3-star California player commits to UNLV

Matthew Horne, listed by 247Sports as a three-star football player, tweeted Saturday he would play at UNLV. Horne reportedly also received scholarship offers from UNR and Fresno State.

Crews battling wildfires in California amid heat wave

Firefighters toiled in stifling heat Saturday on the lines of destructive wildfires across the U.S. West, making progress against some blazes while struggling to tame others that have forced evacuations of hundreds of homes.

Man, 58, dies in crash east of downtown Las Vegas

A 58-year-old Las Vegas man died after his car was struck by a sedan driven by a man suspected of DUI, police said. The crash happened on North Pecos Road north of East Sunrise Avenue.

 
5 years after Carpenter 1 fire, Mount Charleston begins to heal

Dead trees still mark the path of one of the largest wildfires to strike Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. But bushes and shrubs also are starting to color the almost 19,000 acres of federal land that remain closed to the public.

Anthony Bourdain leaves most of $1.2M estate to daughter

Globe-trotting chef, author and TV host Anthony Bourdain was worth $1.2 million when he died last month and left most of the estate to his 11-year-old daughter, according to court papers filed this week in New York.

Marta Meana begins leading UNLV as acting president

She began her role as acting president of the university on July 1 following the tumultuous departure of former President Len Jessup. Thom Reilly, chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, said it could take a year before a new president is in place.

Adam Duritz of Counting Crows readies for band’s 25th anniversary tour

He calls it The Rule. Adam Duritz has a personally crafted regulation pertaining to his time in Sin City. “I can never … I mean never ever, ever, ever go to Las Vegas except when gigging,” the popular frontman for the rock band Counting Crows says.

Report: Patients suffered at Washington psychiatric hospital

Behind tall brick walls and secure windows, hundreds of patients at Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital live in conditions that fail U.S. health and safety standards, while overworked nurses and psychiatrists say they are navigating a system that punishes employees who speak out despite critical staffing shortages.

Navajo community still wary after gang members arrested

Down the road from Hank Blair’s trading post in the tiny community of Lukachukai on the Navajo Nation, a sign occasionally would pop up in a corn field saying the crop was ready.

 
Northern Nevada monument pays tribute to Native American culture

“The Monument to the Native Peoples of the West” was created by Frank Van Zant, who underwent a spiritual epiphany when his pickup truck broke down near Imlay one May morning 50 years ago.