WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a giant federal lands bill Thursday that advances a handful of Nevada projects that were stalled in Congress last year including the study of historical Cold War landmarks.
WASHINGTON — Work assignments for Nevada lawmakers in the new Congress rounded into shape this week.
“Folies Bergere,” the longest-running show on the Strip and one that helped make feathered showgirls the image of Las Vegas, will close March 28 after 49 years.
North Las Vegas State of the City addresses are traditionally upbeat affairs that focus on the bright side of life in the city.
North Las Vegas detectives arrested two of the department’s own officers Thursday, who are suspected of misconduct during a December incident involving a casino patron.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman greeted the 2009 Miss America contestants Thursday with an offer that pageant organizers emphatically turned down.
A program to encourage global travelers to visit everywhere from Las Vegas resorts to California beaches could be tucked into the $825 billion economic stimulus bill unveiled Thursday in Congress.
A handful of people showed up Thursday to voice their opinions about the way Nevada handles allegations of judicial misconduct.
Nevada has made minor strides in caring for its youngest residents but still lags behind most of the country when it comes to children’s safety, health and education, according to the latest report card from the Children’s Advocacy Alliance.
A man who drove through the gates of Nellis Air Force Base in a U-Haul truck and claimed to have an explosive Thursday afternoon prompted a shutdown of the base for about two hours.
Vince Neil got into an expensive fender-bender near the Hard Rock Hotel on Thursday. I know this because I called him at 4 p.m., and he said, “I just got rear-ended in my Lamborghini.”
CARSON CITY — In a grim State of the State address, Gov. Jim Gibbons Thursday pitched his budget not as a set of drastic cuts, but as the state’s only route back to prosperity, which he said could not be achieved through higher taxes.
The documentary begins with two men rehearsing dialogue in what appears to be a wide-open field. They seem content, dedicated and talented. But then, the camera pulls back and reveals a guard tower, fences and the faces of other prisoners.
Ghostbar can consider itself unique for a lot of things, including the lowercase typography of its name and a reputation as MTV’s home away from home with high-profile gigs on the channel’s “The Real World” and Video Music Awards.
Here to tell you all about her “co-dependency rehab” is Lisa Lampanelli — queen of Comedy Central roasts, frequent “Howard Stern Show” comedian, and maybe a co-star of an upcoming HBO show.
On Thursday, one Hard Rock Hotel player will win two leather recliners, a 52-inch TV plus a catered Super Bowl party for 10. Other “Ready for the Big Game” winners will receive a digital camera, Blu-ray player, Sirius radio or free play. Rockstar Club members receive one automatic entry for every 100 points ($100-$600 coin-in) earned on his or her card from Monday through Thursday. Players must swipe their card on Thursday (5 p.m.-6:55 p.m.) to activate their entries and must be present at the 7 p.m. drawing to win.
Movies do love-at-first-sight all the time. But like-at-first-sight? That’s a more uncommon commodity.
Las Vegas, bless its heart, loves a buffet. That’s what came to mind when we saw the crowds at Texas de Brazil early on a weeknight.
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Jay White was doing his Neil Diamond tribute in a Riviera cabaret when the real Neil played the MGM Grand Garden in 2002. And he still was doing it three weeks ago, when Diamond returned.
You remember how to whistle (“The Andy Griffith Show” theme), don’t ya? You just put your lips together and (call up that catchy melody from your memory) blow.
It started years ago, on a Tuesday night in Santa Monica, Calif., where a legend was born in Budweiser. Now in its 11th year, the tournament began at the Gold Coast in 1998 before briefly moving to the now-shuttered Castaways and eventually landing at Sam’s Town.
Tom Jones is on the phone while catching some rays by his pool in Beverly Hills, which even in January is exactly where you would expect him to be.
President-elect Barack Obama’s designee for treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, faces questions about how he could have “forgotten” to report and pay more than $32,000 in self-employment taxes when he worked for the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2004.
When Oscar Goodman was elected Las Vegas mayor in the spring of 1999, his top priority was downtown redevelopment. At the time, he surely believed he could turn things around in just a few years.
In September, Bob Loux, executive director of the state’s Nuclear Waste Project Office — the outfit charged with blocking federal plans to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain — resigned from office.