Las Vegas’ burgeoning information technology industry is boosting the entire startup scene, according to a recent report.

When it comes to the founding of Nevada’s biggest cities, it truly is the merry month of May. Las Vegas celebrates its birthday on May 15—the day in 1905 that the railroad auctioned off the townsite that became downtown. And on May 9, 1868, Reno was born in similar fashion.

For college students across the country, commencement formally marks the transition from student to graduate.

Thousands of hotel and casino workers in Las Vegas may walk off the job next month.

A labor union representing thousands of culinary workers in Las Vegas has voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike next month if casinos don't agree to a proposed five-year contract.

There was Cassandra Little, a former foster agency operator who said she was compelled by aggressive prosecutors to plead guilty to a lengthy list of federal Medicaid fraud charges and spent 23 months in a work camp in Victorville, California.

Tens of thousands of hotel and casino workers have voted to authorize a strike next month at dozens of casinos and resorts if contract agreements aren't reached before they expire at the end of May, the Culinary Union announced late Tuesday.

In Pahrump, Nevada – a desert enclave famous for its “live and let live” spirit – you can openly carry a gun, race sports cars, buy marijuana, own lions, gamble and purchase sex. But there’s a movement under way to rein in the frontier town’s freedom-loving ways.