March Madness isn’t contained to your TV set. As it does every year in Las Vegas, the NCAA Tournament has taken over the town, with thousands of tourists flooding sports books and plopping down basketfuls of their hard-earned cash on their favorite teams.
For one thing, he listed the job on the front of a campaign mailer — an unwise move when trying to keep information secret.
Two of the neat things about arena-style football are that the ball looks like a giant walnut, and that it gives guys from small colleges a chance to continue chasing dreams.
UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers went to the mound in the sixth inning and summoned right-hander Zack Hartman, one of the team’s closers.
Drugs are not the best place to begin for people having problems sleeping, says Dr. Mitchell Forman, dean of Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine. Your approach to bedtime may be the problem.
Duke defeated Gonzaga 66-52 on Sunday to set up the NCAA Basketball Tournament’s Final Four.
What would you say if Elton John walked into your record store?
Clark County and the city of Las Vegas wage a quiet turf war against the backdrop of the Strip.
The quake was 25 miles deep, the USGS said. Its epicenter was 34 miles southeast of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.
Feeling adventurous? Well, these climbers are.
Fans of NASCAR, the Electric Daisy Carnival or the Burning Man countercultural event held every year in the Black Rock Desert in far Northern Nevada could soon have to pay a bit more to get their groove on.
Deputies responded to the National 9 Motel in Tonpah at approximately 10:25 p.m., where a woman was said to have been stabbed in the parking lot, police said.
Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams appeared onstage at the Stellar Gospel Music Awards in Las Vegas for a rendition of “Say Yes,” according to Billboard.
Nevada’s battle against the federal government’s still-smoldering plans to bury the nation’s highly radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain has finally come “down to the brass tacks” with the prospect for formal licensing hearings on the horizon and renewed debate on scientific issues, says Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency Director Robert Halstead.
Dozens of people celebrating opening day with a free roller coaster ride at New York’s Coney Island amusement park on Sunday were forced to walk down the steep ride when its cars got stuck near the summit, police said.
The health rankings released this week showing how Clark County compares with the rest of the state make up only a small part of the picture as public health officials gather data for the ongoing community health assessment.
The Nevada Senate’s new Republican majority is slipping Democratic ideas into GOP bills. The tactic forces Democrats into awkward choices, and it lets the GOP get its priorities through while also taking credit for popular Democratic proposals.
It’s fast, accurate and a bit gross. An “Earth Unplugged” video shows us what happens in the split second when a chameleon whips out its tongue onto unsuspecting prey.
The 6-foot-4, 335-pound player, who has a history of domestic violence issues, was arrested Saturday night and charged with third-degree assault and domestic violence third-degree criminal mischief, according to the Tuscaloosa Police Department.
Nevada and Arizona lawmakers laid more groundwork last week for a new highway to link their states to points north and south.
It will be a showdown between Uber enthusiasts and taxi drivers Monday in Carson City as a Senate committee considers a bill to allow the ride-sharing company to operate in Nevada.
The Outlaws, who kick off their inaugural season in the Arena Football League at 7:30 p.m. Monday today at the Thomas and Mack Center against the San Jose SaberCats, are owned by Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil.
Michigan State is going back to the Final Four. The Spartans beat Louisville 76-70 for a thrilling overtime victory in the East Region on Sunday.
Ankle bracelets and electronic monitoring will become more widely used in Clark County this year as officials look for ways to save money and decrease the soaring inmate population at the Clark County Detention Center.
Two bodies were found on Sunday at the site of a gas explosion that destroyed four New York City apartment buildings last week, injuring 22 people, and officials were working to determine if they were those of two men unaccounted for, police said.
New Orleans Saints cornerback Brian Dixon was arrested in Miami on Sunday morning for resisting an officer without violence.
A 4-year-old Pennsylvania girl surprised a driver and passengers when she boarded a public bus alone in the middle of the night on a quest for a sugary slushie, transportation officials said on Sunday.
A Pahrump deputy who works at a Nye County detention center was arrested after police said he pushed his wife and then pointed a gun at her Saturday during an argument.
The man killed in a motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon on Interstate 15 was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Sunday.