Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation is chipping in to support a new national monument in southern Utah that’s been a flashpoint in the debate over public land use in the West, officials said Friday.
Las Vegas police responding to calls of reported gunshots in the 4800 block of Sacks Drive found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. The man was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where he later died.
A vehicle struck, then dragged an officer Saturday night after a physical altercation during a traffic stop in the central valley, Metro police said. The suspect fled the scene.
A thick glaze of ice covered roads from Oklahoma to southern Illinois on Friday amid a winter storm that caused numerous wrecks, forced school cancellations, grounded flights and prompted dire warnings for people to stay home.
The New England Patriots are headed back to a familiar spot: the AFC championship game.
Trump’s need to dominate every news cycle feeds an almost compulsive tweet habit. It has placed him just about continuously at the center of the national conversation and not always to his benefit.
Taxpayer dollars are better spent securing safe and viable alternatives for the long-term storage of nuclear waste in areas that are willing to house it. The incoming administration and congressional Yucca Mountain advocates should focus their efforts on that worthwhile initiative.
If the law is repealed and Congress does not act to restore the cuts, many facilities — especially the community hospitals and clinics that more often cater to the needs of low-income and elderly patients — will be forced to shut their doors or stop providing certain specialty care such as behavioral health or neonatal intensive care
The Nevada Supreme Court has already struck down Nevada’s failed voucher plan, and we applaud Democratic leaders who have said they won’t spend precious time in the 2017 Legislature trying to find a fix for a bad idea.
Nevada’s next election is a long way off on the calendar, but nearing quickly for politicians planning to run for governor.
We can spend several years moving all the statues out of the Capitol. And we might have to tear down a few memorials while we are at it.
We citizens of Nevada need to do what the property owners in Californian did and vote for a Proposition 13 which, by law, caps property tax increases.
There is an old and true statement, something like, “If you keep doing the same thing, you will continue to get the same results.” In my 17 years in Las Vegas, I have concluded that the saying applies to the Clark County education system.
The president must establish a culture of transparency and openness that permeates down to recalcitrant bureaucrats who too often prefer to stonewall rather than to cooperate.
For the first 11 months of 2016, taxi trips in Southern Nevada fell by more than 16 percent from the same time in 2015, according to authority figures.
We’re in the midst of a massive reallocation of economic resources — workers, firms and capital investment — that initially weakened productivity growth. That’s my theory at least.
No one is deported except felons. Those who remain can’t get welfare or vote. The border is secured, so this never happens again. And middle-class Americans have their jobs and wages protected. Everyone wins.
Maybe it is the herd mentality. Maybe it is public virtue signaling, a kind of showing off. Maybe it’s a way to express anxiety or frustration. It’s easier to stop shopping at L.L. Bean than to persuade a Trump voter to choose the Democrat the next time.
COMMENTARY: Searching for evidence of remorse, humanity in South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof
With Roof, there’s plainly no sense of sorrow now — or to come. In the end, evidence of sincere remorse, which is to say, humanity, can be the difference between life and death.
This mess reveals deep dysfunction in our criminal justice system, making plain how much work there remains to eradicate the class- and race-based inequities plaguing it
D.J. Harvey had 28 points as DeMatha Catholic (Maryland) defeated Bishop Gorman 73-66 in the Hoophall Classic in Springfield, Massachussets on Saturday.
After 146 years, the curtain is coming down on “The Greatest Show on Earth.” The owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus told The Associated Press that the show will close forever in May.
Samantha Thomas hit a 3-pointer with eight seconds to play Saturday to give Centennial’s girls basketball team a 68-65 win over St. Mary’s (California) in Stockton, California.
Las Vegas police need the public’s help finding a suspect in a Monday night armed robbery of a southeast valley business.
Two men suspected in the armed robbery of a south central valley bank Tuesday remain at large, Las Vegas police said.
Nearly 300 volunteers spent Saturday morning helping clean up the Clark County Wetlands Park’s Sunrise Trailhead in the east Las Vegas Valley.
If you thought having CES in town earlier this month was a big deal, wait until you see what conventions are coming in this week.
As you enter The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas lobby, you turn yourself over to the hotel’s newest “employee” Rose to guide you through its halls and amenities.
A team of heavy-machine operators drew a crowd of camera-toting spectators as they plucked downed trees and other dangerous debris from raging floodwaters in Nevada.
Matt Ryan looked very much like an MVP, and the Atlanta Falcons are headed to the NFC championship game.