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Madeleine Hebert was never athletic as a young child. She got involved in sports through dancing, and it was fun to start.

It’s been a wild past year for the team, rife with the highest of highs, and to be fair, at least a couple of recent lows.

Rachel Levy had prepared for a severe incident of this nature countless times. So when she heard frantic screams calling her name from observers at Desert Oasis High School after a flag football player collapsed and was unconscious, reacting was like …

Maintaining poise in the toughest moments is a concept almost all coaches preach, but few ever get a chance to demonstrate it as flawlessly as LaShondra Rayford did earlier this year.

The six-time All Star during her WNBA playing days will be enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame this August.

An agreement between the state, the Oakland A’s and Clark County to fund a baseball stadium on the Las Vegas Strip will be forwarded to the Nevada Legislature for …

Ever the prankster, Brooks walked over to the side of the stage, out of most of the audience’s sight. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the recognizable voice said over the Colosseum’s sound system. “Please welcome the greatest artist I’ve ever known: Garth Bro…

It’s about 3 a.m. Saturday, and the scene at the Kinetic Field at the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Speedway is, well, kinetic. Marshmello has just finished a set lasting about 85 minutes with pounding, thumping, high-energy tunes …

The financial preparedness of new generations of adults in the United States has steadily declined since Generation X—the age group that preceded millennials—first came onto the scene, says Matt Bees, a Las Vegas-based senior financial adviser at Well…

Joyce Calimag’s logic to volunteering is simple: She’s paying it forward. “I’m giving back because they gave to me,” Calimag said. “Growing up, we were impoverished and needed resources from community groups. I want to help people facing …