A funny thing happened to the local political scene on the way out of this year’s presidential caucuses.

Nevada had a pretty tumultuous Democratic convention in May. Some said chairs were thrown. Others said they were not. But people were yelling and many felt disenfranchised. Threats were made. People were visibly angry.

Fifteen years after they concluded that gun control was a losing issue for them, Democrats say it’s time for a rethink, convinced that a spate of mass shootings has changed the politics and left Americans clamoring for action.

Maria Mendoza, a Mexican-born hotel housekeeper, was out of work and worried about supporting her two daughters when she said she attended a job fair about six years ago and glimpsed her future in a gold-windowed, 64-story hotel just off the Las Vegas Strip. Its name alone sold her.

The young woman standing in front of a cardboard cutout of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said she registered to vote this year to keep her family intact.

Officially, he's Congressman Cresent Hardy.

Unofficially, Democrats add a word: accidental.

CH refers to cholesterol or Switzerland’s internet domain name. Nevada Democrats hope it’s a set of initials with historical connections.

Last time, we were talking about Muhammad Ali … before he was actually Muhammad Ali, just starting out as a professional fighter and winning the seventh bout of his career when he fought for the first time in Las Vegas.

The Thrilla in Manila. The Rumble in the Jungle. The Fight of the Century. Those are the boxing matches for which Muhammad Ali probably will be best remembered. Still others will think of him as a transcendent historic figure—renouncing what he called his slave name, his conversion to Islam, his resistance to the draft during Vietnam, and simply what he represented. For us in Las Vegas, he meant all of that, and more.

In her first speech as Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May spoke to her country’s working-class families and pledged to build a “better Britain” for them.

New national polling from an immigration reform group released on Monday showed Latino voters more engaged in this election than in 2012.

Things aren’t looking too hot for Clark County Republicans after the secretary of state’s office released its monthly voter registration statistics Friday.