It remains questionable whether electric cars will save the planet.
The 28 invitees to USA Basketball’s Las Vegas minicamp can rest easy, knowing nobody is going to be cut this week. But they also know the window to make a positive impression is small.
The city of Detroit sought bankruptcy protection last week, which was somewhat surprising. Hadn’t Detroit declared bankruptcy already?
The Suns’ summer roster is light on NBA experience, but Marcus Morris has two years in the league, and that makes him well-qualified to act as Phoenix’s floor leader.
ELKO — Firefighters are facing hot temperatures in their battle against an Elko County wildfire that has crept to within 100 yards of a subdivision.
RENO — Nearly two years after a gunbattle between motorcycle gangs turned a casino floor into a shooting gallery, two rival gang members go on trial on murder charges today in the death of a high-ranking Hells Angels officer from California.
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas has been selected to host the NAACP national convention in July 2014.
RENO — U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say they plan to remove only 1,300 wild horses and burros from the range across the West this summer because of budget constraints and overflowing holding pens.
The doctor enlisted to “help fix health care” in downtown Las Vegas has found a partner for the ambitious venture.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, D.J. Mitchell (5-4); Aces, Garrett Mock (7-5)
Wearing white T-shirts and light-colored jeans, they listened to a teacher on a recent afternoon.
Vehicles fueled by alternative means — like hybrid or electric sources — wouldn’t bear the brunt of Clark County’s proposed fuel tax increase.
One person is dead after an auto accident in Mountain Springs just east of Pahrump according to the Nevada Highway Patrol’s website.
A team of researchers has concluded that pockets of oil trapped in the wreckage of the sunken Deepwater Horizon are the likely source of oil sheens that have been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the deadly 2010 explosion on the BP-leased drilling rig.
Instead of another excruciating loss in a major championship, Phil Mickelson got a chance to celebrate early.
A brilliant closing round at challenging Muirfield made it possible.
Across the West, early miners digging for gold, silver and copper had no idea that one day something else very valuable would be buried in the piles of dirt and rocks they tossed aside.
The cape, the curl, the S on the chest. Superman is among comics’ most recognizable characters, and 75 years after Cleveland teenagers Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster’s Kryptonian made his debut in the pages of Action Comics No. 1, his popularity remains stratospheric.
Clarence Goodson and Joe Corona scored during an eight-minute span of the first half, and the United States cruised past El Salvador 5-1 Sunday to advance to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Some Vermont farmers want to plant hemp now that the state has a law setting up rules to grow the plant, a cousin of marijuana that’s more suitable for making sandals than getting high.
Moviegoers were ready for a fright this weekend, sending “The Conjuring” into first place at the box office.
Chris Froome won the 100th Tour de France on Sunday, having dominated rivals over three weeks on the road and adroitly dealt with doping suspicions off it.
Belgians shouted “Long live the king” Sunday to welcome their new monarch to the throne on a sunny national holiday. But several legislators from northern Flanders boycotted King Philippe I’s coronation, highlighting longstanding feuding between the nation’s Dutch-speaking Flemings and Francophones — the biggest challenge the new monarch will face.
The Phoenix Suns had two first-round picks in last month’s NBA Draft. One hasn’t set foot on the court, while the other has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the NBA Summer League.
Former Las Vegas showgirl Janice “Cinnamon” Steen Fahey, who perform alongside Bob Hope, Liza Minella and Sammy Davis Jr., has died at age 67.
Remember when sane people told Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi that the health care scheme called ObamaCare needed more thought, better vetting and bipartisan support?
I saw “Ka” again Tuesday under circumstances nobody wanted, but no tragedy could take away what I would describe as the limitless feeling it still inspires.
He was standing against the wall of the gymnasium at Doolittle Community Center on Friday morning, waiting to get on the court. It must have been a flashback of sorts for C.J. Watson, who first started doing that when he was in second grade.
