Facing record numbers of calls for service, county fire chief Greg Cassell on Tuesday instead urged people to only call 911 “for a true medical emergency, fire or police emergency.”
A Las Vegas mechanic was awarded nearly $6.6 million Friday in a lawsuit accusing a local doctor of striking his car shortly after both men left the auto shop where he worked.
A mobile clinic parked in Las Vegas this week is offering locals a chance to undergo free brain scans and help researchers better understand the brain.
White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday — a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state’s steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
From a permit for high heels in Carmel, Calif., to a jacket from San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy, former “Jubilee” showgirl Diane Booth and her boyfriend, bartender John O’Donnell, had an exceptional weekend getaway.
Federal plans to saddle Nevada with burying the nation’s most potent radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain were bemoaned Tuesday by the state Commission on Nuclear Projects and American Indians who would be most affected.
UFC president Dana White vehemently denied an ESPN report that the Las Vegas-based organization is in “advanced” talks to sell the world’s largest mixed martial arts organization.
Three suspects have been identified in the recent vandalism at Devils Hole in Death Valley National Park, according to the National Park Service.
The murder case against three men accused of storming into a southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor armed with handguns and killing a clerk is expected to be presented to a grand jury, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Las Vegas police are giving an update about the robbery and carjacking in the 1400 block of Bow Creek Court last Friday that ended with police shooting the suspect.
The Gold Spike in downtown Las Vegas is giving one lucky winner the chance to live out their “Real World” dreams by staying in the suite that housed the cast of season 31.
Terence Crawford, the WBO junior welterweight champ, says the plan is to win Viktor Postol’s WBC title when they meet July 23 at the MGM Grand Garden, then go after the other 140-pound titles.
The Clark County coroner declared the March 28 death of a 19-year-old near Sloan a suicide on Tuesday.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority says there’s a potential loss of $15.8 billion in economic output in Southern Nevada if it is blocked from demolishing the shuttered Riviera.
Nevada’s legal tests to determine if drivers are impaired by marijuana have no scientific basis, according to a study by the nation’s largest automobile club that says those laws should be scrapped.
A federal judge halted Staples Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Office Depot Inc., effectively ending a bid to unite the two biggest U.S. office suppliers into what the government argued would be an unchallenged giant.
The UNLV men’s golf team has won three of its past four tournaments and finished second in the other one. UNLV begins play in an NCAA regional on Monday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and the federal judge presiding over his criminal case alleging they violated his constitutional rights to a speedy trial and attorney of his choice.
The Smith’s Division of Kroger Co. is looking to hire about 250 people in Southern Nevada.
At first glance, it has all the trappings of San Diego Comic-Con. However, there’s not a superhero in sight. Instead, the nearly 23,000 attendees of RuPaul’s DragCon are here for men glammed-up as women.
A state board Tuesday approved a $107,000 contract to conduct an outside assessment of the taxi industry in the Las Vegas Valley.
A search warrant reveals that a Minnesota doctor saw Prince twice in the month before his death, including the day before he died, and prescribed him medication.
The Magic Kingdom finally seems to be getting the hang of Hollywood magic. Once upon a time, Disney just couldn’t get a handle on the movie business. For every few “Iron Man”-style blockbusters, the studio had to dig itself out of the crater left by at least one “Lone Ranger” bomb.
The Strip’s Grand Bazaar Shops will provide a touch of the Windy City to the Las Vegas Valley this fall. The shopping plaza has announced it will become home to Chicago pizzeria Giordano’s, marking its first location in Southern Nevada.
Major League Baseball says it is reviewing Washington Nationals slugger Bryce Harper’s confrontation with an umpire to decide whether he should be disciplined.
Internal differences are killing OPEC and its ability to influence the markets has all but evaporated, top Russian oil executive Igor Sechin told Reuters in some of his harshest remarks ever about the oil cartel.
The Bureau of Land Management has pulled the plug on a public-private partnership in Northern Nevada aimed at shrinking the size of a wild horse herd southeast of Carson City through the use of contraceptives.
U.S. stocks surged to their biggest gain in two months on Tuesday after the Chinese government moved to stimulate the world’s second-largest economy. That gave a big boost to energy, chemicals and machinery companies.
Nevada is renewing its efforts to attract Chinese tourists after shutting down a Beijing tourism office it operated for a decade.
A Las Vegas police officer suffered minor injuries, and his patrol vehicle has extensive damage after a crash in the central valley Tuesday morning.