In the wake of a United States Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on sports betting, state gambling regulators are fighting suggestions by major sports leagues that gambling should be overseen at the federal level.

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.

As doctors wheeled 75-year-old Mary Kay Duda into surgery for a pancreatic tumor, she turned to her daughter, Katie, and said, “See you on the flip side.”

Having played for Moldova two years ago in the Davis Cup, UNLV senior Alexandr Cozbinov knows what it’s like to play on a big stage.

In December 2017, Adam Liptak, the Supreme Court reporter for The Times, was sitting next to an animated Gov. Chris Christie as he listened to arguments for what could become one of Mr. Christie’s greatest legacy successes — a rare beacon of light in a scandal-ridden administration, and a case that could change the interpretation of the United States Constitution’s anti-commandeering doctrine for decades to come.

Officials in Henderson, Nev., plan to explore how drones, with their birds-eye view of emergency situations, can be used by the city’s fire department. It’s one of the reasons why Henderson wants to issue an RFP to look into how the aerial devices can become part of its buffet of smart city technological advancements.

A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers kicked off an anti-gerrymandering campaign this month. They want to take redistricting decisions out of the hands of state legislators and put it into the hands of twelve voters.