Las Vegas police have broken up what they think is the largest animal fighting ring in state history, they said Thursday, the day after detectives recovered about 550 hens and roosters from a home in the 4700 block of Stanley Avenue.
The Las Vegas NHL franchise has hired Wil Nichol as its director of player development as general manager George McPhee continues to build his hockey operations staff.
Henson puppets talk trash in improv comedy that splits attention and sometimes competes with itself.
A private company will manage 96 crossing guards in North Las Vegas for the next two years, shifting oversight responsibility away from the police department.
Lisa King was on the cusp of women breaking into the fight world in the mid-2000s.
Las Vegas may unwittingly benefit from the outbreak of the Zika virus in South Florida as Southern Nevada’s already seeing a surge in business this summer, especially from Asia and business travelers.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn wrote a letter Thursday to the soon-to-be unemployed workers of the Trump Taj Mahal casino, accusing their union of inciting them to destroy their own jobs by participating in the longest strike by Atlantic City’s main casino workers union.
Wynn officials say they’ll be adding hundreds more construction workers as the building of a $2 billion Boston-area casino starts after years of legal fights.
A California man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the nearly fatal beating of a man Saturday at a Strip resort.
Members of the Nevada State Contractors Board validated 133 homeowner complaints totalling more than $1 million.
Loved ones on Thursday mourned two slain teenagers whose bodies were found behind a suburban Atlanta grocery store, as police prepared to move a 20-year-old suspect to an Atlanta jail.
Our music picks this week include Lord Huron and the Punks in Vegas fifth-anniversary bash.
An initiative to automatically register people to vote when they apply for or renew a Nevada license or identification card was filed this week with the secretary of state’s office.
The competition will be nearly non-stop from August 5 to 21, but here’s a list of the top local athletes and big-picture storylines to follow when the Games begin.
A California man with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison on sex trafficking charges involving a teenager.
UNLV’s Boyd School of Law is hosting a free “clean slate” event Aug. 27 to help people with criminal histories in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson seal their records.
Las Vegas-based Meadows Bank on Thursday announced that it posted net income after tax of slightly more than $4 million in the first half of 2016, 12 percent higher than the $3.58 million it earned during the same period in 2015.
The Rio Olympics officially open Friday and competition kicks into high gear on Saturday, but there are events you can enjoy today.
Firefighters have contained a little more than two-thirds of a set of Northern Nevada wildfires that once threatened a Pyramid Lake shoreline town, according to officials.
We’d heard that things were changing at the Boulevard Mall, but we didn’t know how much they were changing until we dined at Olivia’s Mexican Restaurant.
Hainan Airlines — China’s largest privately owned commercial air carrier — announced plans to begin flights between McCarran International Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport in December.
Almost 80 Russian athletes from seven sports were cleared to compete at the Rio Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, just one day before the opening ceremony.
Our arts picks this week include the immersive murder mystery “The Cat’s Meow” the Velveteen Rabbit.
The gunman accused of killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina, church last year was attacked in jail by another inmate early Thursday but not badly injured, a local sheriff’s spokesman said.
The suspect arrested in the slaying of an American woman in a knife rampage in a busy London tourist area is a Norwegian teenager of Somali origin, police said Thursday.
Lightning struck a home and caused a fire in Henderson Thursday morning.
The UFC’s newest champion isn’t backing off a bit from the big challenges he issued after winning the belt.
Las Vegas woke up to thunderstorms and cooler temperatures across the valley Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
A 63-year-old man died in a crash overnight in the western valley after a possible medical episode, Las Vegas police said.
A lot of artists talk about suffering and struggle, but few have lived them like Las Vegas artist Dave Dave. When Dave — formerly known as David Rothenberg — was 6, his father tried to kill him by setting him on fire in a California hotel room.