Nevada officials dispute the findings of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff’s latest impact report for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
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Nevada Highway Patrol officers will be out and about “during high times of traffic” starting Monday, and any drivers they pull over who are not wearing their seatbelts will be ticketed — “no warning,” said Loy Hixson, spokesman for highway patrol’s southern Nevada command.
The valley is cooling down just in time for Thanksgiving Day celebrations, travel and holiday shopping. Valley residents should expect a “big change” midweek, National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Outler said Sunday.
A gunfight between two groups erupted on Sunday in a New Orleans park where hundreds of people were gathered for a block party and the filming of a music video, leaving 16 people wounded, police said.
One person was wounded in a shooting on Paradise Road near the Harmon Avenue intersection, Las Vegas police said.
Homicide detectives are investigating the “suspicious death” of a woman found in a pool of blood at a northwest valley apartment complex Sunday, Las Vegas police said.
Classes and activities at Mojave High School will go on as normal Monday after a fatal shooting during an after-school brawl next to the campus Friday, the school principal said.
Henderson police have arrested a man and a woman suspected in a robbery and shooting in the victim’s Henderson apartment days later.
One of the Las Vegas Valley’s oldest, most storied golf courses could soon change hands. Las Vegas Country Club members confirmed Wednesday their 18-hole, member-owned course had been listed with a commercial real estate brokerage firm and would be offered up for sale sometime in the next month.
An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to prison for spying, the semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported Sunday.
A man was found shot dead in a vacant house Saturday near the intersection of Flamingo Road and Arville Street, Las Vegas police said.
The battle over maintaining life support for a 20-year-old Las Vegas woman continues this week in Reno. It focuses on the question of when is a person considered dead.
Paris and Brussels continued to defend against the threat of terrorist attacks Sunday, with the Belgian capital keeping service suspended on all of its subway and underground tram lines, while France’s education ministry implemented strict security protocols for its schools.
A Turkish Airlines flight bound for Istanbul from New York was diverted to Canada because of a bomb threat, authorities said.
One of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is take the keys away from the family patriarch. When it’s time for that to happen, it’s bound to provoke arguments, heartaches and headaches for all parties involved. But it’s also a necessary step in the life cycle.
Intense heat grips southern Nevada every summer. However, in recent years, the topic of worksite heat stress safety has become a focus. In 2022, Federal OSHA introduced its national emphasis program on heat stress safety. The same year, Nevada OSHA also issued its state heat stress guidelines for businesses. As summer 2024 approaches, it’s time […]
A fire that has been burning through Red Rock Canyon has been fully contained, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
The student’s lawyers claim he was threatened, discriminated against at UNLV, amid taunts from pro-Palestinian protesters and inaction by the administration and Board of Regents.
The fire was first reported before noon on Memorial Day and is located near the Late Night trailhead along Route 160, west of Las Vegas.
Officials broke ground in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside for a College of Southern Nevada facility designed to help people get into high-demand industries.