Green Valley baseball coach Nick Garritano knew it was a little early to be plotting playoff strategy, but he couldn’t help himself Wednesday.
Two of the most exciting words in sports — Game 7 — were made mundane by the Wranglers in their wire-to-wire 5-1 win over Bakersfield on Wednesday at the Orleans Arena.
• LAKE MEAD — Fishing success has been as sporadic as good weather. Striper action has been fair in the Vegas Bay Arm. Cut baits such as anchovies, sardines and squid have been catching the fish.
The deadline for submitting big-game tag applications was 5 p.m. Monday, and I’m hopeful that you made the deadline. Of course, there are always a few who manage to miss the deadline.
Clark County inspectors have caught Harrah’s Las Vegas employees doing construction work, again, without a building permit.
A man wielding a 17-inch knife was shot by at least two Las Vegas police officers responding to a domestic violence call Tuesday night.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has won first place for explanatory reporting in the Best of the West contest, recognized as the most prestigious journalism contest spanning the 13 Western states.
Henderson police have arrested two men and charged them with placing two home-made explosives in a Burlington Coat Factory store Tuesday night.
CARSON CITY — Key lawmakers said Wednesday the hole in Nevada’s budget has grown by another $100 million, bringing the projected shortfall closer to $3 billion to maintain current government service levels in the next two fiscal years.
A program that will allow Clark County residents to swap gasoline-powered lawn mowers for electric ones is doubling in size this year, thanks to a $200,000 donation from NV Energy.
Las Vegas officials plan today to sign off on a final version of the municipal ballot that does not include two measures that were the subject of a rancorous fight between the city and the Culinary union.
Las Vegas police are searching for additional victims of two suspects accused of bilking at least 11 elderly people out of tens of thousands of dollars.
Elton John closed out his five-year, 241-show engagement at Caesars Palace on Wednesday with “Your Song” and hints that he might be returning to Las Vegas.
The Vegas Mob Tour has been on my “to do” list for nearly three years, and this past week I finally did the deed, using my uncle’s visit as an excuse.
CARSON CITY — Critics of a plan to fluoridate Reno-area water got so worked up Wednesday that state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford had to bang his gavel to wrap up public comment on the measure.
CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford found nothing but support on Earth Day for his bill to use federal stimulus money to create “green jobs” for the anticipated renewable energy economy in Nevada.
Walking into the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at Luxor, 3900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is supposed to give you the feeling that you’re not only viewing items from the famous ship, you’re actually boarding the Titanic.
It looks like a casino race book in midafternoon. But rather than a constantly shifting mass of railbirds peering at TV screens to see how their horses are faring, this crowd is made up of theater buffs peering at video monitors to see how much of a discount they can score on tickets for tonight’s shows.
So, U2 tickets went on sale last week, and if you’ve noticed a sudden increase in the number of folks hobbling around the valley, it’s because so many of them gave an arm and leg to get some.
Some partnerships are arranged at birth, like Flamingo headliners Donny and Marie Osmond.
Need to shorten a URL, but don’t like the mishmash of numbers and letters some sites give you? Check out www.socuteurl.com. Enter a Web site address you’d like shortened, and this site will give it an adorable name involving words such as peppydog and mashygooboo.
The 11th annual Spring Art Walk will take place Saturday and Sunday at Trails Village Center, 1970 Village Center Circle. The event is open to the public with free admission and parking from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. both days.
The Contemporary Arts Collective is taking mass transit to the art museum — quite literally. Its “Stop and Glow” exhibition, running today through May 23, showcases artwork destined for downtown bus stops this fall.
Original jazz will be performed by the Shapiro Project quartet Friday at Reed Whipple Cultural Center.