Las Vegas is home to minor league sports teams: Las Vegas Aviators (Minor League Baseball), Las Vegas Lights FC (USL Championship) and Henderson Silver Knights (American Hockey League). The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) plays NCAA Division I sports, and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosts races throughout the year.

Concern is growing across the Las Vegas Valley for a missing poker player from Japan. Friends say he disappeared on the same day he was hoping to play in the World Series of Poker Main Event. According to a Metro Police report,

Kung Fu Thai & Chinese Restaurant has introduced the “Best Chow Mein Combination in Las Vegas.” This new menu item showcases the restaurant’s commitment to capturing authentic Southeast Asian flavors.

A shooting is under investigation in downtown Las Vegas, according to LVMPD. A suspect was given medical attention and taken to a nearby hospital, where officials say they were pronounced dead.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide near Russell Road and Buffalo Drive. Police say the incident happened around 12:30 Wednesday morning. According to police, someone was shot several times in a garage. They died at the scene.

Athletics owner John Fisher quietly made one of the most expensive home purchases in Las Vegas history at the end of 2024. Fisher purchased a $29.25 million, 10,094 square-foot two-story home in the ultra-luxury,

AJ McLean is on Zoom on Monday afternoon from the dimly lighted living room of a house he’s renting in Las Vegas. Known in the late 1990s as the resident bad boy of his pop group, Backstreet Boys, McLean, now 47, says he’s getting accustomed to the area in the hopes of buying a place in town next year.

LVMPD shared that an active barricade began around 2 p.m. in the 2000 block of Canterbury Drive in central Las Vegas.

A bout half a year before the A's officially broke ground in Las Vegas for their new stadium, reviled owner John Fisher dropped nearly $30 million in the region in one of the most expensive home sales in Las Vegas history.