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.
Henderson City Council members will discuss proposed ordinances for short-term vacation rentals and hear public comment during a committee meeting on July 16.
Jorge Mateo’s two-run homer keyed a three-run fifth inning as the Aviators held on Tuesday night for an 8-7 Pacific Coast League victory over the Reno Aces before 7,276 at Las Vegas Ballpark.
Law enforcement agencies in Clark County have investigated 70 homicides between Jan. 1 and June 30, according to Review-Journal records.
Hong Kong protests and an opportunity for tyranny.
Why contribute to Medicare if they’re going to make it free for illegal immigrants?
More progressive delusions.
As America celebrates its birthday as the “land of the free,” its citizens have two profoundly different ideas of freedom.
The cold case gained fresh attention in recent months following an anonymous tip about where Emanuela Orlandi might be buried.
Trump has frequently criticized Democrats’ efforts to get Mueller to testify.
The U.N. refugee agency in Libya condemned the airstrike on the detention center, which houses 616 migrants and refugees.
The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority will wait at least until late August before deciding whether to place a bid on the old Moulin Rouge site in downtown Las Vegas.
Over 20 people showed up June 27 at Starbucks for coffee with Las Vegas City Councilman Cedric Crear. Crear said the meetings won’t be held in July and August.
He was famous for his TV ads from that time, in which he said: “If you can find a better car, buy it!”
Raul Saldivar and Leo Saucedo were among five students in the College of Southern Nevada’s film program who were award winners at a ceremony at the M Resort.
Donato Cabrera and the Philharmonic resume their partnership with Nevada Public Radio beginning 2 p.m. Sunday on Classical 89.7-FM.
Critics of President Trump accused him of accepting a nuclear armed North Korea, but administration officials denied the charge and said negotiations are ongoing.
A Las Vegas police officer who froze one floor beneath the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman has been fired, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
The private plane was not required to have a flight data recorder, which tracks the performance of virtually every system on board.