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UNLV officials say they want a direct partnership with the major hotel-casinos of the Strip to build a new domed stadium on campus.
Leave it to Allegiant Travel Co. to figure out ways to shrink what’s included in the base package.
The Shade Tree offers more than 100,000 nights of shelter each year to women and children in need. With an overhead of more than $3 million annually, donations by both public and private parties are imperative.
Sequels are never as good as the original. Just ask Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson. Apparently, he wants to star in his own version of “The Hangover Part III.”
These women may mean business, but they also know how to have some fun.
Corralling clients and prospective clients in demanding environments may require you to compete with other attention-getters to assure a new or continued revenue stream. Meetings, telephone calls, a torrent of emails, bosses, supervisees and external customers likely come first. Become skilled at spotting lack of focus and returning it to projects.
Wall Street still isn’t sold on the efforts by Caesars Entertainment Corp. to get out from under more than $20 billion of long-term debt.
The Nevada Microenterprise Initiative in partnership with its parent nonprofit lender the Valley Economic Development Center Inc. have added $2 million to support their small-business loan program statewide.
Every Memorial Day we see heartfelt tributes to our troops and veterans. They’re worthy of year-round thanks, especially with so many current service members coming home from multiple combat tours.
Nevada lawmakers are rounding the final turn and heading down the backstretch of the final full week of the 2013 session.
A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper was hit by a car while investigating a separate crash early Sunday morning.
A 50-year-old motorcyclist was killed Saturday night after he lost control of his motorcycle near Jean.
Growing up in Southern California, one of Josh Satin’s heroes was former Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shawn Green, a veritable Jewish sports legend.
Bettie Page may have been “an iconic figure in pop culture,” in the words of Hugh Hefner, but she hit the height of her modeling career about six decades ago.
Groups on both sides of the gun control debate are mustering their forces for a legislative hearing Tuesday on a bill that would require background checks for private-sale weapons purchases.
Ten years after Chris Moneymaker parlayed a $39 investment in an online poker tournament into a $2.5 million payday as the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, the “Moneymaker Effect” continues to impact the poker world.
Kevin Harvick pulled away from Kasey Kahne on a restart with 11 laps left to win the Coca-Cola 600 for the second time in three seasons, a race stopped for nearly 30 minutes Sunday night when a TV camera support rope snapped.
A 22-year-old who lives with his parents is the new mayor of Ivory Coast’s largest city, at least according to the West African nation’s active community of self-described Internet geeks.
Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a “masculinizing” effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is “idiotic”
Protesters rallied in Nevada as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces.
“Fast & Furious 6” is revving past “The Hangover Part III” in the No. 1 position at the Memorial Day weekend box office. Universal Pictures’ sixth installment of its muscle car franchise featuring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker debuted with $98.5 million domestically from Friday to Sunday, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The tender, sensual lesbian romance “Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele” won the hearts of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, taking its top honor, the Palme d’Or.
The search intensified Sunday for a teenage boy believed to have been swept away by floodwaters as he tried to swim across a swollen creek near San Antonio, authorities said.
Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut on Sunday, tearing through an apartment and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese group’s leader pledged to lift President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria’s civil war.