Gun violence costs Nevada taxpayers millions of dollars every year, according to the national gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
In its first three attempts at winning the Tarkanian Classic title, Bishop Gorman’s boys basketball team was turned away by some of the nation’s top players.
It was Overland (Colo.) senior De’Ron Davis’ turn to deny the Gaels on Saturday.
Goodbye, fall. Hello, winter. Winter will begin at 8:48 p.m. Monday with the shortest daylight hours of the year.
Destiny Gonzalez poured in 26 points Saturday to help Western’s girls basketball team advance to the semifinals of the Vegas Invitational with a 48-43 win over Clark at Mountain View.
Raychel Stanley had 20 points and nine rebounds Saturday as Bishop Gorman’s girls basketball team beat Silverado 78-45 in the semifinals of the Tarkanian Classic at Desert Oasis.
Thursday’s National Eggnog Day, so it’s time to drink (or eat) a few.
An inmate died Saturday morning at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City, the state’s department of corrections announced.
Samantha Thomas’ stick-back basket with nine seconds to play allowed Centennial’s girls basketball team to pull out a 66-64 win over Chaminade (Calif.) in a battle of nationally-ranked teams Saturday in the Nike Tournament of Champions in Gilbert, Ariz.
North Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal crash that killed one person at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard South and Civic Center Drive, the department said.
A small airplane flying from near Bakersfield, Calif., to Henderson’s airport disappeared Saturday afternoon, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.
Oh, that Nevada Legislature. They are a slippery bunch. Moments after finishing up a special session to approve tax breaks for an electric car company, state Senate Republicans slipped a surprise concurrent resolution onto the agenda before adjourning.
Tournament Most Valuable Player Chesney Campbell scored 17 points Saturday to help the Panguitch (Utah) girls basketball team to a 56-21 win over host Virgin Valley in the championship game of the Lady Bulldog Invitational in Mesquite.
Assemblyman Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, found himself in a unique quandary, and was searching for a way to get out.
Nevada lawmakers passed a surprise resolution Saturday expressing its intent to exempt military families and children under 7 from the 100-day rule to receive state support to attend private schools.
A serious case could have been made for a punter winning the Las Vegas Bowl’s Most Valuable Player award on Saturday. The honor, instead, went to Utah defensive back Tevin Carter, whose two early interceptions set up the 20th-ranked Utes’ 35-28 victory over Brigham Young at Sam Boyd Stadium.
A stout and rotund man who said his name was Mark was wearing a Super Bowl lanyard around his neck with a placard that said he needed tickets to the sold-out Las Vegas Bowl. On back of the placard was a Sam Boyd Stadium seating chart.
The Clark County School District, with the support of its teachers union, soon may overhaul its salary schedule to recruit new educators to Las Vegas while encouraging more teachers to work in at-risk schools.
Four foals pranced around pens in the middle of the Bureau of Land Management’s parking lot off Torrey Pines Drive on Saturday morning.
A thigh injury forced 7-foot freshman Stephen Zimmerman Jr. to limp off the floor early in the game, and by all appearances it was going to be a long night for UNLV.
With smoke, mirrors and a Hail Mary from Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers seem to have turned their season back in the right direction.
For Marc Ratner and Jerry Izenberg, earning membership in a Hall of Fame is nothing new.
Wyoming not only lost its superstar in swingman Larry Nance Jr., it lost five seniors from a team that went to the top of the Mountain West, winning the conference tournament, earning the school’s first NCAA Tounament bid since 2002 and going 25-10.
The most anticipated game in the 24-year history of the Las Vegas Bowl ended just about as soon as it began. Or so it appeared.
The recent congressional hearing into legislation that would ban online gaming couldn’t have gone worse for backers of the bill even if they attempted to sabotage the three-hour meeting themselves.
It’s easy to see how Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority President and CEO Rossi Ralenkotter identifies with retired baseball star Pete Rose.
U.S. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and rival Bernie Sanders square off in a potentially combative debate on Saturday, one day after their presidential campaigns erupted in a bitter feud over a breach of Clinton voter files by a Sanders staffer.
The Rebels are 11-point underdogs when they face No. 12 Arizona tonight at the McKale Center.
The Las Vegas police officer shot and injured at Emerald Suites on Las Vegas Boulevard Thursday, has been identified by Metro.