Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War II death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the lifelong voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said Saturday.
Brad Talich has stepped down as head coach of the Desert Oasis football program, citing undisclosed “health reasons.”
Last year, Joseph Gennuso was found guilty of felony battery for his role in a bloody brawl involving members of the Hells Angels. Now he’s the face of a new Southern Nevada Water Authority ad.
A mother in Tennessee has been charged with first-degree murder and child abuse and neglect in connection with the stabbing deaths of her four young children, authorities said Saturday.
A wildfire in Northern California threatening 2,600 structures in the Sierra foothills grew to more than five square miles Saturday.
Writer and humorist Garrison Keillor served up a bittersweet farewell for some 18,000 fans at the Hollywood Bowl, as he hosted his final episode of the old-style radio variety show, “A Prairie Home Companion.”
A robber attacked the nation’s oldest full-time park ranger in her San Francisco Bay Area home this week and made off with a coin she received from President Barack Obama, authorities said.
Novak Djokovic’s 30-match Grand Slam winning streak ended stunningly Saturday with a 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (5) loss to Sam Querrey in Wimbledon’s third round.
Las Vegas businessman Sig Rogich, a former U.S. ambassador to Iceland, is pulling for the nation of his birthplace in the Euro 2016 soccer quarterfinals against France on Sunday.
A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a vehicle in the southwest valley Tuesday night.
Hillary Clinton was interviewed by the FBI about her use of a private email server as secretary of state, her campaign said Saturday, as federal investigators neared the end of the probe that has hung over her presidential campaign.
We’ll have to endure the summer heat twice before we get to see the puck drop at T-Mobile Arena for the Las Vegas Whatever-We’re-Going-to-Call-Them hockey team competing in the National Hockey League’s 2017-18 season.
A new study on the cost of green energy mandates concludes that states such as Nevada that have imposed requirements to use solar, wind and other energy sources are killing jobs and hurting the economy. But some disagree with the study.
The home office often becomes that in-between space, where the detritus of daily life mingles with the essential needs for financial well-being. An organized home office can be a gateway to productivity, both in your personal and professional life.
Q: I need to organize my garage. Yesterday, I went to throw the garbage out and I could hardly squeeze by the shovels and rakes that had fallen over. What is the best way to clean up this area?
“Summertime, and the living is easy …” — George Gershwin (1898-1937), “Porgy and Bess” American composer and pianist
George Knapp has reported on sightings, believers and the paranormal for decades as an investigative reporter for KLAS-TV, Channel 8, and a co-host of the “Coast to Coast AM” radio show.
Jon Jones will try to regain the belt that was stripped from him last year for incidents outside the cage when he fights champion Daniel Cormier in the main event of UFC 200 on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
Vashti Cunningham of Las Vegas easily cleared the qualifying height of 6-0½ to advance to the finals of the high jump at the U.S. Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon. She will attempt to make the Olympic team on Sunday.
After Thursday’s flash floods and a Friday evening thunderstorm warning for northeastern Clark County, Las Vegas Valley residents can look forward to a sunny Independence Day weekend, the National Weather Service said.
Of the 40 drivers starting Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona’s massive 2.5-mile layout, 35 have a legitimate shot to win because of the volatile nature of the track and cars being so equal.
Micah Roberts, a former Las Vegas sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1994, analyzes the field for Saturday’s Sprint Cup Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
For the next few days, the future of the Las Vegas NHL expansion team will be decided on a ranch in Montana.
Base Entertainment repeats past mistakes in letting a show’s overhead get beyond realistic sales expectations.
Las Vegas native Augie Sanchez was named men’s assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic boxing team in Rio this summer.
The 51s, one of the PCL’s top hitting teams, managed just five hits in seven innings off Tacoma Rainiers starter Cody Martin in a 9-1 loss at Tacoma, Washington.
UNLV high jumper Kaysee Pilgrim will be one of 12 trying to make the three-person American team for the Rio Olympics, a group led by Bishop Gorman High School graduate Vashti Cunningham.
If you want to choose the right steak this holiday — and for the right price — you have to know what to look for and what to avoid. Here are seven tips on choosing the perfect cut of steak while also getting the most for your money.
“I cannot work,” an abrupt June 18 text from the woman, Phoukeo Dej-Oudom, 35, to her manager read. “He’ll know I am where I am. I have to quit now.”
Bangladeshi forces stormed an upscale Dhaka restaurant where heavily armed militants held dozens of people hostage Saturday morning, killing at least six of the attackers and rescuing 13 captives including foreigners at the end of the 10-hour standoff.