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Retired NFL player Brett Favre has repaid $600,000 in state welfare money he accepted for speeches where he didn’t appear …

In a decisive vote this week, elected officials in the San Francisco Bay Area pushed forward a plan to build a new ballpark for the Oakland A’s. In recent months, A’s officials have flirted with …

Nationwide, women make up 51% of the U.S. casino workforce, according to the American Gaming Association. But the group does not track women in top casino jobs …

Charlie Morton spun a curveball past Jose Altuve for a called third strike, his 16th pitch after taking a 102 mph comebacker off his right leg. Morton stumbled and started to fall. Turns out the leg was broken.

Early on this season, the Golden Knights had a problem holding leads. They had scored first in all but one of their opening five games, and went on to lose all but one of them. Even in that one win …

Alec Baldwin the actor, who pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming “Rust” in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director, likely won’t be held criminally or civilly liable for the tragedy.

The number of boats that inspectors stopped from launching at Lake Tahoe while carrying aquatic invasive species reached a record high this year, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency said.

The amount of rain that fell in Reno the last two days was nearly as much as the previous 12 months combined as rainfall records fell across much of northern Nevada, the National Weather Service said Tuesday.

Go out for a night on the town in some U.S. cities and you might find yourself waiting while someone at the door of the restaurant or theater closely inspects your vaccination card …

The Clark County School District is prepared to pay new and existing bus drivers and other transportation workers up to $1,500 each in hiring and retention bonuses to combat a crippling employee shortage, pending school board approval this week …