Nevada Sen. Harry Reid wants federal lawmakers to designate almost 550 square miles of remote land northeast of Lake Mead as the Gold Butte National Conservation Area.

Police are asking neighbors for help finding a dark blue vehicle seen leaving a gated northwest Las Vegas community where a 75-year-old woman was found shot dead.

Calvin Meyers, the former chairman of the Moapa Band of Paiutes and outspoken opponent of building a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain north of Las Vegas, has died. He was 57.

A prosecutor in Las Vegas compared two men accused of killing a high school student who refused to let go of his iPad with wild animals ambushing a weak victim.

A University of California, Berkeley, law school graduate has taken a plea deal in the beheading of an exotic bird last October at a Las Vegas Strip resort.

Why have one Las Vegas zip line when you can have three?

Forest officials are marking completion of a 10-month project that expanded and renovated a popular picnic area and trailhead high on Mount Charleston about 30 miles northwest of downtown Las Vegas.

A veteran Las Vegas school administrator who became interim superintendent in March has been named to head the nation's fifth-largest school district.

Authorities say a fugitive arrested and jailed after exchanging gunfire with FBI SWAT agents in a standoff at a Las Vegas apartment complex was wanted on a murder charge in California.

A federal appeals court is giving a man who wants to open a swingers club called "Sextasy" in a Las Vegas shopping center another chance to prove he was improperly denied a county business license.

Health officials say cooked chorizo is the likely source of a salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 300 patrons of a popular Las Vegas tapas restaurant.

Two men will remain jailed without bail pending another court appearance in the death of a teenage boy who police say fell beneath the wheels of their vehicle when he refused to give up his iPad.

A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with the embezzlement of $5.6 million from the prominent builder of residential high-rises in the Vegas area over nearly five years.

Oscar Goodman ran Las Vegas for 12 years with a showgirl on his arm and a martini in his fist.

Terrible's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is changing its name and getting rid of its famous cowboy sign.

Authorities are identifying three people killed in a weekend crash involving a wrong-way driver from Las Vegas and several people from India on Interstate 15 near the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Henderson firefighters continue to investigate the cause of a brush fire that sent flames 70 feet into the sky and burned about three acres at the Whitney Mesa Recreational Area over the weekend.

Authorities have identified a pair involved in a Las Vegas murder-suicide as a Henderson man and a Las Vegas woman.

The latest high-stakes court hearing for O.J. Simpson in the glitzy capital of big gambles has come to a close with the former football star's defense team feeling confident that their client is closer to getting out of prison.

The Nevada Highway Patrol says a wrong-way crash early Sunday near Las Vegas killed three people and critically injured four others.

Las Vegas police said Sunday that two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy after he refused to give up his iPAD.

The Federal Election Commission says former U.S. Sen. John Ensign has agreed to pay a $32,000 civil penalty over a payment made by his parents to his one-time mistress.

Police say they're investigating the deaths of a man and woman at a Las Vegas apartment complex as a murder-suicide.

Testimony has concluded in a Las Vegas court hearing on O.J. Simpson's bid for a retrial of the armed robbery and kidnapping case that led to a conviction and a prison sentence of nine to 33 years.

Firefighters say one person has died after an explosion at a business just outside of Nellis Air Force Base.