As Congress continues to focus its spotlight on health care delays and questionable medical practices at Veterans Affairs facilities across the nation, the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas finds itself caught in a rising tide of veterans moving to the area coupled with a shortage of doctors to care for them.
Fighter jets and bombers filled the air with thunder from their powerful engines Wednesday at the north end of the Las Vegas Valley as Red Flag training exercises took to the skies. Red Flag ends July 25.
An old wool cap and military uniforms on display in Las Vegas tell stories about men who fought in America’s wars, including soldier-sailor brothers and a soldier who was a member of the first American Legion post establshed in Paris.
Career Navy veteran Ron Deanne of Henderson will do what Army Pvt. Ed Jennings couldn’t do in 1984 and pay his respects to those who participated in the Normandy invasion 70 years ago.
Seventy years after the D-Day invasion of Normandy to liberate France from the grip of Germany’s Nazi regime, Las Vegas barber Gaetano “Guy” R. Benza, part of the Allied Expeditionary Force, returned there today to reflect on his life-changing experience.
On the second day of landings at Normandy, Army Pfc. Benjamin Goo remembers the bullets flying and the sight of soldiers’ bodies as his unit penetrated the shoreline on Omaha Beach to join the invasion of Nazi-occupied France.
Two men were jailed Thursday in the home invasion robbery of a 100-year-old Carson City veteran and his caretaker over Memorial Day weekend.
Today, as veterans and families across the nation pause for Memorial Day, Gene Ramos of Las Vegas will be thinking about the comrades he lost in the Korean war and another friend who endured POW hardships with him.
The North Las Vegas VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas is one of the few places in the Department of Veterans Affairs where feet, ankles, legs, hands, wrists and arms are made from scratch and fitted to perfection.
It was the sight of his Marine uniform jacket that he hadn’t seen in 54 years that rolled back the clock in Hal Loew’s mind.
Mixed-martial artist Shane Kruchten was down on the mat in Las Vegas on Saturday night but not out of his fight for life — and his fallen Marine comrades were there with him, their names tattooed on his back.
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.
After a rip-roaring Red Flag air combat exercise at Nellis Air Force Base last week, big, black, bat-shaped B-2 Spirit jets returned to Missouri, taking with them the lessons learned from flying mock war sorties with a mix of 100 U.S. and foreign warplanes.
Army veteran John Masson swung onto his new bike from his wheelchair, and a support team began checking tires, tightening screws and adjusting the pedal bar.
The Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team is back in action after a short season, practicing for a year full of shows in Las Vegas and around the nation.
