Bob Taylor’s Original Ranch House tells the story of Las Vegas from the very first sight of it, a real ’50s ranch house surrounded by the stucco tract houses that epitomize modern suburbia.
To our out-of-town visitors, Las Vegas means blackjack, strippers and $100 steaks. It’s our civic duty to show them a side not included on casino-funded TV commercials. Following are some of our favorite places to drive them kicking and screaming (until they get there and realize we are right).
“Brunch” and “buffet” go together in Las Vegas like “casino” and “gamble”; it’s difficult to imagine one without the other.
To Winky Wright, rust, like age, is a relative thing.
The president was so interested he took time out from saving the country from economic ruin to fill out his bracket. Television ratings have been up even though Billy Packer is working this NCAA Tournament from the Wynn Las Vegas sports book and, thanks to Villanova, we don’t have to see Mike Krzyzewski’s smiling face for another year.
BOSTON — It was physical. It was defensive. It was just the way they like it in the Big East.
Bishop Gorman’s baseball team entered its Southwest League showdown at Sierra Vista on Saturday with a chance to take sole possession of first place in league.
The combination of a faltering economy and a pulsating NCAA Tournament has created loads of fodder for late-night comedians.
Admire him or not, Tyler Hansbrough has been remarkably productive in his four years at North Carolina. While his effort is off the charts, critics say his style leaves a little to be desired.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid said Friday he plans to revive a bill that would crack down on polygamy-related crimes and help people seeking to leave polygamist communities.
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a bill last week to expand government-sponsored service programs, with the goal to triple the number of Americans enrolled in volunteer service.
The Ward 6 race for Las Vegas City Council started out contentiously and rapidly progressed to rancorous, with the candidates describing each other as compromised by special interests and unable to represent everyday citizens.
GOV. JIM GIBBONS LAST WEEK SPOKE to the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce, an audience that included a visiting delegation of Thai businessmen. After his speech, which focused on the economic promise of renewable energy, he took a couple of questions.
Celebrity impersonator Trina Johnson-Finn, jailed in Suriname, is suffering from dehydration and anemia, but told her mother, “Don’t worry about me.”
The atmosphere onstage resembled a family reunion, albeit a family with lots of tall, glamorous women in heels.
These are hard times for the corporate casino racket, but as I stepped into Emilio Muscelli’s home at the Las Vegas Country Club I was reminded of just how far this gambling town has risen from its notorious roots.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers start the ninth week of their 2009 session on Monday with more hearings that are likely to produce challenges to deep budget cuts proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
The $8.7 billion CityCenter development avoided a bankruptcy filing and potential shutdown Friday with a $200 million payment that allowed construction work to continue on the 76-acre Strip site.
Signs and message boards up and down the Strip — the planet’s brightest spot from space — went dark Saturday to commemorate Earth Hour.
Overtime costs for Clark County firefighters keep flaring up like a stubborn blaze.
My curious little state of Arkansas, conservative and nominally Democratic, is something of a ground zero in the raging battle between management and labor over whether to allow unions to be formed by the filing of employee cards.
As professors at UNLV’s School of Life Sciences, we are extremely concerned about the budget situation in Nevada. We work hard, teaching several thousand students every semester, training many of them in our laboratories, writing grants to conduct cutting-edge research and publishing our results in prestigious scientific journals as well as in books and textbooks.