It’s the gesture that many Las Vegas visitors make when they first walk down Las Vegas Boulevard. It can accompany the first sighting of a famous building or precede the landing of a harnessed stranger leaping off an 1,150-foot-tall tower.
Santa Anita will continue racing through the end of the current meet on June 23, despite objections from animal rights activists who urged the California Horse Racing Board to shutter the historic track in the wake of 23 horse deaths.
The U.S. Energy Department is asking a federal judge in Reno to dismiss the state’s lawsuit challenging plutonium shipments to Nevada.
All three hosts of the Triple Crown were among several major tracks that agreed Thursday to phase out the use of a common anti-bleeding medication starting next year, sparked by the deaths of 23 horses in three months at Santa Anita.
Lynne Spears posted a photo on her personal Instagram account Tuesday of a woman kneeling, along with the text in the photo, “When God’s warriors go down on their knees, the battle is not over; it has just begun.”
The Raiders’ situation at tight end resembles where they stand at running back. Depth is not the issue.
The arena for Seattle’s new NHL franchise won’t be completed until late spring or summer of 2021 but thatshouldn’t have any impact on the expansion team’s first season.
A paddleboarder has been convicted of assault for hitting a surfer with his paddle during an argument over a wave off the Southern California coast.
Sacramento and St. Louis have been invited to submit formal bids for franchises as Major League Soccer’s Board of Governors formally unveiled plans Thursday to expand to 30 teams.
Officers in Phoenix on Wednesday arrested two men linked to the suspicious death of a Nevada man found dead last week in his Henderson home, Henderson police said Thursday.
Three renowned mountain climbers are presumed dead after an avalanche in Alberta’s Banff National Park, Canadian officials said Thursday.
A national advocacy organization is offering its own reward to help catch animal poisoners who use tainted meat to harm their victims.
A scheduled update of the funding related to the Las Vegas Monorail Co. was temporarily derailed this week.
Police said Thursday that they’ve broken up a band of scooter-riding robbers from the San Francisco Bay Area who busted into 40 cars over the weekend in Los Angeles.
A Pahrump man sued the Nye County Sheriff’s Office after a deputy responding to a home security alarm shot and killed his dog in 2017.
The former co-star of the Animal Planet reality television show “Tanked” has put his northwest Las Vegas Valley Tuscan-style villa on the market for $3.2 million.
A bill that would add asthma medication to Nevada’s prescription drug transparency law was approved by the state Senate Thursday.
A sculpture dedication ceremony at the complex, 7929 W. Mountains Edge Parkway, near Mountains Edge Regional Park, is set for 6:30 p.m. May 1.
A body found Thursday at Zion National Park has been identified as a 35-year-old Salt Lake City man, according to park officials.
CINCINNATI — A federal grand jury indictment that was filed Thursday accuses an Ohio man who claimed to be a missing child from Illinois of lying to federal agents and of identity theft.
The Las Vegas Stadium Community Benefits Plan Oversight Committee learned Thursday that for work through the end of February, 66 percent of the 1.3 million work hours performed on the project was completed by women and minorities.
More information is being released about music icon Bob Dylan’s project in downtown Nashville in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of his “Nashville Skyline” album.
The attorneys for the suspect in last year’s Florida high school massacre told a judge Thursday that if she doesn’t allow them to question his former mental health counselors without prosecutors’ knowledge and presence she risks causing a lengthy delay to his trial or a possible reversal on appeal if he is sentenced to death.
Attorney General William Barr’s release of a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report was met with criticism by Democrats who demanded the special counsel testify before Congress.
The National Enquirer is being sold to the former head of the airport newsstand company Hudson News.
A construction company donating time to build a house for the family of an Alaska police officer killed in the line of duty was targeted by thieves.
Liberty junior Julian Strawther, a consensus four-star forward ranked by ESPN as the No. 36 prospect in his class, announced his commitment to Gonzaga via Twitter on Thursday.
Clark starting point guard Frankie Collins will transfer to AZ Compass Prep (Arizona) for basketball next season.
The Golden Knights look to close out their Western Conference quarterfinal series Thursday when they meet the San Jose Sharks in Game 5 at SAP Center.
Clark starting point guard Frankie Collins will transfer to AZ Compass Prep (Arizona), he announced on Twitter. Collins averaged 10.5 points, 4.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds last season.