A small group is having a shell of a time trying to find homes for Nevada’s state reptile, the desert tortoise.
A Chinese businesswoman was convicted Wednesday of trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in March and lying to Secret Service agents.
T. Boone Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday. He was 91.
The girlfriend of Browns defensive end Chris Smith has been killed in an accident.
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-election vow to annex parts of the West Bank as a “very dangerous escalation.”
Patriots receiver Antonio Brown practiced with the team for the first time on Wednesday, a day after his former trainer filed a civil lawsuit in Florida accusing him of sexually assaulting her on three occasions.
Marilyn Spiegel, who returned to Wynn Las Vegas as president in January, was recommended for licensing by Nevada gaming regulators.
The California Assembly has approved a bill that would provide new wage and benefit protections to workers at so-called gig economy companies such as Uber and Lyft. If signed, as expected, it could have national implications.
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Fifty-three players received an invitation to camp, which begins Thursday with off-ice testing at City National Arena. The season opener is Oct. 2 against San Jose.
While the Raiders have significantly upgraded their talent and hope to take a big step forward in their final season in Oakland, there may not be much room for upward mobility.
The Southern Nevada Health District is reporting Clark County’s first confirmed case of severe respiratory illness linked to e-cigarette products.
The Bahamas government says there are 2,500 people on its list of those missing after Hurricane Dorian. But the names have yet to be cross-checked against the lists of people evacuated.
From Europe to Japan, President Trump has stirred up under-the-radar trade disputes that potentially could erupt within weeks or months with damaging consequences.
Authorities in Florida’s capital city say five people were taken to a hospital for treatment following stabbings at a building supply business in an industrial park.
French police are appealing for victims and witnesses to come forward to aid their probe into Jeffrey Epstein and anyone else involved in the disgraced financier’s alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls, and say they have already interviewed three people who identified themselves as victims.
As Jerry Seinfeld said, “You know that I can be anywhere else in the world tonight! But I’m here, because I had nothing better to do!”
This account of how their relationship unraveled is based on interviews with current and former administration officials and Republicans close to the White House. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
Conservative Republican Dan Bishop won a special election for an open House seat in North Carolina, averting a demoralizing Democratic capture of a district the GOP has held for nearly six decades.
President Donald Trump participated in somber memorial services on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with first lady Melania Trump at his side.
The U.S. has been ousted from medal contention by France at the World Cup, failing to capture gold at a major international tournament for the first time since the 2006 world championships.
“Our only hope was peace,” Hayat Khan, the Afghanistan family’s 54-year-old patriarch, said Tuesday, “and that doesn’t happen now.”
Americans are commemorating 9/11 with mournful ceremonies, volunteering, appeals to “never forget” and rising attention to the terror attacks’ extended toll on responders.
Iran’s president urged the U.S. on Wednesday to “put warmongers aside” as tensions roil the Persian Gulf amid an escalating crisis between Washington and Tehran in the wake of the collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.
Las Vegas firefighters, police and members of the community gathered outside Fire Station 5 early Tuesday to honor 9/11 victims in a tradition known as tolling the bells.
Temperatures will be a few degrees below normal Wednesday across the Las Vegas Valley, and winds will be much calmer.
The two were part of the first group of U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers sent to Afghanistan less than a month after 9/11, where they secretly entered the country on horseback.
New Italian restaurants are popping up in the valley, and so far, the outlook is promising.
Summer will soon be but a memory, but it’s possible to prolong that sense of freedom just a little longer by quaffing a tiki drink.
Las Vegas took a robbery suspect into custody after a barricade situation in the central valley Sunday night.