The Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce has found a new home.
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said Friday.
Demolition work continued Friday at the Sahara where workers began dismantling the former NASCAR Cafe.
Las Vegas Valley mail carriers will pick up donations of food on Saturday.
CLEVELAND — A DNA test confirmed another dark twist in the story of three women imprisoned in a house for about a decade: Kidnapping and rape suspect Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from the house along with the women, a prosecutor said Friday.
Downtown redeveloper Tony Hsieh is fired up — a man on a mission — as he pours $350 million into the run-down epicenter of early Las Vegas.
Four University of Nevada, Las Vegas student teams were among 12 state finalists that competed last month in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition. One UNLV team advanced to compete against top teams from other states.
Clark County School Districts students have a new place to go for health care, as the Casey Jones Health Center is open at 5630 Coley Ave., near Wynn Elementary School.
Shareholders of slot machine manufacturer WMS Industries approved the company’s $1.5 billion buyout by lottery provider Scientific Games.
Greek philosopher Aristotle may have been about half right when he observed that we are deeply flawed beings.
WACO, Texas — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.
Shares of Molycorp, the rare-earth miner operating near the Southern Nevada boundary with California, were one the leading gainers Friday on Wall Street.
Josh Knoller, a young professional in New York City, spent years refusing his mother’s “Friend Request” on Facebook before, eventually, “caving in.” Today they have an agreement: she’ll try not to make embarrassing comments, and he can delete them if she does.
Casino operator Affinity Gaming said Friday its overall revenues declined less than 1 percent in the quarter that ended March 31.
AUSTIN, Texas — Whole Foods Market Inc. said that labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version were reversed at some of its cold food bars in the Northeast.
After some exhilarating, genre-melting moments in director Baz Luhrmann’s wildly anachronistic take on “The Great Gatsby,” things settle down and more closely resemble F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of love and loss amid the opulence of the roaring ’20s.
Three Marine Corps officers at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune have been relieved of their command nearly two months after a training accident that killed seven Marines in Nevada.
Las Vegas resident Daniel Healey made history last weekend, becoming the first poker player to win a legal, real-money online tournament in the U.S.
O.J. Simpson will return next week to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading an armed sports memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a new trial on the grounds that his lawyer botched his case.
The Black Bear Diner almost made me start lecturing about portion sizes.
CHUGWATER, Wyo. — It all began when a man with black shoe polish smeared all over his face exited Interstate 25 and barreled into town one evening last winter.
Bubbles & Brunch has returned to The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Served from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, it’s $40, which includes a glass of Champagne, mimosa or bloody mary, caramel-pecan monkey bread, two small plates, an entree and a dessert platter. Entrees include such choices as blue crab Benedict with Creole Hollandaise, chicken and waffles and stuffed french toast. …
So Don Rickles was sidelined by food poisoning a few weeks ago, but Tony Bennett knocked it out of the park last weekend. Next up in the Octogenarian Classics series: Jerry Lewis.
If summer is endless for the Beach Boys, how do you separate one from the other?
The Nuge must be pissed — and not just at Obama, vegetarians, liberals, pacifists, gun control advocates, tax collectors, etc.
Amid the overstuffed emo ranks of the early aughts, Yellowcard stood out for two reasons: 1) even in that ever-earnest scene, the band radiated sincerity to such an extent that its members practically tore their hearts from their chests and FedExed them to their equally eager fan base, and 2) there was a dude in the group who played violin.
