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Members of the Coronado High basketball team took turns hoisting the state championship trophy, celebrating the school’s first title in nearly 25 years of existence.

Metro Police is expanding its counterterrorism response beyond Clark County’s borders through the “Meridian Project,” a new initiative Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill detailed during Friday’s state of the department address.

A Portland, Oregon, company is recalling nearly 3.4 million pounds of frozen chicken fried rice products sold at Trader Joe’s stores and in Canada because they may contain pieces of glass, U.S. Agriculture Department officials reported.

Mario Barrios, for the second fight in a row, is the WBC welterweight champion, but arguably not the main attraction.

Foundation work on the Athletics’ stadium is complete, according to the project director, and officials for the contractor and team told the Las Vegas Stadium Authority on Thursday they remain on target …

Cherry Development is building a five-story, 104-unit apartment building in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside and announced a February 25 groundbreaking for The Good Word Social Club, a “first of its kind gathering space.”

Wildlife experts agree that beavers are uncommon and unexpected in Southern Nevada. But wherever streams burble and woody trees grow, beavers can establish a home — and while much of the Las Vegas area seems …

When Boulder City was created in 1931, alcohol sales were not allowed. That policy stayed in place until 1969, well after the end of Prohibition.

Longtime Boulder City residents started noticing a resurgence in the historic district in the ’90s with the opening of Milo’s Cellar, the beginnings of a “domino effect” setting off a series of private and public investments in the area.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection abruptly withdrew from a recruiting career fair at the College of Southern Nevada after an outcry from students and faculty, who condemned the …