BEIJING -- A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said. The Xinhua News Agency said it was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. Other types of trains in other countries have traveled faster. A Japanese magnetically levitated train sped to 361 mph in 2003.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a court order blocking the Trump administration from imposing unlawful conditions on two federal emergency grants.
Nevada is among a group that will receive a nearly $150 million settlement with German automotive manufacturers accused of skirting emission regulations in vehicles
City of Las Vegas Communications Director David Riggleman’s final day is Feb. 2. He took his post on Oct. 4, 1999, in Oscar Goodman’s first term.
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Donald Trump championed has mostly held, but progress has slowed recently.
CCSD’s Central Kitchen is the school district’s hub for producing and distributing meals that fed students an average of 238,000 meals per day last year.
When the crowd of over 340,000 revelers ring in the new year this week on the Strip, many roads in and around the resort corridor will be shut to traffic.
Ashlee Buzzard, the California mother accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee Buzzard, pleaded not guilty Friday morning during a brief but emotional arraignment in Santa Barbara County Superior Court.
A tornado did, in fact, spin through Los Angeles on Christmas, the National Weather Service confirmed, damaging a home and a commercial strip mall.
A failed studio tax break push, party politics and budget challenges led Nevada political stories this year.
Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91.
