Workers set up carnival rides Tuesday at the site of the Las Vegas Helldorado Days, which opens Wednesday.
The Clark County School District talks tough when it comes to bullying but, in at least two cases, did little to nothing to back up that bluster.
What’s important enough to bring Democratic Sen. Harry Reid and Republican Sen. Dean Heller together? Interstate 11.
The country’s high schools are in an achievement holding pattern. The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, an achievement test administered to high school seniors every four years by the federal government, contained no good news for American students and taxpayers.
UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers was nowhere in sight, and for most of Tuesday night, neither was any semblance of an offense. Which really isn’t news because the Rebels’ hitters are mired in a funk that threatens to derail a promising season.
One can’t overstate the importance of winning the opener in a double-elimination baseball tournament.
Shadow Ridge’s baseball team scored on an error in the bottom of the 10th inning on Tuesday to earn a 4-3 home win over Cimarron-Memorial in the opening round of the Division I Sunset Region tournament.
The Mets called up right-hander Jacob deGrom from the 51s on Tuesday, making him the first of several talented young arms expected to help solidify New York’s pitching staff this season.
An explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey killed over 200 people Tuesday and trapped many more underground, Turkish officials said. A rescue operation is under way.
It was far from conventional wisdom.
When you wish upon a star. Makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you. However, when you wish someone gets hit by a car, it apparently helps if you’re Tommy Lasorda.
Liberty coach Jim Portese did not envision running away with a win at Silverado in the opening round of the Sunrise Region softball tournament on Tuesday.
Carlos Rivera’s RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning gave Pahrump Valley’s baseball team a 5-4 home victory over Tech in the Division I-A Southern Region tournament on Monday.
Winning pitcher Becca Bramlage hit an inside-the-park grand slam in the fifth inning Tuesday to help Virgin Valley’s softball team edge host Cheyenne, 8-7 in the opening round of the Division I-A Southern Region softball tournament.
Valley’s boys volleyball team turned to its heavy hitter for a spark after dropping the first set of the Sunrise Region tournament, 25-20, on Tuesday.
A thunderous standing ovation congratulated Norm Lewis as he became the first black actor to take on the title role in Broadway’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Commissioner Adam Silver barely waited until Anderson Cooper had signed off when he issued an apology for the owner his predecessor should have run out of the NBA years ago.
The longtime TV journalist Barbara Walters, 84, will be bidding adieu to ABC’s talk show program “The View” Friday, a show she created 17 years ago and entering a “new chapter” in her life and career.
One can’t overstate the importance of winning the opener in a double-elimination baseball tournament.
Nevada boxers Lorenzo Caldera, Quontez McRath and Elvis Garcia scored victories Tuesday night during the second day of the Golden Gloves National Tournament of Champions at the LVH.
During the regular season, Shadow Ridge’s boys volleyball team was swept by its closest Northwest Division rivals — Palo Verde and Arbor View. But it was a season-ending loss to first-place Palo Verde that instilled belief into the Mustangs, just in time for the postseason.
During the regular season, Shadow Ridge’s boys volleyball team was swept by its closest Northwest Division rivals, Palo Verde and Arbor View. But it was a season-ending loss to first-place Palo Verde that instilled belief into the Mustangs, just in time for the postseason.
Shadow Ridge boys golfer Ben Davis thought he had no chance to win after a double bogey on the 11th hole at Wildhorse Golf Club.
A shooting in southeast Las Vegas sent one person to the hospital in critical condition, police say.
NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson says Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has badly outdated views about minorities and is shockingly ignorant about HIV and AIDS for such a prominent public figure.
The wildfire that roared through Southern California forcing the evacuation of more than 20,000 homes is under control as the San Diego Fire Department works to tame the blaze and some residents in San Diego have started returning home.
When we moved the Taste of the Town column inside the section, one thing we added was that I’d respond to recipe searches. I’ve found a few, but lately haven’t gotten any requests from readers.
