A Bureau of Land Management ranger, a California Highway Patrol officer and a suspect were injured Saturday in a shootout near a Northern California campground, authorities said.
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The U.S. demographic of children who are born in other countries or who are being raised by an immigrant parent is growing. In 2012, there were 57,000 such children living in the city of Las Vegas, according to the latest numbers available from the Kids Count data center, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation based in Baltimore. That represented 40 percent of the 142,000 Las Vegas children under the age of 18.
NASA hopes to try again to launch a “flying saucer” into Earth’s atmosphere to test Mars mission technology after losing the chance because of bad weather, project managers said Thursday. The space agency is working toward a late June test.
Don’t be surprised to hear Divya Ramakrishnan unconsciously pepper her conversation with terms such as “cum grano salis” (with a grain of salt) and “suum cuique” (to each his own). The 18-year-old has perhaps earned the right to dispense such phrases so easily as the first student in Nevada history to earn five gold medals on the National Latin Exam.
A suspect in the deaths of two people near Reno died after exchanging gunfire with law officers following a high-speed chase Friday night, authorities said.
U.S. Senate Democrats failed to muster enough support last week to advance legislation to allow borrower to refinance student loans.
Slain Metro officer Alyn Beck was remembered at his memorial service Saturday as a loyal husband and dedicated father to three children, a mentor for fellow officers, and a kind-hearted jokester.
Allegiant Air said a flight from Las Vegas to Missoula, Mont., was diverted after a light warned of a problem with the plane’s hydraulic system.
Authorities say a man from Germany is dead after his kayak flipped over and he was unable to right himself at Grand Canyon National Park.
Two outpost offices of the National Weather Service in Alaska are finally ending what has been a bygone practice for most of the nation for almost two decades — using real human voices in radio forecast broadcasts.
Nevada hikers and bikers seek a little federal help for the American Discovery Trail, a coast-to-coast trail stretches 496 miles through Nevada from Baker to Incline Village, goes over 10,000- and 12,000-foot mountain summits, through thick stands of aspen, crosses paths of elk herds and mountain lions and along the shore of Lake Tahoe.
Atlanta police say a resident of a home on the city’s southwest side stabbed and killed a suspected intruder. Officers responded to the home invasion call on Saville Street around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
Las Vegas police have arrested Marvin Moran, 36, in connection with Friday’s homicide near South Durango Drive and Sahara Avenue, a killing detectives say was domestic related.
Henry Eric Williams, 45, was a Henderson resident who died of multiple blunt force injuries after being trapped inside of a minivan during a three-vehicle collision on the northbound U.S. Highway 95 off-ramp at Auto Show Drive.
Priceline is buying online restaurant reservation company OpenTable for $2.6 billion. The deal should help Priceline, the online travel company, branch out into a new business segment.
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Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. On the inside, you get The Strip (and now, the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
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Early voting begins Saturday for the June 11 primary. Here’s what you need to know.
Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
Experts said there are significant safety hazards that in-flight turbulence poses to airline passengers and crews. Injuries have piled up over the years.
