Tony Stewart has a cantankerous nature, which until 2014 mostly had served him well, in the manner that having a cantankerous nature served the great A.J. Foyt well.
When Tony Sanchez was hired as UNLV’s football coach in December 2014, then-Rebels graduate assistant C.J. Cox was struck by something he said.
A sweep of a Baghdad neighborhood is underway in the search for three American contractors missing in Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
Asian shares slid to their lowest levels since late 2011 on Monday after weak U.S. economic data and massive falls in oil prices stoked further worries about a global economic downturn.
Across the United States, there were 64,747 places were you could legally buy a gun as of Dec. 2015, according to Safer America. That may be hard to visualize, but a new online tool aims to put that into perspective.
Being in the nonprofit world in Las Vegas can have its challenges.
A 25-year-old Florida man was arrested for driving under the influence after he fell asleep in a Taco Bell drive-thru.
It’s reality-check time for the Golden State Warriors and the bettors who put money on the team to break a major record. Stephen Curry is not in Michael Jordan’s airspace yet, and he’s probably not getting there this season.
Nevada’s foreclosure markets refused to go along in 2015.
Gold mining companies are running a charm offensive with their biggest shareholders on the thorny issue of executive pay, keen to hold onto investors angry about ongoing generous compensation after four years of dire stock returns.
New tablets and phones are constantly emerging. But with all the new technology, nothing has overcome the pesky problem of a dying phone.
Dominick Cruz is back. Not only did the former Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight champion reclaim his belt with a split decision victory over T.J. Dillashaw on Sunday night in Boston, but Cruz is back in the pound-for-pound rankings as well.
High-profile sports betting and golf course magnate Bill Walters and his wife, Susan. have listed their 8,299-square-foot mansion at $4.9 million.
Tim Duryea was preparing for basketball season, about to begin his head coaching career at Utah State when his phone rang. It was then-UNLV coach Dave Rice letting Duryea know he was about to lose one of his best players in forward David Collette.
Look for the 88th Academy Awards to spread the love — assuming Johnny Avello is correct. Avello, director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas, has “The Revenant” winning best director (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) and actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), with the other four top awards spread out among “Spotlight,” “Room,” “Creed” and “Carol.”
Residents in a Mobile, Ala., neighborhood said they are upset after flyers were dropped on their lawns asking the community to join the Ku Klux Klan for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, WPMI reported.
The Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada initiated “Jewish University” to spark interest and discussion in a range of topics touching on Judaism. The new endeavor gets its name from a desire to offer in-depth lectures, long and short courses, and other events that challenge thinking and understanding.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is hoping to woo Nevada’s caucus voters as a hard-charging outsider who will clean up Washington’s ways.
Five members of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors have been named among the list of 30 finalists announced Monday for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team.
January marks the start of the last class Le Cordon Bleu in Summerlin will ever see: The school, which operates under Career Education Corp., will cease offering classes nationwide after this month.
SpaceX’s latest attempt to land a rocket upright on a platform in the Pacific Ocean failed in a spectacular fashion on Sunday.
When it comes to identifying UNLV’s next head basketball coach, those investigating potential candidates should consider a theme based on a series of children’s books.
Who said gentrification was going to be easy? Downtown Project’s Todd Kessler has applied for a special-use permit for an “Old Vegas” themed restaurant-tavern called Atomic Kitchen right next to its well-known sister dive bar, Atomic Liquors, on East Fremont Street.
Lady Gaga is off to a very good start to 2016, scoring both a Golden Globes win and an Oscar nom, but Linda Perry spoke out on Monday to say that she doesn’t think the pop star is so deserving of the latter.
British golfer Jamie Donaldson, who won the point that secured the 2014 Ryder Cup for Europe, faces a couple of weeks out of the sport after cutting his hand in an accident involving a chainsaw.
To boldly grow where no man has grown before. That has been the mission of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly two years, where they have tried to cultivate edible plants in microgravity.
A man accused of hunting police officers was in custody on Monday after an officer in the central Ohio village of Danville was found dead, his gun and cruiser missing, Knox County Sheriff David Shaffer said.
It was less than an hour after Dominick Cruz had completed an improbable comeback by once again strapping the Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight belt around his waist when he got the inevitable question as soon as he entered the post-fight news conference.
A Swedish doctor has been charged with drugging, raping and kidnapping a woman he allegedly imprisoned for six days in a windowless cement bunker, Stockholm’s chief prosecutor says.
For nearly all of his 81 years, Rudi Kraft has been a man on the move. He’s roamed Europe, Canada, Mexico and the American West. But most of those dusty, hard-won miles have been driven right here in Nevada.