The Walt Disney Co. has announced it will stop using single-use plastic straws and plastic stirrers at all of its locations.
Police say someone untied a yacht owned by the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in Ohio, causing the vessel to drift into a dock and incur up to $10,000 in damages.
Former President Donald Trump aide and “Apprentice” contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman has a memoir coming that her publisher calls “explosive” and “jaw-dropping.”
An excessive-heat warning issued this week has been extended through Saturday as temperatures remain dangerously high across the Las Vegas Valley.
Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in exchange for community service to resolve charges stemming from a backstage melee at a New York City arena.
Arizona officials say a state trooper was fatally shot and another was wounded in a fight with a suspect.
Dubai police say they’ve recovered a rare $20 million blue diamond that was stolen from a city company’s vault and smuggled to Sri Lanka inside a pair of sneakers in a shoebox.
Housekeepers at Miami Beach hotels will soon be armed with panic buttons to help combat sexual assault.
An amateur photographer’s patience paid off with a stunning photo of a female duck followed by dozens of ducklings on a northern Minnesota lake.
Two teenagers are in custody after they robbed a group of teens at gunpoint early Thursday morning in the east valley.
A northern Nevada tribal member who admitted assaulting a man with a broken glass lamp in Lovelock on New Year’s Day 2016 has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison.
The Trump administration sought to fend off accusations the president is too soft on Russia, putting off a proposed second summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and declaring the U.S. will never recognize Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
A fast-moving wildfire — believed to have been sparked by arson — tore through trees, burned five homes and forced evacuation orders for an entire forest town as California sweltered under a heat wave and battled ferocious fires at both ends of the state.
Two men were injured Wednesday night after separate-but related motorcycle crashes in the central valley.
No one was injured after an early Thursday morning fire at a west valley apartment complex.
The three-run blast in the 10th inning led the 51s to a 6-3 win over Nashville on Wednesday night at Cashman Field.
On Wednesday, University Medical Center teamed up with the Golden Knights to give pediatric patients a chance to sign a contract and be a player for the day with Golden Knights center Ryan Carpenter.
Dozens of children from Boys Girls Clubs in the Las Vegas Valley took part in the sixth annual Paper Plane Palooza, a paper airplane folding and flying competition, on Wednesday at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.