It would take more than a decade and cost at least $30 billion before the shuttered underground dump site at Yucca Mountain could begin accepting shipments of highly radioactive waste, according to experts on the controversial project.
Arbor View’s Nick Stevenson dropped Legacy receiver Marquell Evans for a 7-yard loss during a goal-line stand early in the third quarter, and the host Aggies went on to a 26-14 victory over rival Legacy.
Fireworks went off in the background as Liberty hoisted another Sunrise Region championship trophy Friday night. The Patriots had set off plenty of their own during the game.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says a plane carrying four people crashed Friday evening in Elko.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Friday was the latest high-profile person to attend the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” but he became the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage.
A week after one of the biggest days in mixed martial arts, the sport gets set for one of the busiest 24-hour periods in history on Saturday.
Coronado’s Zoe Lier had five kills and two blocks Friday to lead the Sunrise Region to a 25-15, 25-16 win over the Sunset Region in the Class 4A Senior All-Star volleyball game at Boulder City High.
Prosecutors have dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas man who was accused in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman in the central valley last month.
Las Vegas police are searching for the man who took off after a fatal crash Thursday night.
A Las Vegas sports book will take the first-ever wagers on an e-sports competition this weekend thanks to a quick administrative approval by the chairman of the state Gaming Control Board.
Police assisted by the FBI pressed an urgent appeal for public help Friday in finding a Kansas newborn a day after her mother was shot to death in her home, insisting the week-old girl was imperiled during a disappearance the police chief considered vexing.
The public will get a chance to see that 1¼-ton glass dragon sculpture at the Lucky Dragon Hotel a little earlier than expected.
A spokesman for Faraday Future confirmed that construction of the electric carmaker’s production facility at North Las Vegas’s Apex Industrial Park is on hold until a yet-to-be-determined date in early 2017.
Singer Sharon Jones, the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings who found success after working for years as a prison guard, died Friday of pancreatic cancer, according to her Facebook page. She was 60.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s New Markets Tax Credits program encourages investment in traditionally underserved communities by providing developers with a tax credit when they invest in low-income communities. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman called the tax credits “the energizer we have been waiting for.”
A 24-year-old man was indicted this week in a fatal shooting just east of the Strip.
Last year’s Division I state champions return five starters.
The valley will warm up over the weekend and might see some rain next week, according to the National Weather Service.
The Miners return seven letter winners in their quest to secure the program’s first playoff berth.
A hiker was airlifted Friday to University Medical Center after falling about 25 feet within Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting.
The Gators return nine lettermen after winning their fifth straight state title last year.
Ten handicappers post their college football best bets for Saturday.
The Spartans return six lettermen and should be improved.
A bobbing sea of white foam spewed out of a Northern California airport hangar and flooded city streets on Friday.
The Spartans return three starters and hope to be improved.
The Miners have no returning letter winners and will be rebuilding.
In a letter Thursday, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller called on the president to “abandon any plans to unilaterally designate” new national monuments in the Gold Butte area of northeastern Clark County and in the Owyhee Canyonlands of southeastern Oregon, near the Nevada border.