The Westgate sports book posted their NBA 2017-18 season win totals and the Boston Celtics opened with the second-highest total (56.5) behind the defending champion Golden State Warriors (67.5).
Fire officials said Monday they had effectively stopped the uncontrolled spread of the largest wildfire in Los Angeles history, with a little help from cooler weather, but were still working to contain it.
New North Las Vegas Fire Chief Joseph Calhoun has been intrigued by the fire-emergency field since visiting a fire station as a child just outside Gary, Indiana.
A 106-year-old Afghan woman who made a perilous journey to Europe, carried by her son and grandson through mountains, deserts and forests, is facing deportation from Sweden after her asylum application was rejected.
Xiaoli Huang and her husband of 45 years, Zheng Fan, of North Las Vegas, spent their early lives researching cures to HIV and other diseases.
North Korea’s leader is “begging for war,” the U.S. ambassador said Monday at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, as members called for punishing the country with even stronger sanctions for its powerful nuclear test.
Hurricane Irma, barreling toward the Caribbean and the southern United States, was upgraded to a powerful Category 4 storm on Monday as islands in its path braced for a possible onslaught.
While the number of evacuees seeking refuge in Houston’s emergency shelters dwindled 10 days after Harvey struck, many people who had left by Monday still faced dire housing needs.
Five burning questions as the UNLV football team prepares for its game at Idaho at 4 p.m. Saturday.
A Georgia school district has apologized after one of its teachers asked two high school students wearing “Make America Great Again” T-shirts to leave her classroom.
Bishop Gorman slipped to No. 7 in the USA Today Super 25 poll released Monday. Following the 2013 season, Bishop Gorman was unranked and was the No. 1 team after Week 1 in 2014, and has not been ranked lower than fourth since then.
Security guard Eric Leon watches the Knightscope K5 security robot as it glides through the mall, charming shoppers with its blinking blue and white lights.
Police are investigating after the body of a small child was discovered encased in concrete inside a rental home in Wichita, Kansas.
Dignity Health’s WomensCare Centers has a new initiative: addressing anxiety in new mothers, an ailment not often recognized as an offshoot of postpartum depression. It’s being implemented at places such as the Barbara Greenspun WomensCare Center of Excellence, 98 E. Lake Mead Parkway, Suite 301.
North Las Vegas police are investigating a Monday morning attack that left one man in critical condition.
Pulte Homes, a 65-year-old nationwide homebuilding company that is one of the country’s largest, has a long and impressive track record of building more than 30 neighborhoods in the master-planned community of Summerlin. To date, Pulte has built thousands of homes in Summerlin throughout the master plan and currently offers new homes from one end of the community to the other.
Pardee Homes will celebrate the grand opening of Cobalt at Skye Canyon Sept. 2 with the debut of four new model homes, complimentary refreshments and family-friendly activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Every day local children face their battle with cancer with fearlessness and a brave front for their families. To recognize these kids, the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Nevada names special ambassadors each year for its annual Superhero 5K with Chet Buchanan race and festivities. This year’s event will be held Sept. 9 at Mountain’s Edge, a master-planned community in the southwest valley.
Perhaps the confusion comes because we all talk about “getting a mortgage” to buy property. What we really need is money. What we get is a loan. We don’t get a mortgage at all. On the contrary, we sign a mortgage (in some states, a trust deed) that gives the bank a claim against the property, along with a bond or note, which is a personal promise to repay. We hand the bank the mortgage and the note; it takes it and in return gives us a check.
I thoroughly understand the costs of the continual opening and closing of the gates but the association needs to weigh that cost against a possible personal injury lawsuit. I know that some associations set a time frame to open and close the vehicular gates to correspond with morning and evening traffic but leaving the pedestrian gates opened all of the time is a new one to me.
George and Mimi Murdock knew they had come to the right place when house hunting in 2010 they found a gated compound with their initial stamped on the gates.
For a variety of reasons, one section of southeast Las Vegas is gaining the attention of residential and commercial developers but the main one may be that old real estate axiom, location, location, location.
A man was hospitalized Sunday night after he was stabbed during an argument on The Strip.
Las Vegas police had to stop a train Monday morning after a car stalled on the tracks in the central valley.
Harvey’s filthy floodwaters pose significant dangers to human safety and the environment even after water levels drop far enough that Southeast Texas residents no longer fear for their lives, according to experts.
An open letter to college juniors and seniors (and the parents of):
No one was injured when a fire broke out Monday at a vacant house in the northwest valley.
Some who have come to the priest in the days since Hurricane Harvey hit ask what kind of god would allow such suffering. It’s a question for which he has no answer.
Kensington Palace said Monday that Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child.