‘Real’ NASCAR Cup season finally begins in Las Vegas

The record book shows that what happens in Las Vegas also tends to happen in Homestead, Florida, where the NASCAR Cup championship is decided at season’s end.

Golden Knights look to end losing streak, get healthy

The Golden Knights have managed to avoid long losing streaks. But they are literally limping into a five-game trip that begins at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Prudential Center against the New Jersey Devils.

 
David Perron’s career season more meaningful with Knights

Left wing David Perron has tied his career best of 57 points with the first-place Golden Knights. He’ll get a chance to set a personal best Sunday when the Knights play at the New Jersey Devils.

Avalanche leaves 1 dead, others hurt in California storm

The avalanche that hit Friday at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort caught five people — one day after a snowboarder died there during a blizzard as a winter storm rolled through California.

Utah monument reviews fueled by access to resources, report says

Access to fossil fuels and other natural resources played an early role in a Trump administration review that resulted in size reductions at two Utah national monuments, according to internal documents released following a public records lawsuit.

Bubba Wallace is the newest face of a more diverse NASCAR

Bubba Wallace is just 24, but being the first full-time African-American driver in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup series since Wendell Scott in 1971 isn’t lost on him in terms of the message his rise imparts to so many.

More than 200 arrested in California immigration sweep

More than 200 people were arrested on immigration violations during a four-day operation in Northern California, but authorities said that hundreds eluded capture because of a warning from Oakland’s mayor.

California city bans single-use plastic straws, cutlery

Malibu has banned single-use plastic straws, stirrers and cutlery. The City Council has voted to approve an ordinance prohibiting the sale, distribution and use of the plastic items starting June 1.

Ticket drive for NHL team in Seattle jumps out to big start

The group looking to bring an expansion team to Seattle for the 2020 season said it surpassed 25,000 ticket commitments in two hours after kicking off its season-ticket drive Thursday.

 
Laxalt running for Sandoval’s third term

Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt may be a strong conservative, but he’s positioning himself as a defender of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s moderate policies.

 
Florida python eats deer that weights 4 pounds more than snake

Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they’d never seen before: an 11-foot-long python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself.

Agency says it’s spying on buses with Apple, Google workers

A transit agency in Silicon Valley set up six cameras to count how many buses carrying Apple and Google and other tech employees are using its roads after the companies refused to share that information.

 
CSN’s Henderson campus grows with new provost, buildings

The Henderson campus of the College of Southern Nevada recently welcomed a new vice president/provost. It’s the first visible step in the college’s transition to a multicampus district model.

California’s Joshua Tree park sees big surge in popularity

Joshua Tree National Park is seeing an explosion in popularity. The vast park where the Mojave and Colorado deserts meet in Southern California had more than 2.8 million visitors in 2017.

Snowpack drops sharply across West over 60-year period

Scientists have found dramatically declining snowpack across the American West over the past six decades that will likely cause water shortages in the region that cannot be managed by building new reservoirs, according to a study published Friday.

Central Michigan University shooting suspect used dad’s gun, police say

A 19-year-old student suspected of killing his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory had been acting so strangely the day before that campus police called his mother and then took him to a hospital for suspected drug abuse, authorities said Saturday.

FIFA approves video review ahead of World Cup

In one of the most fundamental changes ever to soccer’s 155-year-old rules, FIFA approved video review on Saturday and cleared the way to use it at the World Cup in June.