This week marks the beginning of a nation-wide study in which people, including Nevadans, collect information on birds in an effort track changes in bird populations and distributions.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held Saturday in southern Nevada for a $100,000 monument recognizing American military members who served during the Cold War against the former Soviet Union.
The Internal Revenue Service says eight people have been indicted in federal court in Houston in a Las Vegas-based timeshare resale scheme that bilked about 1,000 victims in the U.S. and Canada out of more than $12 million.
Las Vegas police say an adopted son recently discharged from the Army is jailed and his ex-felon uncle is sought in an Interstate 15 shooting that left a motorist wounded in what investigators described as a divorce murder plot.
A Las Vegas Strip hotel restaurant bearing the initials of celebrity financier Donald Trump was briefly shut down for cleaning recently after failing a routine health department inspection.
The Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the license of a pilot whose business partner died in a crash in Boulder City while the two were giving rides on a pair of military training jets.
A Nevada woman was arrested and animal control officers seized her Yorkshire terrier after police say witnesses saw her beating the dog in a Boston train station bathroom.
A former employee has been sentenced to 22 to 66 years state prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder and other charges in a drunken shotgun rampage at a southwest Las Vegas bar where he worked.
A federal review of Las Vegas police policies and procedures is resulting in 75 recommendations to change departmental practices, including when officers use deadly force.
A Nevada Supreme Court majority has upheld the death penalty for a 45-year-old man convicted in the September 2005 hammer slaying and robbery of two people in Las Vegas.
An Oregon man and a Washington state woman pleaded not guilty in federal court in Las Vegas in what prosecutors allege was a $3 million investment fraud involving a longtime Clark County judge.
Police report that a California man found dead outside a Las Vegas trauma center last month was discharged twice from the hospital after doctors refused his demands for what was described as a "highly narcotic" drug.
Defense attorneys are withdrawing from the case of a 24-year-old man accused of driving under the influence when he crashed a speeding car full of friends into a crowded bus stop, killing four people and injuring eight.
Marketers including a former casino entertainment director say they're developing plans for a new two-day music, food and arts festival to be held in the fall of 2013 in downtown Las Vegas.
