Peggy Kearns, director of the Veteran Affairs Southern Nevada Healthcare System, says her staff is cutting appointment wait times despite a fast-growing caseload.
Military
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency says it already has conducted tests of a “directed-energy airborne laser” fired from a military drone that would be capable of zapping rockets almost as soon as they are launched.
On Sunday morning, after nine months of deployment in Kuwait, roughly 80 soldiers from the Nevada Army Guard’s Bravo Company, 422nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion, reunited with friends and family at the Las Vegas Readiness Center.
Norm Johnson was facing a stint in a juvenile detention center when offered the option of joining the Air Force. He enlisted and served in the Korean War.
Air Force’s daring exhibition team opens new wing detailing its 74-year history in its hangar at Nellis Air Force Base.
Physician, first nonveteran to head government’s second-largest agency, is holdover from Obama administration.
The Pentagon is launching efforts to solve a baffling World War II mystery: whether dozens of U.S. sailors listed as missing from a ship disaster were actually recovered and buried all along as unknowns in a New York cemetery.
The Service Training Education and Preparation for Veterans Act would align Labor Department grants for community colleges with local veteran labor markets.
Democratic lawmakers, including Rep. Titus of Nevada, express concerns that President Trump could provoke unpredictable Kim Jong-un.
Seventeen authors will be on hand to sign their works on Sunday at the Leatherneck Club in Las Vegas.
A bill that would allow 18- to 20-year-olds with military backgrounds or affiliations to carry concealed weapons was introduced Thursday in the state Assembly.
Bills passed Wednesday by a Senate committee expand membership of the Nevada Veterans Service Commission and set procedures for disposing of memorabilia left at state veteran memorials.
Lockheed Martin has reached agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense for the next 90 F-35 fighter jets in a move that the defense contractor says lowers the price for the jet, which is in use at Nellis Air Force Base.
The Air Force version of the $100 million joint strike fighter participates for the first time in the air combat drill at the Nevada Test and Training Range.
Nearly 200 biker club members gathered Tuesday to honor late World War II-era Navy veteran Irene Miller at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.