As Nevada prepares to begin holding back students who aren’t proficient in reading at the end of third grade under a new law, a state board on Thursday approved an “alternative” test students can take to prove their skills.
Jackson Justice was 2-1 in singles to help the Shadow Ridge boys tennis team to a 10-9 road victory over Legacy on Thursday.
Backstage Bar Billiards, 601 Fremont St., will host an after-party Friday night to celebrate the grand opening of Palace Station’s bBd’s Beers Burgers Desserts.
Former Las Vegas physician Julian Lopez was the first recipient of the Roland Hemond Award for humanitarianism after donating a kidney to former White Sox minority owner Eddie Einhorn, who became ill at Cashman Field.
The wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit when she rear-ended another man’s car, killing them both, according to a state police report.
Las Vegas police have a suspect in an 84-year-old woman’s 2005 killing, but her son said even an arrest won’t fill the hole in his life.
A man in his 20s was shot at about 5:10 p.m. in a parking lot on the east side of Craig Ranch Regional Park, 628 W. Craig Road, according to North Las Vegas police.
Clark County will increase the speed limit from 45 mph to 65 mph on the beltway between Craig Road and Hualapai Way starting Friday afternoon.
Microsoft will begin requiring its contractors to offer their U.S. employees paid leave to care for a new child.
McKenzi Hall shot a 3-over-par 75 at Highland Falls on Thursday and led three Centennial golfers among the top four finishers as the Bulldogs won a Northwest League match.
A Los Angeles man upset about The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday on charges he threatened to kill the newspaper’s journalists, who he called an “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said.
Texas football coach Tom Herman said Thursday he’s willing to talk to the NCAA about a 2014 visit to a Florida strip club with Zach Smith when both were Ohio State assistants.
The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority and its employees’ union have agreed upon the terms of a three-year contract after more than a half-year of bargaining.
Several Las Vegas oddsmakers and handicappers are high on Michigan, which will take on Notre Dame on Saturday night in South Bend, Indiana, in a classic Week 1 matchup.
A new set of education regulations approved Thursday has Republicans worried that it could mean things like the Pledge of Allegiance might not be taught to K-12 students in Nevada.
A warehouse developer has bought a spread of land in North Las Vegas from a wireless-communications giant whose planned project there fizzled.
The Gold Sheet editor Bruce Marshall provides tech notes and trends for the Review-Journal.
After 15 years, this is the last Labor Day weekend for the original pool party. Entering the home stretch of its final season, Rehab is partying nonstop until Monday.
Best bets from Bernie Fratto, Mitch Moss, Kelly Stewart and Todd Dewey.
No members of the Golden Knights were included in the list of the top 50 player ratings released by EA Sports this week.
A Canadian woman and her 10-year-old daughter who vanished on their way to a Northern California camping trip were found Thursday and they were indeed camping, authorities said.
Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots has all the incentives to become the NFL’s highest paid tight end.
From his recurring role on “General Hospital” to his doomed stint as an Oscars co-host, James Franco has made enough curious career decisions that attempts to explain them all could fill a college course.
An Ohio State University trustee who thought football coach Urban Meyer deserved more than a three-game suspension and resigned from the board over it said Thursday that he was alone in advocating a stiffer penalty when trustees discussed the matter.
State guidelines on policies for transgender students at Nevada’s public schools were stalled once more on Thursday, after the Legislative Commission pulled the matter from consideration amid a continuing outcry from parents.
A blown tire on a semi-truck may be to blame for a deadly head-on crash with a commercial passenger bus along Interstate 40 in New Mexico near the Arizona border, according to authorities.