Periodic releases from Glen Canyon Dam mimic the river’s natural flows and deposit sand to protect archaeological sites and create habitat for wildlife and beaches for rafters.
Will Sitton, 53, was sentenced to death Monday in the fatal October 2009 beating of Brian Haskell, 68.
This was the fifth time Family Court Judge Cynthia Giuliani has dressed as a fairy godmother for a special Halloween adoption event. She said she hoped the event would encourage others to adopt or consider foster care.
UNLV will play Dakota Wesleyan in an exhibition baskeball game at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Thomas & Mack Center. It’s the first opportunity for fans to better know what to expect this season.
Longtime UFC welterweight contender Carlos Condit was paying close attention on Friday and Saturday when he joined a group of about 20 fighters for the UFC’s veteran summit at Red Rock Resort.
Monday’s Google Doodle gives users the chance to help a wand-wielding cat named Momo make its way through a wizard academy and defeat ghosts by doodling lines on the screen.
Election Day is more than a week away, but it’s already too late for Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump to win over roughly a fifth of American voters.
Bill Cosby’s lawyers accused prosecutors Monday of trying to use the “tainted, unreliable memories of women, now in their senior years” to build their sexual assault case against him and will seek competency hearings on any accusers allowed to testify.
For many people, it’s hard to know what to say or do when someone they love is ill. And for the patient, asking for help can be difficult.
As the director of production for On Stage Enterprises, which owns all of the “Legends in Concert” shows nationally, including the residency show at the Flamingo Las Vegas, Toni Lee has spent her career prepared to make quick adjustments based on performance mishaps and unpredictable situations. But when a diagnosis of breast cancer was shared with her on — of all days — Sept. 11, 2007, 48-year-old Lee couldn’t find a way to justify the disease choosing her body.
When patients are going through cancer treatment, oncology nurses are some of their main sources of medical contact and comfort. Although nursing can be personally fulfilling, it’s definitely not an easy job. So what makes someone choose it as a professional path?
The trial is starting for a former South Carolina police officer captured on video shooting an unarmed black motorist.
The Nevada Paranormal Task Force talks about their team’s goals and investigate the former home of the late comedian Redd Foxx in Las Vegas.
Silvio Gazzaniga, the sculptor who designed the World Cup trophy, has died. He was 95.
“American Horror Story” is no stranger to throwing in callbacks to previous seasons, seemingly tying all of its installments together in a big, bizarre interconnected universe.
Week 8 of the NFL season features the Minnesota Vikings traveling to face the Chicago Bears for Monday Night Football.
Meadows Bank on Monday released its operating results through the third quarter of 2016, and reported that net income was $6.49 million in the first nine months of 2016, up 10 percent from $5.88 million during the same period in 2015.
Police in Delaware say a car in Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcade hit three other vehicles. The car Biden was riding in was not involved, and he was not hurt.
Duke is in a familiar place to open the college basketball season.
Italy’s premier pledged Monday to find temporary housing for all those displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes in a central mountainous region, as the nation’s strongest temblor in 36 years pushed those needing assistance to more than 15,000.
The Clark County School District faces a bus driver shortage that has the system relying on substitutes who might not know routes very well.
The FBI will have to comb through thousands of newly discovered emails for classified material in its renewed examination of the email practices of Hillary Clinton and her aides.
Here are the Nevada Preps Player of the Week nominees for Week 10 of high school football.
As could be expected, the betting public is backing the Minnesota Vikings, who are favored between 4½ and 5½ points at Chicago.
Donald Trump rallied supporters Sunday in Las Vegas, homing in on the news that the FBI is looking into additional emails potentially tied to its investigation of the private server Hillary Clinton used while secretary of state.
A study of mice infected with Zika showed the virus caused lasting damage to key cells in the male reproductive system, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Lucas Gutierrez was told he wouldn’t make it past 18. At 450 pounds, doctors labeled then 15-year-old Gutierrez as “severely morbidly obese.”
The Las Vegas Valley can expect cooler temperatures through the week, meteorologist Jim Harrison said.
Pope Francis traveled to secular Sweden on Monday to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a remarkably bold gesture given his very own Jesuit religious order was founded to defend the faith against Martin Luther’s “heretical” reforms five centuries ago.
As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton race toward the presidential finish line, their parties are battling to determine whether two of Southern Nevada’s congressional districts turn from red to blue.