Cristian Garcia reached his current position through hard work and faith and defying odds, along the way stepping in to prevent a 19-year-old woman from a possible sexual assault.
The #MeToo movement is making its way to Burning Man.
Traffic has reopened on the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge and nearby highways after police activity, authorities said Saturday afternoon.
The Holzwarth Historic Site in the Kawuneeche Valley on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park is unusually quiet for a mid-August night.
Spanning three city blocks, San Francisco’s $2 billion transit terminal is open after nearly a decade under construction.
The Mormon church ramped up its opposition Thursday to a proposal that would allow medical marijuana in Utah, even as faith leaders insisted they support suffering patients using it under strict controls.
The National Park Service is planning to reopen sections of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park next month following the lull in activity from the Kilauea volcano.
The patriarch of the polygamous family from TV’s “Sister Wives” drove around his new hometown in northern Arizona, admiring the mountain views but still thinking about the heap of boxes that needed sorting at the homes he rented for his four wives and 18 children.
The Golden Knights are inching closer to the danger zone for a possible holdout by restricted free-agent defenseman Shea Theodore.
Bulgarian authorities say a tourist bus has flipped over on a highway near Sofia, the capital, killing at least 16 people and leaving 26 others injured.
For MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO Jim Murren, Friday was quite the New England homecoming.
It was just before the big NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2004, and the first driver introduced by Robin Leach was the veteran Morgan Shepherd, who lined up last on the 43-car starting grid.
Strong winds have died down but officials warned Saturday that torrential rains still remained a big threat to Hawaii after once-powerful Hurricane Lane was downgraded to a tropical storm.
Alexander Miller led the Centennial boys to victory in the season-opening Red Rock Running Company Invitational meet with a first-place finish in the newly reconfigured Mountain Region at Floyd Lamb Park on Saturday.
The family of an American scientist who died while rock climbing in New Zealand is urging other climbers to carefully consider their reliance on equipment that’s been left permanently attached to rock faces.
Federal land managers are beginning an emergency roundup of wild horses in an area of eastern Nevada because there’s not enough water and forage to support the animals.
This should be the week we get some answers to one of Southern Nevada’s biggest mysteries: Where will the thousands of people attending events at the new Las Vegas stadium park their cars?
Glenn Close didn’t have Plan B. Growing up in Connecticut, she turned an empty field into her stage. “I always loved pretending that I was other people.
Photographer Nathan Myhrvold captured the very essence of a glass of absinthe.
After draining much of his campaign war chest during a testy primary race, Democratic governor nominee Steve Sisolak appears ready to spend once again.
Prosecutors say charges have been dropped against a man accused of urinating on a 5-year-old black girl in western Michigan because children made up the story.
Fed up with dog poop being left around, board members at a Maryland condominium complex are now relying on DNA samples to police unscooped feces.
It was day two of his tenure as the College of Southern Nevada’s new president. He toured the Charleston campus to share details about his life, learn about his students and colleagues, become acquainted with the campus and set goals for the state’s largest community college.
Now she is staking a campaign that paints Heller as a “career politician” who can’t stand up to President Donald Trump. The focus has centered around his contradicting votes on repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Sheraton, Westin and other Starwood hotels are finding their religion.
Authorities say a 16-year-old boy was killed and an 18-year-old critically wounded when a gun battle broke out near a Northern California high school.
A drone assisted crews with a wildfire in the northwestern corner of Yellowstone National Park.
Officials in Yellowstone National Park say they don’t plan to capture or kill a bear that injured a 10-year-old boy from Washington state.
Lawmakers have sent Gov. Jerry Brown a measure that supporters say would make California the first state to bar full-service restaurants from giving out single-use plastic straws unless customers request them. It wouldn’t ban straws as some cities have in a bid to combat waste.