We’re all familiar with Mother’s Day. Father’s Day, too. We mark our calendars for the holidays, remind ourselves to get gifts, and always make the phone calls.
Veronic DiCaire was coached on her Celine Dion impression by a true expert.
When it comes to the Vegas Indie Film Fest! less is most definitely more.
■ LAKE MEAD — Competitive and recreational anglers alike found good action for smallmouth and largemouth bass over the weekend. Windy conditions stirred up the water, but anglers casting dark plastics found success. Anglers are catching striped bass from Vegas Wash to 33 Hole; however, most are on the small side. Gizzard shad can be found in the back of the wash.
Maybe an old-fashioned cage match would settle it.
While many of us have personalized license plates on our vehicles that tell the world what we would like to do, Larry Brinker’s license plate tells the world what he actually does, which is catch bass. You might even say his truck is just “4bassin.”
I’m not sure even Justin Timberlake could bring sexy back to this year’s NFL Draft. Wouldn’t matter, anyway. He would be late to the news conference honoring his achievement.
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline will be looking for a new general counsel and executive director when David Sarnowski retires June 30, and the pay is a not-to-be-sneered-at $137,145, plus state benefits.
A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a joint campaign by Las Vegas police and federal investigators against suspected pimps.
WASHINGTON — Las Vegas attorney Jennifer Dorsey fielded her first official questions on Wednesday in a bid to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a federal judge in Nevada.
Clark County commissioners are considering a proposal to increase the county’s property tax to generate as much as $45 million more in annual revenue to support University Medical Center.
Leaders from the largest nonprofits in the Las Vegas area convened Wednesday morning to find ways to better deliver their message to the community.
WASHINGTON — Nellis Air Force Base may be rocked by the sequester, but planning continues for upgrades to base housing and projects to support the arriving F-35 fighter jets.
Dipak Desai is once more faking the extent of his strokes and there is no need to delay his criminal trial to examine questions about his competency, prosecutors told the Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Richard Suen spent Wednesday afternoon on the witness stand recounting more aspects of his consulting work for Las Vegas Sands Corp. as the company’s lawyers again tried to highlight more perceived changes in his story.
Bally Technologies Inc., helped by record-setting revenues, on Wednesday reported an increase in profit for the third quarter.
Las Vegas Valley smog levels now rank as the 16th worst in the nation, according to the American Lung Association’s annual “State of the Air” report released Wednesday.
If a property tax bill approved Monday in the Assembly becomes law, then the Clark County School District could secure $100 million for vocational education over the next 10 years.
UNLV is looking at an estimate of $60,000 to $100,000 to repair water damages in a dormitory complex resulting from a fire earlier this month.
Airline punctuality showed no sign of improvement Wednesday at McCarran International Airport.
ATLANTIC CITY — As chief regulator for New Jersey’s struggling casino industry, Matthew Levinson has an interesting balancing act.
A homeless man was killed Tuesday night in an apparent homicide, Henderson police said.
A University of California, Berkeley law student will stand trial for the October beheading of an exotic bird named Turk on the Strip.
The man who died in an accident involving a medical oxygen tank that possibly caught fire while he was smoking has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Boyd Gaming Corp. posted a first-quarter loss Wednesday, reversing a profit in the year-ago period, as the gaming company added new casinos and incurred other one-time costs related to selling noncore assets to strengthen its balance sheet.
Nevada Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced their Education Priority Initiative to tax gold and silver mining to fund education, which they said will serve as a competing measure to the flawed teacher-backed margins tax that will be on the ballot in 2014.
A mother and her four young children narrowly escaped a fire that ravaged their single-story home Tuesday night.