For lovers of the outdoors, one of the greatest things about living in the American West is the vast amount of publicly owned land that is available to us.
On July 3, 1975, just before the Fourth of July holiday weekend, a summer monsoon triggered a flash flood in the Las Vegas Valley.
Officials say U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport thwarted a man’s attempt to import several pounds of African rat meat.
The move, approved unanimously by the Clark County School Board early this year, is no longer on the table for Delta Academy and the 100 Academy of Excellence.
Las Vegas has long been considered a candidate should the NBA add or move teams, but commissioner Adam Silver said no such discussions have taken place.
The Old West desert town of Needles, California, is where the beleaguered Joad family crossed the Colorado River into California in John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath” and was a boyhood home to “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz.
Temperatures will be slightly below normal through the July 4th holiday, but breezy afternoons could cause “near-critical fire weather conditions.”
A 67-year-old Reno hiker who had been the target of a missing person search has been found safe after he says he was the victim of a kidnapping and robbery.
Hundreds of New York City police officers honored a former detective who fought until his final days for the extension of health benefits for 9/11 first responders.
Police say an American Fork woman tried to hide drugs inside cards and mail them to her jailed boyfriend.
The same military jurors who acquitted a decorated Navy SEAL of murder in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive under his care in Iraq in 2017 will return to court Wednesday to decide whether he should serve any jail time for the single charge he was convicted of: posing with the 17-year-old militant’s corpse.
Iran’s president warned European partners in its faltering nuclear deal on Wednesday that Tehran will increase its enrichment of uranium to “any amount that we want” beginning on Sunday, putting pressure on them to offer a way around intense U.S. sanctions targeting the country.
President Donald Trump is marshalling tanks, jets and other machinery for a Fourth of July celebration that traditionally is light on military might.
A dam breached and flooded half a dozen villages in western India after heavy monsoon rains, leaving at least seven people dead and 17 others missing, officials said Wednesday.
A fire destroyed a massive Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 barrels of bourbon, sending flames shooting into the night sky and generating so much heat that firetruck lights melted, authorities said Wednesday.
Police are looking for two men who have used a firearm to rob fireworks stands in western Las Vegas.