Posted: 3:36 PM 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.

Posted: 2:02 PM 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.

Posted: 1:55 PM 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.

Posted: 12:35 PM 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.

Updated: 9:24 AM 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.

Posted: 4:34 PM Why have one Las Vegas zip line when you can have three?

Posted: 3:31 PM 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.

Posted: 3:23 PM A veteran Las Vegas school administrator who became interim superintendent in March has been named to head the nation's fifth-largest school district.

Posted: 3:03 PM 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.

Posted: 2:58 PM 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.

Posted: 2:53 PM 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.

Posted: 10:45 AM 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.

Posted: 9:02 AM 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.

Posted: 7:29 AM Oscar Goodman ran Las Vegas for 12 years with a showgirl on his arm and a martini in his fist.

Posted: 10:02 PM Terrible's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is changing its name and getting rid of its famous cowboy sign.

Posted: 3:25 PM 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.

Posted: 8:29 AM 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.

Posted: 8:39 PM Authorities have identified a pair involved in a Las Vegas murder-suicide as a Henderson man and a Las Vegas woman.

Posted: 3:57 PM 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.

Posted: 11:25 AM The Nevada Highway Patrol says a wrong-way crash early Sunday near Las Vegas killed three people and critically injured four others.

Updated: 12:37 PM 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.

Updated: 9:12 AM 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.

Posted: 8:50 AM Police say they're investigating the deaths of a man and woman at a Las Vegas apartment complex as a murder-suicide.

Updated: 5:07 PM 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.

Posted: 12:29 PM Firefighters say one person has died after an explosion at a business just outside of Nellis Air Force Base.