A social services office that aids the homeless will close July 15 despite Clark County commissioners expressing a desire earlier this week to save it. A rigid funding cap forbids additional local ta…

Dayne’s favorite pastime turned deadly June 28 when he drowned in the pool of their home at 6270 Newville Ave. Cerrillo and Patrick White stood beside that pool together this morning, a rare oc…

Clark County Schools Superintendent Walt Rulffes has offered to accept a 10 percent pay cut because of the ongoing budget crisis and its impact on the community. Rulffes, who is paid $307,000 a year,…

The Nevada Test Site says the last of 65 truckloads of repackaged radioactive waste has been shipped to Idaho, pending final disposal at the federal Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. Nat…

The U.S. attorney for Nevada says three men have pleaded guilty to holding seven undocumented immigrants against their will in a Las Vegas motel room for ransom. U.S. Attorney Greg Brower’s office…

Manny Ramirez hit a pair of RBI singles to key an early outburst against struggling starter Livan Hernandez, and Randy Wolf pitched the Los Angeles Dodgers past the New York Mets 11-2 on Thursday nigh…

Fewer meetings and poor attendance at two large conventions drove local visitor numbers down again in May. The number of visitors to the valley dropped 5.8 percent to nearly 3.2 million people, accord…

reporting The mounting troubles for Senator John Ensign have gone from personal to ethical to criminal. A political group out of Washington has filed a criminal complaint against Ensign after allegati…

A centuries-old medical concept may be one of the greatest medical discoveries you’ve never heard of - or at least not in the conventional sense. When some think of a “hyperbaric chamber,” they th…

He felt as though he was watching a show: This testimony came from a man who helped subdue a gunman inside the New York, New York Casino two years ago. Thursday, the trial for the accused shooter cont…