The Metropolitan Police Department received reports at about 9:15 a.m. Monday that a man barricaded himself in a home on the 7700 block of Cherry River Drive, near Buffalo and Alta Drives, Metro spokesman Lt. Steve Summers said.
A driver died Monday afternoon near Moapa after a crash on U.S. Highway 93 north of Las Vegas.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt reported raising nearly $1.2 million in 2016, a record-setting figure for a Republican to attract two years out from a general election.
Japan could catapult to become the third-largest casino market globally when the first casino lights are turned on in the early 2020s.
Eduardo Estrada-Puentes was captured in Mexico after three-year manhunt.
The woman was believed to be in her late 20s, and her body was found just before 9:50 a.m. near North Lamb Boulevard and Stewart Avenue, police said.
Irvine, California-based restaurant Habit Burger Grill opened its first location in North Las Vegas on Jan. 16 — its fourth in the Las Vegas Valley — and celebrated its grand opening with free food.
Legacy Traditional Schools was set to break ground on its first Nevada campus in North Las Vegas.
The Henderson Strong Comprehensive Plan, in which residents outlined their top priorities for the city, is expected to go before the Planning Commission in February, followed by the City Council for approval in March.
Turkish media reports say police have caught the alleged gunman who killed 39 people during an attack on a nightclub in Istanbul during New Year’s celebrations.
Gene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon, has died at age 82, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on Monday.
It was “one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations” in FBI history — and to this day remains the only unsolved skyjacking in the United States.
Five players to watch in the UNLV basketball team’s games at the Thomas & Mack Center against San Diego State at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Air Force at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Nominations are still open for the second annual Heart of Education Awards, which recognizes outstanding Clark County teachers for their service in public education.
Naked City Pizza has announced it will expand its operations to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where it has signed on to be the exclusive pizza concessionaire for all of the venue’s tracks.
Northern Ireland’s shattered unity government will be dissolved next week to make way for an early election demanded by the coalition’s main Irish Catholic party, the secretary of state for the British territory announced Monday.
Oman said Monday it accepted 10 detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office, part of his efforts to shrink the facility he promised to close.
UNLV basketball coach Marvin Menzies juggled his starting lineup on Tuesday, and the result was an upset victory at New Mexico. He probably will stay with the same starting five when San Diego State visits the Thomas & Mack Center this Tuesday.
Crashes are up in Clark County and across the state, partly due to the ongoing increase in new residents and visitors.
Desert dwellers know it best: Our air is dry. Dry skin, eyes and nasal passages are the norm for Las Vegas Valley residents, and for recent transplants, it can make for a rude awakening and aggravation of pre-existing conditions.
Monica Crowley, the foreign policy adviser tapped for a White House job under President-elect Donald Trump, will relinquish the post, a transition official told Reuters on Monday.
A sign on the wall at Breakfast & Grill Cafe states that the restaurant’s seating capacity is 60. It fell 59 diners short of that during two recent dining-review visits — one in the afternoon, the other shortly after it opened at 7 a.m.
A U.S. law enforcement official says the FBI has arrested the wife of the Orlando nightclub shooter.
A shooting attack at an electronic music festival in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen on Monday left five people dead, including two Canadians, an Italian and a Colombian, authorities said.
Bail bondsmen found a grenade while serving an arrest warrant on Monday, prompting evacuations at a southeast Las Vegas hotel.
Officers took cover and searched a neighborhood after hearing gunshots in the southeast valley early Monday.
One man was shot near a downtown parking garage early Monday morning.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the Las Vegas Valley should see mostly sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service.
A man is dead after he was stabbed multiple times in the southwest valley late Sunday.
A Turkish cargo plane crashed Monday in a residential area just outside the main airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 37 people on the ground and in the plane.