If you’re pining for a freshly cut Christmas tree this holiday season, you could go to one of the pop-up, tented tree lots that dot the Las Vegas Valley this time of year. But if you’re feeling more adventurous, you could round up the family and make a day of it by traveling to more forested parts of Nevada, as well as Utah, Arizona and California, to search for a perfect tree to harvest yourselves.
Hoping to fill some of its nearly 500 teaching vacancies, the Clark County School District reached out to local veterans Saturday morning, focusing on two key traits that suit veterans to classrooms — an affinity for structure and discipline and a commitment to serving their communities.
Pahranagat Valley fell to Spring Mountain, 68-46, in the Class 1A state championship game on Saturday afternoon, ending their eight-man record 104-game winning streak.
Pahranagat Valley lost to Spring Mountain, 68-46, in the Class 1A state championship game on Saturday afternoon at Clark High School in Las Vegas, ending their eight-man record 104-game winning streak.
Sophomore quarterback Tyler Williamson accounted for four touchdowns, and Desert Pines pulled away in the second half to down Spring Creek 39-6 in the Class 3A state final Saturday at Bishop Gorman.
Eric Brooks guided Spring Mountain to a shocking 68-46 victory over Pahranagat Valley on Saturday, snapping the Panthers’ national eight-man record 104-game winning streak and clinching the Golden Eagles’ first football state championship.
Connor McDavid, the Edmonton Oilers’ budding superstar center, has accepted his leadership role calmly. Despite being only 19, he is the face of the franchise, which is going through a rough patch of road in November after a fast start in October.
President-elect Donald Trump demanded an apology from the cast of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” a day after an actor in the hit show delivered a pointed message about diversity to his running mate who was in attendance.
Authorities have found a week-old baby who was reported missing Thursday after her mother was shot to death in Kansas, police said Saturday.
An air-ambulance plane taking a heart-disease patient to a Utah hospital crashed in a parking lot in northern Nevada, killing all four people aboard and sending up explosions and flames.
Jimmie Johnson comes into Sunday’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway as the favorite to win his record-tying seventh Sprint Cup championship, and he showed during Saturday’s final practices that he’s worthy of the status.
Micah Roberts, a former Las Vegas sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1994, analyzes the field for Sunday’s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida.
The Nevada Army National Guard’s “Wildhorse” 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry Regiment — the same one that returned from a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan in 2010 — is expanding to become part of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team in Boise, Idaho.
UNLV men’s basketball continues its six-game homestand and tips off the Global Sports Classic at Thomas & Mack Center tonight hosting the Cal State Fullerton Titans.
Husband and wife Dave Kimler and Beth Tom own Santa’s Wrap, a 4,600-square-foot home decor and giftshop with an emphasis on seasonal products.
Nevada’s Office of Vital Records worked with advocacy groups to implement the new rule, bringing the process to request a gender change on birth records in line with the processes for similar requests related to birth and death certificate alterations.
Throughout the valley there are religious communities ministering to the sick and elderly, quietly keeping them connected to their faith or providing the kind of outreach that lets them know they are not forgotten.
Breaking down UNLV’s basketball game against Cal State Fullerton at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The Las Vegas Valley could see rain over the next few days, according to the National Weather Service.
One of his favorite places to practice his craft is Las Vegas, where he has performed since the ’60s. He returns to town Saturday for a show at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
An elderly man was hospitalized after a robbery in the east valley Saturday morning.
Angela Savage of Boulder City, daughter of late Indy 500 racer, joins all-female team for kart racer Abby McLaughlin of Indianapolis.
President-elect Donald Trump and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney set aside their long-simmering rivalry on Saturday and had talks likely to feed speculation that Romney could be a candidate to be Trump’s secretary of state.
Ari Goldstein and Gibran Arroyo are taking the road less traveled into the business world, starting their video-production firm right out of high school and balancing entrepreneurship with college courses.