Overcrowding is a harsh reality across the Clark County School District, where a majority of schools are operating at over 100 percent of capacity, according to a district report released in October that covers 2016-17.
Just about anyone who’s driven through McCarran International Airport should be acquainted by now with the handy Cell Phone Lot. The Road Warrior highly recommends giving it a try, but beware a few rules.
The rich deserve an income tax cut more than you do. While that’s probably the least popular opinion in Nevada about the tax-reform outline President Donald Trump’s team released last week, the numbers show it’s true.
San Diego police said on Sunday they had shot and killed a man who had opened fire beside a pool at an apartment complex, while holding a beer in his other hand, wounding eight people.
“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” won the Daytime Emmy Award for best entertainment talk show Sunday, 20 years to the day that her character came out as gay on the sitcom “Ellen.”
Congressional Republicans and Democrats forged a hard-won agreement Sunday night on a huge $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund the day-to-day operations of virtually every federal agency through September, denying President Donald Trump funding for a border wall and rejecting his cuts to popular domestic programs.
The UNLV women’s and men’s tennis teams lost by 4-0 scores Sunday in the Mountain West championship finals.
Paul Rodriguez is teaming with Cheech Marin and his son, “P-Rod,” on an upcoming sitcom for NBC.
As of 2014 there has been more than 100 recorded nuclear waste accidents. Las Vegas and the rest of Nevada cannot afford to roll the dice with this issue.
National monuments not only protect and preserve the natural beauty, but they also protect sacred Native American sites and preserve this irreplaceable history.
Animal captivity by MGM including The Mirage is a shameful and cruel practice that is rapidly running out of steam in an age when people are waking up to the reality that animal captivity is not kind and it is not educational, it is animal cruelty.
Here is a look at some of the week’s top high school sports events.
Starter Tyler Pill threw seven scoreless innings as the 51s (12-12) dispatched Albuquerque 2-1 on Sunday at Cashman Field.
Kilts were donned and bagpipes were played over the weekend as people connected with their inner Celt during the Las Vegas Celtic Society’s 13th annual Celtic Gathering and Highland Games.
Two people were injured Sunday evening after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in the Hard Rock Hotel parking garage, Las Vegas police said.
The night rioters and looters sent pockets of the Historic Westside up in flames, a familiar voice guided the community through the chaos. It was Louis “L.C.” Conner Jr., broadcasting loud and clear from KCEP, “The People’s Station,” located in the heart of the Westside.
In 2015, raw sewage backed up into the dugout at Cashman Field. This time, it hit the team’s administrative offices and the convention center.
On Sunday, walkers strolled 2 miles down a path at Springs Preserve in the Walk Against Hate, a fundraiser held by the Anti-Defamation League.
Dr. Tim Tollestrup entered a little-known field of surgery for the challenge and chance to enhance peoples’ lives dramatically. He hasn’t been disappointed.
Eastbound Interstate 40 in Kingman, Arizona, near the Nevada border, has reopened after an injury crash on Sunday, the Arizona Department of Transportation said on Twitter.
A fire at a downtown Las Vegas motel caused no injuries Saturday night, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.
A shark attacked a woman wading in the ocean with friends, tearing away part of her upper thigh in the ocean off a popular Southern California beach, authorities and witnesses said Sunday.
A Saturday motorcycle fatality in Bullhead City, Arizona, is under investigation.
President Donald Trump said after North Korea’s latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong-Un will eventually develop better missiles, and “we can’t allow it to happen.”
Severe storms including tornadoes swept through several small towns in East Texas, killing at least four people and injuring dozens more, and leaving a trail of overturned vehicles, mangled trees and damaged homes, authorities said Sunday.
It has become a familiar story — “The Fate of the Furious” is, once again, the box office champ.
An early morning stabbing at a Las Vegas nightclub left three men injured with at least one in critical condition, police said.
The Las Vegas Valley can expect a quiet week and gradually rising temperatures, according to the National Weather Service.
Pardee Homes has begun sales for what it’s calling a “next-level-modern” community in Henderson. Axis is under construction on 35 acres at 2239 Sky Pointe Ridge Drive and will feature 74 homes with prices ranging from the $800,000s to more than $1 million.