A Las Vegas FBI special agent was arrested at gunpoint in Michigan after shooting at a police sergeant, Grand Rapids police told a Michigan news website.
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A former Las Vegas company mounted a novel defense in dispute over $1.1 million contract with NHL’s Minnesota Wild.
Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said they can’t go anywhere on the 1.6 million acre Desert National Wildlife Refuge without finding at least one Mylar balloon blown in from nearby Las Vegas.
Researchers have found and rescued members of a Pennsylvania family stranded in two separate locations in a northern Arizona forest after their vehicle got stuck on a snowy road while trying to reach the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, which is closed for winter.
An FBI agent has admitted to divulging confidential information to reporters covering the insider-trading probe of renowned Las Vegas gambler Bill Walters, federal prosecutors said Friday.
A multi-state agreement aimed at slowing the decline of Lake Mead can’t be finished until California finds a way to solve two major, long-simmering environmental fights, top water managers said Thursday.
The Grand Canyon has broken the 6 million mark in annual visitation for the first time, and it was a family from Las Vegas that put the national park over the top.
Hundreds of flights into and out of Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports were canceled Sunday as a winter storm system dumped moderate to heavy snow on the Upper Midwest and Lower Great Lakes regions.
Former schoolkids recall the day in 1977 when Hollywood came calling with a trunkload of Jawa costumes and an elephant for a silly sounding space opera.
Divers deposit urns containing ashes of two of the last survivors inside the sunken warship, where they will forever rest alongside the remains of hundreds of their former shipmates.
A historic park in North Las Vegas will double in size and the Hoover Dam Visitor Center will get new exhibits as part of the latest round of projects funded by federal land auctions in the Las Vegas Valley.
With thoughts still smoldering of the Japanese air raid that killed 1,177 of their shipmates on the USS Arizona 75 years ago Wednesday, four of the last remaining survivors of that Pearl Harbor battleship said it will be tough to bury two more.
“If it was right after the attack on Pearl Harbor, I’d want to kick him in the ass. … (But now) I have no hate for the Japanese,” says one 93-year-old former USS Nevada sailor.
Allegiant Air Flight 434 from Las Vegas to Knoxville, Tennessee, turned around Monday morning and landed safely in Las Vegas after an in-flight equipment failure.
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy is opposing a proposal from federal prosecutors to split the 17 remaining defendants charged in the Bunkerville standoff case into three separate trials.
