The entire public education system is so embroiled in politics that it cannot effectively serve its customers, the children.
Numerous area football players have received early scholarship offers during the NCAA evaluation period that runs through May 31.
The Senate intelligence committee says it will subpoena two of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s businesses.
Robert Sharpe III, an inmate at High Desert State Prison, died Thursday, according to the Nevada Corrections Department.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway learned Tuesday that its long-awaited second Cup Series race will be the first stop of the 2018 NASCAR playoffs.
After years of limiting how players could celebrate following touchdowns, the league decided to loosen up its rules, allowing players to again use the football as a prop, celebrate as a group and roll around again if they choose.
Gasoline prices and airfares are going up, but so are the number of visitors traveling to Las Vegas during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Taxpayers already have spent over $1 million to provide legal representation for the 19 men accused of participating in the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville.
The Nevada Senate, after emotional floor debate, approved a bill Tuesday allowing terminally ill patients to request life-ending medication from their physicians.
A money committee heard conflicting, unpredictable projections Tuesday over how much revenue Nevada could lose if it imposes a ban on hydraulic fracking.
A man died Friday at the scene of a single-vehicle rollover crash in Jean.
Flooding may be the big concern in much of Nevada now, but the thoughts of state and federal officials on Tuesday were on fire. Specifically wildland fires and what 2017 will bring to the Silver State.
The NFL had pushed the Stadium Authority Board to complete the lease before the owners met for their annual spring meetings in Chicago on Tuesday.
Theater veteran Frank Mack officially joins festival management Sept. 1, but he plans to be in Cedar City in early July when the festival launches its 56th season, which runs from June 29 to Oct. 21.
One person is dead after an officer involved shooting early Tuesday morning in Pahrump.
Assembly Bill 29 would reduce the late fee for registration from $25 to $10. The bill is meant to encourage registration, Jim Lawrence, deputy director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, told the Nevada Senate Transportation Committee on Tuesday.
Faraday Future’s outlook in North Las Vegas may have just gotten a boost.
Joni’s Agenda frontwoman Joni Mackin passed away in January, but bandmate Joe Mascolino has ensured her presence is still felt.
The outdoor area now boasts a tour on the self-balancing electric skateboard when its summer season starts Friday at the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
Approaching its 10th anniversary, Vegas’ go-to country nightspot has developed into a national brand.
The handheld toys, which spin like a windmill and emit a faint humming noise, are considered too distracting by some elementary and middle-school administrators.
Seton Hall guard LaTecia Smith has transferred and will join the team, UNLV coach Kathy Olivier announced Tuesday. Smith is the second Division I transfer to come to the Lady Rebels this spring, joining Bailey Thomas from West Virginia.
The first, most logical reaction to Nathan Myhrvold’s photography is: How?
A neighborhood post alerted me to Brothers Italian Bistro on West Craig Road, a family-owned and -operated place that has been there nearly three years in an Albertson’s-anchored center. That’s a track record for that spot, so I decided to check it out.
Dina Merrill, the rebellious heiress who defied her super-rich parents to become a movie star, often portraying stylish wives or “the other woman,” has died at age 93.
One cannot see, smell or taste it, but radon may still be present in one’s home. Radon is naturally occurring, comes from the ground and can accumulate in one’s house over time.
Atlantic City’s top-performing casino will switch to its new owner’s player rewards program next month.
Senate’s No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, says the Trump plan joins a tradition of White House budgets that are “basically dead on arrival.”
A botulism outbreak linked to contaminated nacho-cheese dip sold at a Northern California gas station has killed one man and left at least nine other people hospitalized, health officials said.
A bill that would create an independent counsel for the Gaming Control Board and Gaming Commission would reduce the attorney general’s budget by nearly $1 million over the next two years, financial projections show.