Authorities have recaptured a physically fit felon who scaled a basketball hoop to escape from an Arizona detention center and was on the run for more than two months, a top law enforcement official said on Tuesday.
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Jonathan Koppenhaver, the former Bellator MMA and Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter known as War Machine, was back in a Las Vegas courtroom Tuesday.
A new program is offering free legal services to the victims of recent flooding in the Moapa Valley.
A Henderson man was sentenced to two years in federal prison Tuesday for pointing a powerful laser at Las Vegas police helicopters earlier this year.
A driver was killed Sunday in a crash near the finish line of an unusual race that shuts down a rural Nevada highway twice a year to let car enthusiasts drive as fast as they can.
The days of “no pain, no gain” are over. According to James Wong, co-owner of The Fit Labs, a fit life can be achieved through the principles of the exercise system Z-Health, which uses the brain’s cues to turn one’s body into a metabolically efficient machine.
The man who died after being run over by a semitrailer near downtown Sunday morning was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday identified the teenager who was killed in a drive-by shooting near Sahara Avenue and Decatur Boulevard Sunday evening.
Classes are now being offered to parents of Clark County School District students, teaching them how to help their children with math homework.
The killing of Michael Brown happened hundreds of miles from the Las Vegas Valley, but the outcome of another dead young black man in the hands of police echoes the concerns of many residents in North Las Vegas and the surrounding area.
Monday’s Nevada Sesquicentennial All-Star Concert at The Smith Center included both a Mark Twain and Elvis Presley impersonator. The real Wayne Newton and those Cirque du Soleil courtesans in the red frocks and powder wigs who are as synonymous with the new Las Vegas as Newton was to the ’70s.
Supreme court justices continued their campaign asking the public to vote yes on the initiative to establish a Nevada Court of Appeals during a panel discussion at Boyd Law School on Monday.
A federal law enforcement agent who oversaw the aborted roundup of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy’s rogue cattle in April is drawing complaints from sheriffs and the lieutenant governor in Utah over his management style.
Las Vegas police are looking for a getaway car connected to a robbery at the Palace Station. A man who robbed an employee inside of the casino’s sportsbook fled the scene in a newer model black Dodge Avenger.
A 21-year-old man faces an attempted murder charge after hitting three people with his car, Las Vegas police said.
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The announcement of a bell schedule comes after a district-wide survey netted over 48,000 responses showing broad support for having classes start later in the day.
A plethora of festive spectators dotted Fourth Street as more than 200 groups marched, danced or rolled through downtown Las Vegas.
Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop project has seen multiple instances where the project has received fines, reprimands and scrutiny from various state and local agencies and the media.
After about two decades of talk about a high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Southern California with no action, Brightline West’s executive director said the time is now.
