Las Vegas News

Read Thursday's Vancouver Sun for an overview of this year's Chutzpah festival, a mix of music, dance and theatre.

The woman who was arrested for drunk driving following a crash that left a 15-year-old in critical condition is a Las Vegas first grade teacher.

Spirit Airlines is opening its new crew and maintenance base at McCarrran International Airport today.

A key witness in a Las Vegas felony case alleging a scheme to falsify court-ordered counseling and community service completion records has been arrested.

State Sen. Ruben Kihuen is dropping his bid to become Nevada's first Hispanic congressman after polling and fundraising numbers suggested he would have a hard time winning the Las Vegas-based district.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. After having fled from Henderson eight months ago, Otis Holland was back Tuesday to face multiple felony sexual assault charges for allegedly having sex with underage girls.

A former Las Vegas-area pastor who was nabbed in Mexico after he disappeared with child sex assault charges pending in Nevada is due to face a judge in Henderson.

Clouds will be rolling into the Las Vegas Valley today, holding temperatures down just a bit and bringing a very slight chance of some sprinkles tonight, says Kevin Janison, KSNV-TV meteorologist.

After back-to-back fiascos in Nevada and Iowa, the term "caucus" may be on its way to becoming a bad word in the GOP lexicon.

A group of artists is looking to re-create in the city the counterculture vibe of the annual Burning Man festival in the Northern Nevada desert, complete with a massive, burning sculpture.

JANUARY 01: Recording artist Drake performs at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino January 1, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

A Nevada judge is accepting a plea deal that will get a former top Las Vegas drug crimes prosecutor three years' probation and a chance to clear his record in a felony cocaine possession case.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. The Clark County Coroner's Office has identified a man who died when the motorcycle he was riding crashed Saturday near Rainbow Boulevard and U.S. 95.

JANUARY 17: An attendee tries out a Sig Sauer 1911 model Fastback Nightmare pistol at the Sig Sauer booth at the National Shooting Sports Foundation's 34th annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show at the Sands Expo and Convention Center January 17, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Officers say the accident happened around 8:40 p.m. Sunday night on Rainbow Boulevard, near Wigwam Avenue.

The "caucus" has always been a different sort of animal in the American political system, and for the second time in the 2012 race for the White House, we have seen vote counting troubles from a caucus state.

Newt Gingrich is wooing NASCAR voters.As he charts a possible course to the Republican nomination, aides say Gingrich will paint frontrunner Mitt Romney as the candidate of the PGA golf tour while the former House speaker pursues the blue collar mantle of Dale Earnhardt.It's a strategy that exploits the class warfare Gingrich professes to oppose.

Carlos Condit earned a hard-fought unanimous decision victory over Nick Diaz last night in the main event of UFC 143 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, and shortly after hit "Sin City" hard to bask in his glory.

Valentine's Day is approaching fairly quickly and just because we live in the city of Sin doesn't mean that we can't get our love on around these parts.

A Los Angeles Times reporter was covering a caucus event in southern Nevada when things suddenly got ugly on Saturday.