would be a completely politically driven move.
This week is Sunshine Week, but transparency and accountability in government should be called for every week of the year.
Justin Jones’ two-run single was the key hit in UNLV’s seven-run sixth inning as the Rebels edged Ohio State 8-7 in a nonconference baseball game Sunday at Wilson Stadium.
Showing few signs of trying to ease the nation’s tense political atmosphere, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is standing by his antagonistic campaign rhetoric, rejecting any responsibility for violence at his rallies and defending his supporters who have been charged with assaulting protesters.
The Las Vegas Valley is expected to see steady and mild temperatures for the week ahead, according to the National Weather Service.
NEW ORLEANS — Widespread flooding in Louisiana and Mississippi has damaged thousands of homes and the risk of more flooding played out Sunday as rain-filled rivers rose over banks.
NOTE: National Sunshine Week started Sunday. The American Society of Newspaper Editors in 2005 launched the first Sunshine Week, a celebration of access to public information that has been held every year since to coincide with the March 16 birthday of James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution and a key advocate of the Bill of Rights.
A man who died in a crash Wednesday night in North Las Vegas, has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
The driver of a car that hit a shuttle bus, causing it to overturn on Interstate 15 Saturday night, has been identified, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
A police officer was fatally shot in an “unprovoked attack” near a police station in a Maryland suburb of the nation’s capital, authorities said Sunday.
The Bike the Pioneer Trail event on Sunday brought out cyclists who hit the streets with a police escort.
SAN FRANCISCO — A storm brought strong winds, heavy rain, snow and high surf to California on Sunday, the fourth day of wet weather that has inundated rivers and roads and led to some evacuations.
When Tony Samuel took the head coaching job at New Mexico State in 1997, a 22-year-old student assistant named Tony Sanchez helped him make a smooth transition. Now, almost 20 years later, Sanchez is helping Samuel transition to his job as defensive line coach at UNLV.
Chinese players Carol Zi Yang and Aiwen Zhu — who were ranked No. 41 in the nation in doubles earlier this season — have helped the UNLV women’s tennis team to a 15-0 record, the best start in school history.
The driver who stole a U-Haul on Thursday night, sped through the Las Vegas Valley, shot at a citizen’s vehicle and evaded police until a patrol car rammed into it and stopped it has been arrested.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Sunday night will hold another duel in their increasingly contentious Democratic nominating marathon, two days before five states vote in crucial primaries that could set the tone for the rest of the contest.
One of two teenage girls accused of trying to kill a classmate near Milwaukee to appease the online fictional character Slender Man is being treated at a state mental hospital, the girl’s attorney said.
The father of a 9-year-old Chicago boy who was shot and killed in November has been charged with shooting three people.
With more and more jobs being created around emerging technology, schools are preparing students by introducing them to the robotics field. Over at Cimarron-Memorial High School, students have designed and created robots and learned vital engineering skills.
A list of all of the road work in Las Vegas in the week ahead.Here’s all of the road work in Las Vegas in the week ahead
Michele Johnson, president and CEO of Las Vegas-based Financial Guidance Center, said though home prices are increasing in the valley, homeownership is one of main draws for people moving to Clark County.
The birthplace of Nevada’s largest city, the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historical Park provides a quiet excursion into the past, when Las Vegas was just a welcome stopping point along a difficult and dangerous trail through the Mojave Desert to the California coast.
Earlier this year, a wife of former polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs tried to visit him at a Texas state prison with a tiny microphone implanted in her hollowed-out watch.
Disney’s second weekend of “Zootopia” is dominating U.S. moviegoing with about $47 million expected from 3,827 locations this weekend — double the launch of thriller “10 Cloverfield Lane,” early estimates showed Friday.
A criminal and internal investigation is underway at Kellogg’s after a video surfaced online that appears to show a man filming himself urinating on products on an assembly line.
The NCAA Division I men’s basketball committee will determine today which teams make it into March Madness and where they fall on the bracket. Here’s everything you need to know if you want to watch Selection Sunday.