Gov. Brian Sandoval and Charles Sehe, who served on the USS Nevada from before Pearl Harbor through World War II, celebrated the centennial of the commissioning of the famed battleship at a ceremony Friday.
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Less than a year after breaking ground for a $6 million Fisher House where families of wounded warriors can stay while their loved ones recover, officials for the foundation and the nonprofit Nevada Military Support Alliance opened the 2-story building at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center campus on Thursday.
The crowd cheered Wednesday as a pair of ladder trucks raised a U.S. garrison flag high into a cloudless sky over Carson Avenue where it crosses Fourth Street.
Americo Benetti never thought he’d live to see another Veterans Day, or Armistice Day as it was called when he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Las Vegas Army Staff Sgt. Joe Gutierrez was welcomed home Saturday by Building Homes for Heroes, an organization that awards mortgage-free homes to veterans.
Ten Las Vegas area residents were recognized Saturday by Walker Furniture’s Help for Heroes program, which provides wounded U.S. military personnel and veterans with furniture and specialized items.
A plan by the Department of Veterans Affairs to redirect $35 million from a Filipino veterans fund to help bail out a troubled hospital project outside Denver was rejected by Congress on Thursday.
Men and women on active duty in the U.S. military who are stationed in Nevada will no longer have to pay extra fees to attend the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Although the drawndown of troops in Afghanistan is bringing most American military personnel home with the expected end to U.S.-led combat operations in December, more citizen-soldiers from Nevada are being tasked with overseas deployments.
Southern Nevada residents can expect to hear the thunder of military fighter jets and bombers as about 100 aircraft head north from Nellis Air Force Base to the skies over the Nevada Test and Training Range to participate in Red Flag training exercises beginning Monday.
After years of planning and financial uncertainty, the Las Vegas Veterans Memorial is starting to take shape, one brick at a time.
A band of lawmakers announced Thursday they will organize in support of the A-10 Thunderbolt, a close-air support fighter the Pentagon wants to retire over the next five years.
About 400 airmen from Nellis and Creech Air Force bases have signed up for voluntary separations to help meet the Pentagon’s downsizing goals for a leaner and more efficient military as U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan end this year, the Nellis base commander said Tuesday.
As the American Legion Post 8 battleship float rolled down Fourth Street Monday near the front of the annual Las Vegas Veterans Day parade, the two words spoken most often from tens of thousands of flag-waving spectators were “thank you.”
Sixty years later after the truce in Korea, Army veteran William “Bill” Miller recalls the “war” that cost the lives of friends around Pork Chop Hill.
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“It’s just heartbreaking,” said Judy Roman, whose houseboat was totaled and whose security camera recorded the fire.
Members of the Henderson Fire Department demonstrated how they respond to a 911 call about a child trapped in a hot car.
A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
