The 51s have averaged 5,096 fans per game as of Sunday, up from 4,882 last year. For the first time since 2008, more than 350,000 fans have showed up at Cashman Field this season.
Sunday was supposed to be the big day. Or at least it seemed. Aside from the April draft period, the Raiders hadn’t acquired a defensive player this offseason who will be on their Week 1 roster.
Here is a look at some of this week’s top high school sports events.
Howard’s shocking 43-40 win over UNLV on Saturday night at Sam Boyd Stadium is believed to be the first upset ever by a team getting at least 40 points.
Before he left office in January, President Barack Obama offered his successor accolades and advice in a private letter that underscored some of his concerns as he passed the baton.
Airport and airline workers have attended classes over the past year to spot the signs of human trafficking as a way to prevent men, women and children from being shuffled out of Las Vegas against their will.
Hurricane Irma has regained Category 3 intensity, and additional strengthening is likely in the coming days as it tracks west across the Atlantic.
More than a thousand firefighters battling the largest wildfire in Los Angeles history contended with erratic winds on Sunday, but more moderate temperatures could help contain a blaze that has forced hundreds to evacuate their homes, officials said.
A number of health events will take place around the valley.
The person who drowned during a thunderstorm Saturday night at Lake Mohave has been identified as a California man.
Six years years ago, Ron Gross of Las Vegas, , then a 60-year-old computer instructor who also did security at the Rio, never dreamed he’d need a bone marrow stem cell transplant from a woman nearly 6,000 miles away to stay alive.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday estimated damage from Hurricane Harvey at $150 billion to $180 billion, calling it more costly than epic hurricanes Katrina or Sandy and fueling a debate over how to pay for the disaster.
President Donald Trump signaled Sunday that he was not ruling out a retaliatory strike against North Korea in response to the isolated country’s overnight nuclear test, which he called “very hostile and dangerous to the United States.”
A disastrous domestic summer box office is ending on a low note.
The parents of a man who died after leaping through the flames of the Burning Man festival’s trademark burning ceremony say they don’t know why their son did it.
Police booking logs have identified the mother arrested after leaving her baby alone in a car Saturday afternoon in a grocery store parking lot.
The possibility of showers in the Las Vegas Valley will bring cooler temperatures Labor Day weekend, the National Weather Service said.
Walter Becker, guitarist, bassist and co-writer for the sophisticated, dark-humored band Steely Dan, has died. He was 67.
The third-highest point in Nevada was named after the U.S. secretary of war before he became president of Confederacy, but that may not matter to those who have inquired about the peak since Charlottesville.
While controversy swirls around Civil War legacies and monuments in other states, Southern Nevada’s brief annexation by the South helped put the present “Battle-Born” state on the map.
Howard, which was a 45-point underdog, stunned UNLV 43-40 in the season opener Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Fans attended a memorial for the singer and songwriter Chester Bennington, former frontman of Linkin Park, at Saxe Theater in Planet Hollywood on Saturday in Las Vegas.
Jhoan Urena hit a walk-off home run in the ninth inning Saturday night as the 51s defeated the Tacoma Rainiers 7-6 at Cashman Field.
The coroner responded about 10 p.m. to an area near Cottonwood Cove Resort and Marina, east of Searchlight, for the person who drowned, Las Vegas police said.
UNLV entered Saturday’s season-opening 43-40 loss to Howard at Sam Boyd Stadium figuring to rely heavily on its running game as the Rebels break in a redshirt freshman quarterback. And that’s exactly what they did.
Kickoff for the Southern Highlands United youth soccer fall season isn’t until next Sunday, but coaches have spent two weeks competing — for space, not goals — in Inzalaco Park.
Less than 60 percent of applicants are admitted to magnet and career-tech schools, despite growth in number of available slots in recent years. The schools’ performance tells why they exert such a strong pull.
Three takeaways from the UNLV football team’s 43-40 loss to Howard on Saturday night at Sam Boyd Stadium:
In school district survey, school administrators say they would like control over more areas, everything from hours the custodians work to whether they use district tech support to fix computers.