Sooner or later, kids will encounter a firearm. Wouldn’t it be smart for them to know they shouldn’t touch it, but instead to get away from it and tell a responsible adult where it is?
LaTesha Watson never planned to be a police officer. In fact, she had dreams of either becoming an attorney or a fashion designer.
It’s the biggest television event since the Super Bowl.
As part of the national Stepping Up Initiative, Metropolitan Police Department officials are exploring new approaches to get low-level offenders into treatment instead of keeping them locked up.
Graduations began on Wednesday and run through June 1. See the complete schedule here.
It has been a quarter-century since a Canadian-based franchise has hoisted the Stanley Cup, which has become something of an issue north of the border.
The Golden Knights will play at T-Mobile Arena for the first Knights home game of the Western Conference Final.
As daytime temperatures near 100 degrees, early morning and evening hours are becoming the most productive for anglers at Lake Mead.
French cosmetics supplier Sephora is poised to build a 714,000-square-foot regional distribution center in North Las Vegas, pending the approval of $3.12 million in state tax incentives.
Wildlife officials say a bear killed by officers is the one that attacked a 5-year-old girl outside her home in western Colorado.
Majestic Repertory Theater’s production of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” opens with an 8 p.m. show Thursday at 1217 S. Main St. The show runs Thursdays through Sundays through June 3. Tickets are $25, or $15 for students. majesticrepertory.com
You don’t have robot legs or the ability to get a blood transfusion with Red Bull, but here’s the next best thing.
There probably will be a lot of movement between major league teams and Triple-A affiliates, and with the 51s moving into a new ballpark next season, they won’t be everybody’s last choice.
The chairwoman of a Wynn Resorts Ltd. committee investigating allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Steve Wynn said more than 100 people have been interviewed so far.
Police say a 25-year-old man duped two Dallas high schools for nine months by posing as a 17-year-old student and Hurricane Harvey evacuee in order to play basketball.
Developers who want to build on former golf courses and other open spaces in the city of Las Vegas — which have provoked disputes valleywide — now must first hold a community meeting with stakeholders.
The 20th-ranked Rebels shot a three-round team total of 15-over 867 and finished third. The top five teams advanced to the finals.
A Bonanza High School teacher was arrested Wednesday for allegedly making “terroristic threats,” according to Las Vegas police.
The Raiders partnered with the ECO City Gallery at DISCOVERY Children’s Museum to unveil a Kids Construction Zone exhibit.
The three leading Republican candidates for Congressional District 3 detailed policy positions and traded barbs during a Tuesday debate on Nevada Politics Today.
The Knights and Jets split the first two games in Winnipeg.
The Knights are minus 130 favorites over the Jets in Game 3 at the Westgate, Boyd Gaming, CG Technology and Stratosphere sports books and they’re as high as plus 230 on the puck line.
The initiative that would ban sanctuary cities laws in Nevada still can make it onto the November ballot after the state Supreme Court partially overturned a lower court ruling Wednesday.
UNLV’s women’s golf and volleyball programs were recognized by the NCAA on Wednesday for finishing in the top 10 of their sports for their Academic Progress Rate scores. Both sports had perfect multiyear scores of 1,000.
A special prosecutor will handle the DUI case of a Las Vegas attorney who commonly defends drunken driving suspects.
In loopy yet neat handwriting, the woman wrote detail after detail about what she saw the final night of the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Forward David Perron was not in the Golden Knights’ lineup for Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals Wednesday as he was still suffering from an undisclosed illness.
NEW YORK — It’s Prime time at Whole Foods: Amazon said it will give its Prime members extra discounts at the grocery chain.
An explosion that rocked a Southern California medical building, killing the owner of a day spa and seriously injuring two patrons, is being investigated as a crime.