Firefighters think careless smoking may have started the fire at 9321 Sienna Ridge Drive, near Fort Apache Road and Charleston Boulevard, that claimed the life of Noel Cohen, 51, on Wednesday afternoon.
Michelle Obama will visit 10 cities to promote her memoir “Becoming,” a tour featuring arenas and other performing centers to accommodate crowds far too big for any bookstore.
The Westin, 160 E. Flamingo Road, was purchased by hotel operator Highgate, according to property records, which indicate that investment firm Cerberus Capital Management also partnered on the deal.
Despite more marijuana licenses available from the state, parts of rural Nevada continue to shun the business.
Las Vegas police have blocked off the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue while they investigate a rollover crash involving a police vehicle.
The granddaughter of a Jewish art collector whose paintings were stolen by the Nazis had a family reunion with one of the works on Wednesday after almost eight decades, an impressionist piece by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Philippine officials have begun evacuating thousands of people in the path of the most powerful typhoon this year, closing schools and readying bulldozers for landslides.
One of David Hockney’s famous “pool paintings” is coming to auction and is expected to sell in the $80 million range, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction.
Reno police are looking for the burglars who stole a safe full of $800,000 worth of cash and jewelry from a home over the Labor Day weekend.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he would have shaken the hand of a school shooting victim’s father during a break in last week’s Senate hearing had he recognized him before being whisked away by security detail.
Two Las Vegas men were sentenced to a total of 18 years in prison Wednesday for their involvement in a $14 million telemarketing scheme that targeted small-business owners.