UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center needs renovations, and university officials are moving to get funding approved to bring it up to code, officials said Friday.
Max McAndrew sits under the watchful eye of Johnny Cash and his middle finger amid a wall full of vinyl records inside the green room at Vinyl, the Hard Rock Hotel’s 650-person music venue.
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In the early 1990s, women became aware that they could identify and secure “options.” That same spirit has moved into the retirement camp, where men are designing theirs by using no-nonsense job-hunting tactics.
In a city where business plans are synonymous with rapid growth, Chris Denzel is content to take one step at a time.
The 6,000 “zombie foreclosures” are just a subset of the estimated 40,481 vacant single-family homes in the Las Vegas Valley, said Marcus Conklin, associate director of the Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The company behind a controversial proposal to use eminent domain to seize mortgages has set its sights on North Las Vegas, where a majority of homeowners are eligible to reduce their loan payments through the program.
Interested in money? Well, there’s a conference for that.
Fueled by increases in consumer demand and competitive market prices, overdrafts in the United States made a strong comeback last year, a study by Moebs Services, a Lake Bluff, Ill., economic research firm, shows.
If Carlos Batiste has gauged the market correctly, many people would like to pick up a bag of jerk chicken-flavored popcorn on their way through McCarran International Airport.
Blake Shelton played “Boys ‘Round Here” with Luke Bryan, his co-host of the 48th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, as well as Sheryl Crow, the Pistol Annies and Brad Paisley, who ripped a mean guitar solo while walking through the crowd toward the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday.
Robbing the Kraft Nabisco Championship of another exciting finish, Inbee Park doubled her lead to six strokes over playing partner Lizette Salas on the par-4 opening hole and ran away with her second major title.
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Southern Nevada from 3 a.m. Monday to 11 p.m. Monday. A strong Pacific storm is expected to bring very gusty winds to the area through Monday evening. Also, there is a 30 percent chance of scattered showers.
Police say former adult film star Jenna Jameson has been arrested after a report that she attacked someone at an Orange County home.
Megachurch pastor and popular Christian author Rick Warren posted a message on Twitter on Sunday saying he was “overwhelmed” by the love and support offered after the apparent suicide of the youngest of his three children.
Some people have had it with TV. They’ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don’t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They’re tired of $100-plus monthly bills.
A few months ago, Doris Stoehr got the good news: The city of Las Vegas was finally going to install that crosswalk she’d been begging for.
The stately Virginia plantation home Stratford Hall is silent on a Sunday morning. Unless you are listening to the spirits of history.
STP Gas Booster 500, Martinsville Speedway; Martinsville, Va.
UNLV scored three runs in the eighth inning and three in the ninth, then held on to defeat host Fresno State 9-8 on Saturday in a Mountain West baseball game.
Gegard Mousasi didn’t have to exert a whole lot of extra energy to earn a unanimous decision victory over Ilir Latifi in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card in Stockholm on Saturday.
WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Collin McHugh (1-0); River Cats, Justin Thomas (0-1)
Despite not trailing in regulation during either of their first two ECHL playoff games, the Wranglers have nothing to show for it.
The Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority is planning a Prince Harry campaign and needs some paupers to play a prince.
They sing of thunder and driving rain, upon occasion, but the lenitive electro pop of Canadian boy-girl duo Purity Ring is decidedly more calming. See them at 9 p.m. Thursday at the Beauty Bar, 517 Fremont St. Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 day of show; call 702-598-1965.
A regular reader writes in to protest my assertion that America now has enough proven fossil fuel reserves to last for centuries, warning “Fracking technology isn’t sustainable.”
The Clark County School Board has abandoned a national search for a new superintendent before it could start. On Wednesday, the board voted 6-1 to end negotiations with search firm McPherson & Jacobson. The move was embarrassing and shortsighted, but not terribly surprising.