Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says the city’s earthquake early warning app will now alert users of weaker shaking.
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Officials from the Las Vegas Valley traveled to El Paso, Texas, to help with the city’s Family Assistance Center in the aftermath of the weekend’s mass shooting, the county said Tuesday.
Neil Armstrong’s astronaut training in Nevada went much more smoothly than his disastrous stops here in 1962, which ended with a stuck fighter jet and a hard landing.
In February 1965, Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo 11 crew members spent three days exploring at what was then known as the Nevada Test Site.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says an indictment unsealed Thursday charges Dennis Blieden with wire fraud and identity theft.
Count the Hoover Dam among the many Southern Nevada structures that were inspected and determined to be free of damage after the recent earthquakes in Southern California, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.
In 1982, there were only 22 living California condors on Earth. Today there are more than 500, spread across Arizona, Utah, California, and Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.
Reigning champion Miki Sudo of Las Vegas captured the women’s division of the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest on New York City’s Coney Island boardwalk.
The Nevada Army National Guard has identified a Las Vegas soldier killed in a tank rollover accident during a training exercise in California.
The body of Dr. Thomas Burchard, 71, a longtime psychiatrist in Salinas, California, was discovered by officers on March 7 in a desert area near the entrance to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The coroner ruled his death a homicide.
An Amber Alert is still in effect for a missing 2-year-old girl after her father was arrested in the killing of her mother, a 24-year-old Las Vegas woman, who was gunned down Monday in Milwaukee, officials said.
The U.S. Justice Department is giving $8.3 million to California to help victims of the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip where a gunman opened fire on a country music festival.
John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, estimates there is a 70 percent chance that legislators to the south will approve the plan by a Jan. 31 deadline set by federal officials.
A plane that had departed Las Vegas Saturday night slid off of a runway Sunday morning in snowy Cincinnati, the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport tweeted early Sunday.
Enough visitors are expected to pour into Las Vegas for New Year’s celebrations to temporarily move the city and surrounding communities up five spots on U.S. metropolitan population rankings.