The Las Vegas Valley can expect to see “near normal” temperatures over the weekend and into next week, the National Weather Service said.
An inmate died Friday morning in Northern Nevada, the Nevada Corrections Department said.
Several people were transported to local hospitals after a hit-and-run crash in the central valley Saturday afternoon.
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson has had a busy weekend. On Saturday, he was endorsed by a soon-to-retire Republican congressman. On Friday, Johnson’s federal lawsuit to gain a slot in the nationally televised presidential debates was dismissed.
Steve Wynn has two major projects on his hands, the opening of a new resort in Macau later this month and also Paradise Park on the Strip. And there’s an interesting twist to Paradise Park — King Kong.
As the casino celebrates its 50th anniversary, its bygone showroom and current theater are perfect symbols of old and new Vegas.
Outside spending groups and super PACs have reported spending $2.7 million in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race in the past week.
More than 1,000 Navajos who live without electricity in their homes soon could get power for the first time as the tribal utility buys a system of rural Utah substations and electrical lines under the terms of a decades-old deal with a power company.
Upcoming concerts will go on as scheduled at an amphitheater where a railing collapsed during a Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa concert, injuring 42 people, promoters said Saturday.
Virgin Atlantic flight 44 departed from McCarran Airport at 3:45 p.m. and was headed for London when a fire indicator in the wheel well caused the flight to turn around and head back to Las Vegas around 4 p.m., airport spokeswoman Melissa Nunnery said.
An estimated 26.5 million people watched NBC’s coverage of the Olympic opening ceremony, a sharp 35 percent drop from the record-setting viewership of the curtain-lifter in London four years ago.
Project REACH (Relief through Energy Assistance to Prevent Customer Hardships) is NV Energy’s program for income-eligible customers older than 62 or those who are medically fragile or Reserve and National Guard Members.
The site’s rich 60-year history of failed development attempts show the next developer must be better at forming and maintaining relationships, both internally within the project and externally with the black community surrounding the site.
Coronado senior forward Kennedy Koehler made an oral commitment Saturday to play basketball at UC San Diego.
The Great Recession hit Las Vegas like a storm, leaving in its wake a surplus of empty houses and financial troubles. With homes around the valley in various stages of the foreclosure process, it can be hard to track ownership paper trails, making them an easy target for squatters.
A mother of three has provoked a backlash for having a bear shot after it repeatedly broke into her Southern California mountain home.
Allegiant Air is on the rise, amid an order for 12 new planes, the company’s first labor contract brokered with pilots and no major problems cited in an audit by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Clark County School District hosted a back-to-school fair in Henderson on Saturday to help students and families prepare for the coming school year.
A coalition of outdoor sports companies in Salt Lake City voiced support Thursday for a proposed national monument in southeastern Utah that has become a flashpoint in the debate over public lands in the West.
The National Rifle Association plans to open a campaign field office in Las Vegas next week, with an eye toward defeating Question 1 in November through NRA Nevadans for Freedom.
Fountain, whose virtuosity and irrepressible wit endeared him to his native New Orleans and earned him decades of national television fame, died Saturday of heart failure. He was 86.
A man was injured Saturday morning in an altercation with a large group of motorcyclists in the southwest valley, Las Vegas police said.
Former Las Vegas cop Laurie Bisch, who ran unsuccessfully for sheriff and city council, now finds meaning restoring homes and selling them. She is a big supporter of community policing.
Deborah Athay lives and works in Lehi and says she would live in a tiny home tomorrow if there were a place to put it.
Craft beer can be found in more locations than ever in Southern Nevada as Strip properties embrace the market.
Zion National Park officials say visitation has already grown by 11 percent this year and is on track to surpass 4 million visits.
Police charged a father with manslaughter Friday in the deaths of his 15-month-old twin girls, alleging that he had been drinking before leaving them in their car seats in 90-degree temperatures.
A late-season surge of rain and snow melt made a bad year better for the Colorado River, but it wasn’t enough to lift Lake Mead out of record-low territory.
Steven Sertich has led the local charge in favor of a controversial proposal to change Veterans Affairs medical regulations so that skilled nurses can treat patients without doctors’ supervision to reduce wait times.