Faced with a staggering backlog of veterans’ disability claims in Nevada, the Department of Veterans Affairs will add 20 employees to process claims at the VA’s Las Vegas benefits office.
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A 21-year-old University of Alabama swimmer who died during a severe storm on Monday is being talked about across the nation as a “true hero.”
P2C Imaging and Second Chance Customs are looking for volunteers to help with what they hope will become an annual spring cleaning at Nellis Dunes on Saturday.
North Las Vegas residents can keep up with reported crimes by signing up for a new alert service from police. The North Las Vegas Police Department on Wednesday invited residents to sign up for AlertID, a communication platform that connects citizens and federal, state and local authorities to provide information that can help protect families and communities.
A mother in Washington is one of a handful upset that their child was told to pick cotton as a class activity. Redmond Middle School students were handed cotton plants last Friday and told to pick it “to see what it was like to be a slave.”
The 60-ton carcass of a blue whale is rotting on the shore on Canada’s east coast, stinking up a town and triggering fears that it could burst.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife is recommending hunters statewide be allowed to take more elk and fewer mule deer this year due in part to persistent drought that will make it difficult to support typical deer herd sizes.
Nevada’s U.S. senators split Wednesday on raising the minimum wage to an hourly $10.10.
Oklahoma officials were conducting an autopsy Wednesday on an inmate who writhed, clenched his teeth and appeared to struggle before prison officials halted an execution in which the state was using a new drug combination for the first time. The man later died of an apparent heart attack.
The 132-foot, 1.2 million-pound locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive made a whistle stop in Las Vegas Tuesday night. It’s on display until 4 p.m. Wednesday before it resumes its journey at 7 a.m. Thursday to a restoration yard in Cheyenne, Wyo.