About 200 people who gathered Friday in Death Valley Junction, California, 95 miles west of Las Vegas to remember Marta Becket, who died Jan. 30 at age 92. Becket staged her first show in the Armagosa Opera House on Feb. 10, 1968.
Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm will fight Germaine de Randamie for the inaugural women’s featherweight belt in the main event of UFC 208 on Saturday.
Mara Kemmer had a triple and three RBIs to back Morgan Ettinger’s strong pitching and lead UNLV to a 10-2 win over Virginia Tech in the Sportco Kick Off Classic softball tournament Friday at Eller Media Stadium.
Sharmayne Finley scored a game-high 26 points and had six rebounds, seven assists and five steals Friday to help Agassi Prep’s girls basketball team clinch its first league title in school history with a 69-61 home win over Lincoln County.
Friends, strangers gathered Friday for a memorial service for 60-year-old David Dunn, a homeless man who was bludgeoned to death Feb. 3 near downtown Las Vegas. Another homeless man was killed in similar fashion on Jan. 4.
Ryan Kiley had 20 points Friday as Bishop Gorman’s boys basketball team earned a 93-61 road win over Durango to secure the Southwest League’s top playoff berth.
UNLV is a 4-point favorite over San Jose State on Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Rebels might not be favored again this season.
The Las Vegas Valley saw its warmest day of 2017 and broke a record for the date with a high of 76 degrees on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Saturday’s high will drop to 64 degrees.
A man on Nevada’s sex offender registry was sentenced Friday in New Mexico to 30 years in prison for assaulting a 6-year-old girl.
Kaitlyn Anderson scored 14 points as Moapa Valley’s girls basketball team to a 53-32 road win over Boulder City on Friday.
The conversation surrounding philanthropy is taking on a new tone in Nevada.
The Valley boys basketball team beat Eldorado 71-62 Monday, winning the Northeast League play-in game at Desert Pines and making the postseason.
Billionaire businessman Mike Ilitch, who founded the Little Caesars pizza empire before buying the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers, and won praise for keeping the professional sports teams in the city as others relocated to new suburban stadiums, has died. He was 87.
Can you hear me now? Clark County is exploring how to improve cellphone reception on the Strip.
After splitting the first two games of the series, Boulder City outscored Tech by 40 pins to clinch the Class 3A state title.
Let’s be fair: HOA’s do not want to be in the collections and foreclosure business.
Why isn’t it good enough that we are the most unique and dynamic metropolitan area in the country?
Who is going to protect the BLM employee when the individual he has approached, for whatever reason, pulls a gun?
As in so many other areas, let’s dial back the stifling regulations, encourage competition among e-cigarette entrepreneurs and halt protectionism of the tobacco industry — all while lowering costs for businesses and consumers.
The schedule and results (when available) for the boys and girls bowling tournaments are here.
Tech led by 94 pins after the first two games, and held off Chaparral for a 7-2 victory to claim the Class 3A state championship.
The man is suspected of robbing three women in the wee hours of Jan. 11 at a Roberto’s Taco Shop located at 3399 S. Durango Drive, police said.
The shooting occurred after an argument involving two drivers whose vehicles earlier had been in a rear-end collision at Jones Boulevard and Robindale Road.
A former Las Vegas hotel security guard took advantage of two intoxicated women and raped them in their rooms, prosecutors said Friday.
A group of male UNLV students provides competition at practice for the women’s basketball team. Michael Larson and Kai Campbell have become an integral part of the team.
If your valentine deserves more than a typical greeting card, why not go with the high-tech alternative? Adomni, a Las Vegas technology start-up is offering 10 minutes of free ad space on three digital billboards to help locals share their love this Valentine’s Day.
The boy crashed a scooter into a wall Friday near North Grand Canyon Drive and Havasu Canyon Avenue. He was taken to University Medical Center in critical condition but was stable as of 7 p.m., police said.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson on Friday gave several hours of testimony, sometimes tearfully, expressing her remorse and regret in signing an order to help an attorney she knew with a Canadian divorce case.
A Clark County woman was tested Dec. 28, and results released Wednesday confirm that she tested positive for Zika virus disease. The health district’s website indicates the virus was transmitted to the woman through sexual contact.
Emergency crews rescue three people from flood waters near the Truckee River in Reno as a winter storm continues to dump rain and snow along the Sierra’s eastern front.
