Authorities have identified a 66-year-old woman who died in a two-alarm Las Vegas apartment blaze as Carol Sue Klasell.

A veteran Las Vegas attorney and 2008 state judicial candidate is going to federal prison for almost three years for evading federal income taxes in 1994 and 1996.

Officials at the M Resort in Henderson say a Las Vegas local has won $17.3 million at one of the casino's slot machines.

A murder charge has been dismissed against a former Las Vegas-area millionaire who had been accused of killing his wife's lover in 1979.

The Tony Award-winning musical "The Book of Mormon" is coming to Las Vegas.

The nonprofit Nevada News Bureau has announced it will suspend operations after it fell short of its fundraising goals.

Authorities have identified a 31-year-old gunman who fatally wounded a concierge desk worker and killed himself at a Las Vegas Strip casino hotel as Edward C. Brandt of Lake Forest, Ill.

Authorities have identified a 28-year-old gunman who was shot and killed by tribal police officers trying to arrest him at the Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza off Interstate 15.

Fire officials are calling an intense Las Vegas apartment blaze that killed one woman and injured another accidental.

The future of the American labor movement may lie just off the Las Vegas Strip, inside a squat building huddled in the shadow of the Stratosphere casino.

Researchers say they've found the first evidence that an extinct, ice age wolf species once lived in Nevada.

Researchers say a pair of fossils unearthed in the hills north of Las Vegas belonged to a saber-toothed cat.

Authorities say a person has died while skydiving in windy weather south of Las Vegas.

A Las Vegas man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the shooting death of a friend earlier this year.

Police say a man and woman are dead after a murder-suicide shooting at a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

The National Park Service says personal watercraft owners with carbureted two-stroke engines are going to have to keep their Jet-Skis, SeaDoos and WaveRunners off Lake Mead and Lake Mohave after Jan. 1.

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid is declaring congressional efforts to legalize Internet poker dead for the year.

Police say the uncle of a 21-year-old man already facing charges has been arrested in a southern Nevada freeway shooting that appeared to be a random drive-by, but that investigators say stemmed from a murder plot hatched over a bitter divorce.

A prosecutor says he's almost positive a Las Vegas man who was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison in a mortgage fraud case will go back to preying on distressed homeowners.

A 40-year-old former construction company manager now living in Illinois has become the 28th person to take a plea deal in an ongoing federal probe of southern Nevada homeowner associations steering business to favored attorneys and businesses.

Authorities say a veteran Las Vegas traffic officer has been suspended without pay following his arrest on felony fraud charges in a workers' compensation case.

The district attorney is clearing two Henderson police officers in the July 23 death of an unarmed fugitive in a kidnap-slaying case who led police on a chase and tried to commandeer a passing motorist's vehicle.

Nevada residents who pine to play the lottery will soon be able to buy Powerball tickets.

A hospital in northwest Las Vegas is hosting a decontamination drill simulating the release of radiation due to a criminal act.

Rising demand and falling supply are spurring talk in the arid West of outside-the-box ideas like piping water from the nation's heartland and towing Arctic icebergs south to help thirsty U.S. cities like Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix.