Cristina Silva

Mormon parents defend their gay children in a new video that confronts The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ disapproval of same-sex relationships.

ELKO, Nev.  — Nevada has emerged as both a winner and a loser in a nationwide overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service.

LAS VEGAS -- Rescue crews completed the difficult process of recovering bodies Thursday from a remote canyon outside Las Vegas after the crash of a tour helicopter belonging to a company with repeated aviation violations.

Sundance Helicopters of Las Vegas had at least five accidents and was the subject of 10 federal enforcement actions since 1994. It charted a luxury sunset tour of the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam on Wednesday that killed a 31-year-old pilot and his four passengers.

LAS VEGAS -- Western states are becoming more urban and diverse, with an influx of Hispanic, Asian and young voters who tend to vote against Republican candidates, according to political strategists who spoke Monday at a Democratic conference.

LAS VEGAS -- After years of neglecting its public schools and high-tech sectors to dote on a mighty gambling industry, Nevada now needs to get smart to get rich, a sociology professor told state leaders Friday.

The Silver State's all-consuming love affair with casinos has made Las Vegas the least educated metropolitan area in the West, overwhelmingly dependent on the wealth of other states and vulnerable to every economic tremor, said Robert Lang, director of Brookings Mountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

"We are way more dependent on consumer spending than anywhere else," said Lang at an economic summit attended by lawmakers, business leaders and policymakers.

LAS VEGAS -- Gamblers on the Las Vegas Strip awoke to snow flurries Monday morning as part of a winter storm that turned the main highway between Southern and Central California into a snowy, icy parking lot.