A backer of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has pleaded guilty to making threats against a federal official.

Abraham Lincoln never set foot in Nevada, but the histories of the state and the nation's 16th president are forever intertwined.

A new book from UNLV assistant professor Cian McMahon looks at the historical Irish immigration that took place between 1840 and 1880.

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid might be retiring, but that isn’t stopping him from being provocative.

Republicans won’t have Senator Harry Reid to kick around anymore. And Nevadans won’t have Reid to bring home the pork, or to protect the state.

Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic leader who announced his retirement last week, settled into a corner booth at the Triple George Grill here, his faced masked by dark sunglasses, evidence of lingering injuries from a workout accident that left him blind in one eye.

In a relatively small state, Harry Reid loomed terrifically large, so his decision to exit the U.S. Senate after 2016 opens a massive void that left members of both parties scrambling.

Tear down your red velvet ropes, Las Vegas. The Stratosphere casino-hotel’s new marketing campaign, which masquerades as a cause, is appealing to a crowd of likely Las Vegas Strip visitors that’s less keen on nightclub bottle service or high-priced fine-dining and more interested in cheap drinks and freebies.