I approached Saturday’s “Defying Gravity: The Music of Stephen Schwartz” with apprehension.
When the final numbers come out, Saturday’s Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view event probably will be one of the most viewed in the company’s history.
So much for a convincing victory for the Wranglers, who nearly squandered a four-goal lead in a 6-5 win over Bakersfield on Monday at the Orleans Arena.
Brigitte Rigon picked the perfect time to ignore her coach on Monday.
Each essay was titled “Yes We Can!” and local schoolchildren were asked to write about an event in black history they felt most changed or influenced America.
Around midnight on May 19, 2005, the lifeless body of Timothy Hadland was discovered in the middle of an isolated road near Lake Mead.
It’s mere chance that brings me to write about the unlikely possibility of legalizing prostitution on the same day the state legislators gathered in Carson City to commence the 75th session of Nevada’s lawmaking body.
This weekend, Mötley Crüe will be the last band to play the Hard Rock Hotel’s Joint, which is going away to make way for a bigger Joint.
Years ago, in Greenville, S.C., a teenage Betsy Fretwell participated in a mock city government day at her high school. The students drew positions to see what they would be.
Colorful longtime advocate for the homeless John 3:16 Cook is running for mayor of North Las Vegas.
Three people were shot, one fatally, on Sunday near Twain Avenue and Swenson Street.
An open door may have been a factor in last week’s tour bus crash that killed seven people and injured several more south of Hoover Dam, an attorney said Monday.
WASHINGTON — Following up on a conference in Las Vegas last August, experts at a clean energy summit planned for later this month will strategize the next steps to building a green economy, it was announced Monday.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., has been named to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, winning permission from House leaders to add to her workload.
The “Rolling Thunder” has returned from another tour of war-torn Iraq. To the cheers of family and friends, about 230 of the 300 Army Reserve soldiers from the Las Vegas-based 257th Transportation Company arrived Monday night at Nellis Air Force Base after a deployment in Iraq and Kuwait.
CARSON CITY — In the midst of the worst recession in generations, the 75th session of the Nevada Legislature opened Monday with Democratic leaders warning of spending cuts and promising to retain essential services.
The 63-year-old head of the only hospital that focuses solely on cancer in Michigan has been named the Nevada Cancer Institute’s new director and chief executive officer.
Punxsutawney Phil has spoken, emerging Monday to see his shadow and forecast six more weeks of winter. But the legendary reptile Mojave Max remains in his hidey-hole. Clark County officials boast that Max is superior to the eastern groundhog. He is better, they contend, at alerting us busy humans to the onset of spring. There is no shadow involved. No silliness. When Max comes out, it’s springtime. Before that, it is winter.
CARSON CITY — Nevadans are wasting no time in sending ideas to state lawmakers, who convened their 2009 session on Monday — and already have about 1,200 suggestions on taxing prostitution, creating a state lottery and other steps to help erase a revenue shortfall.
A friend remembered a 21-year-old man shot and killed over the weekend outside a restaurant as an athletic jokester who loved making others laugh.
A federal judge apologized numerous times Monday before sentencing a retired government employee to one year of probation for violating conflict of interest laws.
An unarmed man was fatally shot in the back as he attempted to flee Victor Sung Park’s pawnshop with a Cartier watch Friday, according to Las Vegas police.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is the latest Democratic Party figure — and the second Obama administration Cabinet nominee — to be humiliated as a tax cheat and delinquent. On Monday, Mr. Daschle humbly apologized to the Senate committee that will, in all likelihood, still confirm him as Health and Human Services secretary.
Community Bank of Nevada on Monday reported an abrupt turnaround in quarterly earnings — from $1 million in third quarter profit to a $133.3 million loss in the fourth quarter.
