Hundreds of gamblers and locals lined up Monday for the opening of Ohio’s fourth casino.
Bank of Nevada said Monday it was named Financial Institution of the Year by the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Southern Nevada. The Las Vegas-based bank was honored Saturday at the 16th annual Spotlight Awards.
UNLV coach Bobby Hauck said he thought the Rebels had a crisp first day of spring football practice Monday.
A thrilling knockout victory in the country where he became a star could’ve provided Las Vegan Wanderlei Silva the perfect opportunity to retire on top.
At random points during the girls basketball season, Faith Lutheran senior Julia Benko would surprise her teammates and coaches by bringing cupcakes to practice.
Long before he was named executive vice president and general manager of Showtime Sports in November 2011, Stephen Espinoza had a plan.
It’s a common scene for parents: The mother holds the baby while the father does everything he can to get a smile or a laugh from the child while the photographer aims the camera.
MINNEAPOLIS — Alonzo Mourning never did it. Shaquille O’Neal didn’t, either. Even Dwyane Wade had never won 15 games in a row as a member of the Miami Heat.
It’s Tuesday, and everyone is entitled to my opinion:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday nominated MIT professor Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy, tapping a nuclear physicist whose resume includes more than a passing familiarity with radioactive waste.
Accused of patient dumping, Nevada health officials on Monday said they’re investigating what led Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services to release a 48-year-old mentally ill man from a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital and put him on a Greyhound to Sacramento, Calif.
Accidents happen. But this one might be difficult to explain.
The taxi drivers strike against Yellow Checker Star Transportation entered its second day Monday with no reports of service disruptions amid a relatively light week for conventions.
Representatives of Malaysia-based Genting Group were so sure about spending $2 billion to $7 billion to develop Resorts World Las Vegas on the 87-acre Strip site of the unfinished Echelon, they visited all ends of Nevada to make their pitch.
Gnats already have started to emerge in the neighborhood along the Sloan Channel.
A bankrupt Las Vegas developer was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Monday in a commercial real estate scheme that authorities say cost investors roughly $1.8 million.
CARSON CITY — Nevada ended its recognition of Arizona concealed-weapon permits Monday after learning the state’s training requirements were changed to standards below those required in Nevada.
CARSON CITY — To keep Nevada “First in the West,” Sen. James Settelmeyer introduced a bill Monday to require presidential primaries to be conducted in the third week in January.
Illinois private equity firm Z Capital Partners withdrew its nonbinding proposal to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Affinity Gaming.
WASHINGTON — As Congress looks to cut government spending, Sen. Dean Heller said Monday the U.S. Senate can find savings by looking in the mirror.
On the eve of a contested shareholders meeting, slot machine manufacturer International Game Technology announced an 8 cents per share dividend for stockholders that is payable in a month.
CARSON CITY — Sen. Pat Spearman, a North Las Vegas pastor and openly gay member of the Legislature, asked her colleagues on the Judiciary Committee on Monday to expand the state’s hate crime law to include victims of gender identity or expression.
Dipak Desai, the physician charged in the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak, was treated for another possible stroke during a hospital stay last week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
The Laugh Factory comedy club at the Tropicana will stage a benefit show Wednesday for the family of Michael Boldon, the taxi driver who died when his cab exploded in the Feb. 21 shooting on the Strip.
The UNLV baseball team had another explosive offensive night, ripping Hawaii 14-1 Monday at Wilson Stadium for its sixth straight victory.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. called media accounts of the company’s self-reporting that it may have violated federal law that bans the bribing of foreign public officials “misleading and sensationalistic.”
LOS ANGELES — A self-proclaimed pimp who Las Vegas police suspect is behind a deadly shooting and fiery car crash that killed three people on the Strip in February will remain behind bars in Los Angeles County until Nevada law enforcement proves his identity, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Monday.
CARSON CITY — Legislators and parole officers questioned Monday why Gov. Brian Sandoval wants to move part of the Division of Parole and Probation into the Department of Corrections when the agency is working fine.
CARSON CITY — The attorney for embattled Assemblyman Steven Brooks on Monday filed a writ with the Nevada Supreme Court asking that the troubled lawmaker be allowed to serve in the Legislature.
Nevada Highway Patrol reported two accidents on U.S. Highway 95 near Eastern Avenue on Monday morning.