University of Nevada, Las Vegas students Thursday climbed to No. 2 out of 19 teams in the Solar Decathlon, a Department of Energy-sponsored competition that challenges students to create energy-efficient homes.
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Las Vegas High’s Tristan Gordon knows exactly what kind of football game he expects to see on Friday at Green Valley.
Cory Fisher made a 32-yard field goal with 57 seconds remaining in regulation, and Foothill held on for a 30-27 victory over host Basic on Thursday.
Bus drivers are in such short supply for the Clark County School District that the School Board declared a “critical labor shortage” on Thursday.
Not even a quarter of Kelly Elementary School’s fifth-graders read at grade level in the 2010-11 school year. A year later, that more than tripled to 77 percent, according to state test results that spurred more questions than congratulations for the Clark County School District campus.
Here’s your DJ/club forecast for the coming week. It’s a promising week for high-quality performers.
Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said Thursday that he suspects Sheriff Doug Gillespie colluded with an arbitrator and the police union to broker a contract agreement with raises before the arbitration hearings even took place.
Officials in the recession-racked city of North Las Vegas hope a preliminary shared services agreement announced with the city of Las Vegas Thursday will lead to permanently shared services at a dozen municipal agencies, a move that could save the city millions of dollars in annual staff and administrative costs.
Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts has died at 88.
Nearly two weeks later, some bikers are suggesting SUV driver Alexian Lien, knowingly or not, instigated the confrontation off-camera earlier by clipping one of the bikes in a rally on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan.
Faced with the likely shutdown of critical food stamp and child nutrition programs if the partial federal government shutdown continues, Nevada cannot afford to pay to reopen federal parks, the Sandoval administration said Thursday.
A federal magistrate has denied a request for a second publicly funded defense lawyer for Leon Benzer, the accused mastermind of the scheme to take over Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
A prosecutor says a former police officer waved people out of harm’s way before peppering a federal courthouse in West Virginia with gunfire.
Two orthodox rabbis and eight other men were arrested in an FBI sting in New Jersey and New York on charges they plotted to kidnap and torture a man to force him to grant a religious divorce.
Salvaging roadkill for the dinner table is not only legal starting this month in Montana, but state officials plan to let drivers who accidentally kill big game to simply print out permits at home that allow them to harvest the meat. Later on, there will be an app for that.
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Dennis and Ashley Prince had a young baby together before they were killed in early April, and the child is now the center of another guardianship dispute.
Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson face murder and child abuse charges. They were arrested after their son’s body was found in a dumpster near downtown Las Vegas.
A rodeo bull hopped a fence surrounding an Oregon arena and ran through a concession area into a parking lot, officials said.
Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson are being held in custody without bail in connection with the death of a 2-year-old whose body was found in a dumpster last week.
