Looking for someone to thank for Nevada’s population mini-boom? Thank the baby boomers. Clark County’s over-65 crowd grew by nearly 6 percent in 2013, according to census figures released Thursday.
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Super Summer Theatre at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, has received the largest grant in its 39-year history: a $600,000 grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Thursday declined to second-guess officials at the UNLV Foundation who have agreed to pay $225,000 for Hillary Clinton to speak at a fundraiser this fall, a month after she is speaking for free at an energy conference Reid and the university are holding in Las Vegas.
A 65-year-old Arkansas man convicted of committing a murder 29 years ago in Clark County had his death sentence and conviction reversed by the Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday.
Saying they don’t have money or room to corral many more wild horses, federal land managers have sided with horse advocates in calling for the dismissal of a Nevada lawsuit demanding acceleration of roundups.
O.J. Simpson’s feuding former Las Vegas trial lawyers have settled a breach-of-contract lawsuit in Nevada federal court and a slander claim in Florida state court, leaving one dispute remaining between the imprisoned former football star’s ex-lawyer from Miami and one of his current attorneys in Nevada.
Given the romance that Americans have enjoyed with the Pony Express era, you would be forgiven for thinking those courageous riders were in the saddle for decades instead of just 18 months from April 1860 to October 1861.
Advocates for unemployed workers tried to create some momentum Wednesday for a new bid in Congress to reinstate federal jobless benefits for people unable to find work.
Unification Church members made a pilgrimage to Las Vegas Wednesday, and the holy site that brought them here just happens to also lie beneath a state building.
Robin Warren, 13, of Las Vegas has filed her own initiative petition with the Nevada secretary of state’s office to expand protections for Nevada’s wild horses and burros.
Time appears to be running out for Nevada’s 12-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, along with other, similar prohibitions around the country.
A Reno man appealing his conviction for murdering his wife and trying to assassinate the judge handling their divorce in 2006 told one of his lawyers at the time he believed he was justified in shooting a “corrupt” judge but worried about being viewed as a “nut-case with a rifle.”
A judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a 73-year-old Sparks man charged with murder in the shooting of two unarmed trespassers that is bringing attention to Nevada’s “stand your ground” law.
An inmate escaped from a correctional center late Tuesday night, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
It takes an expert like Bruce Boyd to identify some of the rare butterflies found on Mount Charleston and nowhere else in the world.