1920 – First plane lands in Las Vegas on May 7. For three days the pilot sells $10 rides. First airstrip, Anderson Field, opens six months later at what is now the site of the Sahara.
The $2.4 billion expansion at McCarran International Airport, known as Terminal 3, begins flight operations on Wednesday. The new terminal has 14 gates, seven domestic and seven international.
When it inaugurated its Las Vegas-Duesseldorf, Germany, flights on May 10, airberlin was late for its own party.
The important features visitors and locals will see as they arrive in and depart from Las Vegas.
If you define “art” as a painting, in a frame, hung on a wall – then McCarran International Airport’s new Terminal 3 has no art. But if you look beyond – and above – that definition, T3 is Las Vegas’ newest gallery.
When the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association’s board of control holds its summer meeting Monday and Tuesday at The Orleans, its agenda runs the gamut from the pledge of allegiance and regular reports to action items on new member schools and liability insurance.
A house fire killed seven dogs in North Las Vegas on Saturday but a couple inside the house on North Decatur Boulevard near Alexander Drive managed to escape without injury, Fire Chief Frank Taylor said.
Authorities say that parts of northern Nevada have been shaken by a small earthquake. A preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-4.2 quake struck at 8:51 p.m. Friday at a depth of about seven miles.
Las Vegas police said a 74-year-old Las Vegas man committed suicide early Saturday after firing a weapon at his wife who fled their home on Furnace Gulch Avenue near Fort Apache Road.
National Park Service rangers and members of the U.S. Coast Guard launched a search Saturday for a 28-year-old airman from Creech Air Force Base who went missing in Lake Mead after he jumped out of a 21-foot boat to go for a swim, authorities said.
Two-thousand local families were given $500 U.S. Bank gift cards from an anonymous Las Vegas casino owner on Saturday at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas.