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.
Last season, the GMS race team founded by Las Vegan Maury Gallagher dipped a toe in exploratory Cup Series waters. The goal remains to take a deeper plunge.
Kyle Larson led a race-high 142 laps at the 22nd annual Boyd Gaming 300 on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He now has nine victories in the Xfinity Series.
Visitors put on their thinking caps during the First Friday festival in downtown Las Vegas on Friday night.
The NHL’s first outdoor game at a U.S. service academy probably won’t be its last.
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.
Two off-duty Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were hailed as heroes Saturday after they helped people escape from a fire at the Cornerstone Crossing Apartments at 6666 W. Washington Ave.
Incoming NFL rookie Kahlil McKenzie is no stranger to the league. He grew up around it.
Nearly 30 Nevadans gathered Saturday at the Asian Community Development Council offices to get their campaigning questions answered from industry veterans.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authorities said a man shot himself to death outside the White House on Saturday.
The last drive-thru wedding chapel in Reno has heard its final vows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The situation surrounding 809 Palmhurst Drive in the western Las Vegas Valley shows that anyone can file papers with Clark County to take ownership of a house, and the havoc this can cause.
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.
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.
The Clark County coroner has named the man in a wheelchair who died after he was hit by a car Thursday morning in the southeast valley.
A bomb threat Saturday morning at a northeastern valley Walmart triggered an hourslong investigation, police said.
The man who was killed Tuesday night when a car he was working on fell on top of him has been identified.