The motorcyclist who died this week after a crash near Valley of Fire State Park was a 52-year-old assistant professor at the University of Wyoming.
Resident of area near Reno contracts mosquito-borne virus, though it’s unclear whether the exposure occurred locally or during recent travels.
After Arrogate’s stumble, 4-5 favorite can cement his status as a leader in the older horse division by taking down the $1.2 million race on Saturday at Saratoga. But it doesn’t look like a walkover.
No reason given for Bob Morgan’s resignation as head of one of the largest nonprofits in the region.
The Clark County coroner’s office has released the identity of a toddler who died after falling into a southeast valley swimming pool.
British actor Robert Hardy, known for his role in the “Harry Potter” movie franchise and as the star of the TV series “All Creatures Great and Small,” has died. He was 91.
A tiny building sporting a painting of a blonde, blue-tailed mermaid apparently drifted 200 miles from Florida to south of Louisiana.
LL Cool J will make history as the first rap musician to be saluted at the Kennedy Center Honors.
The husband of a Texas doctor said Thursday that she died at the bottom of the Grand Canyon after she ran out of water and grew dizzy from heat exhaustion on a hike with their daughter and a nephew.
The Las Vegas Valley could see more rain as the week draws to a close, according to the National Weather Service.
Telecommunications giant T-Mobile expects to finish a retail location inside Showcase Mall later this year.
Smart & Final will finish remodeling one of its Las Vegas Valley warehouse-style food stores into a larger format by fall.
Two days, $269 million. That’s how much was spent, in how many days, for four Las Vegas Valley apartment complexes last week – a burst of sales in a hot market that’s only getting more heated.
Hundreds of people packed a campus chapel to pray and comfort each other at the Minneapolis school where two people were killed and more than a-half dozen others were hurt in an explosion and partial building collapse.
A woman who encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to “get back in” a truck filled with toxic gas was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.
Former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko announced his immediate retirement from boxing on Thursday.
The heat wave that’s sending the mercury soaring past the century mark across much of the West has broken a 71-year-old record in Reno.
The president’s vacation could be driven, in part, by necessity. Everyone who works in the White House West Wing, including the Oval Office occupant himself, will be forced to clear out by week’s end so that the government can replace the balky, 27-year-old heating and cooling system.
Using peanut butter to escape from the Walker County Jail in Alabama isn’t as crazy as it sounds.
A jury in Dallas decided that accusations by newlyweds amounted to malicious defamation and that the photographer shoud be paid more than $1 million in damages.
Jesse Fontaboa and Jerry Smith combined for seven RBIs and the Southern Nevada Blue Sox sent 17 batters to the plate in a 12-hit, 14-run first inning to rout Grand Junction (Colorado) in Denver on Wednesday, 30-5.
The Golden Knights could make more history Thursday, but not necessarily the kind you want to make.
A pedestrian was hit and killed by a possible drunken driver Wednesday night in the central valley, Las Vegas police said.