Building anything from a carport to a shopping center is getting easier in Las Vegas.
Ken Lind, 68, won the Seniors Championship of the World Series of Poker early Monday at the Rio Convention Center.
The UNR football team will have a camp for upcoming high school juniors and seniors at 6 p.m. Friday at Bishop Gorman High School. Check-in begins at 5 p.m.
North Las Vegas just got a lifeline from the Legislature, a bailout for fiscal woes caused by the recession, fat employee contracts and foolish capital expenditures. Now the City Council is poised to thank the state for that relief by gambling on a misguided, potentially unconstitutional housing rescue plan that exposes the city’s taxpayers to yet more risk.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
The Las Vegas Philharmonic revives, and expands on, a holiday tradition this Independence Day with its first Fourth of July concert in three years, adding new elements to the celebration at downtown’s Smith Center and the adjacent Symphony Park.
WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, D.J. Mitchell (3-3); Sky Sox, Jeff Manship (3-6)
One of two state agencies that launched an investigation of Child Haven after five siblings walked out of the emergency shelter last week has concluded that the facility followed protocol in the incident, which led to a Las Vegas police search for the runaways.
ENN Mojave Energy representatives talked big, selling Clark County officials on the China-based company’s ability to deliver the goods on plans to build a solar energy plant on 9,000 acres of county-owned land near Laughlin.
At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge’s ruling later this month in New York could help end the practice for good.
With a film tax incentive now on the books, the Nevada film industry may not only grow but thrive.
Bishop Gorman High School graduate and former Cornhusker quarterback David Humm was awarded an honorary Nebraska Blackshirt, usually reserved for only the best defensive players, from the Husker Greats Foundation.
NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years.
It was a quiet part of the Father’s Day Mass as about 300 people stood up in preparation for communion. A parishioner, known by many at the church as Ricky Jennings, entered through the glass doors in back, holding his wife Cheryl’s hand.
A contrite Chad Johnson apologized Monday for disrespecting a judge when the former NFL star slapped his attorney on the backside in court last week, and his immediate release from jail was ordered.
Clearly, MGM Resorts International’s planned $2.5 billion development on Macau’s Cotai Strip has Wall Street excited.
You are not even prepared to cope with this crazy story. A rich guy recently bought a $250,000 bottle of champagne in a Vegas nightclub on one condition:
If you’ve ever wanted to use affordable real estate as a recruiting hook, a new study gives you fresh fodder.
INDIANAPOLIS — A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 after she confessed to her part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher has been released from an Indiana prison after spending a quarter century behind bars.
For the first time in seven years, most U.S. homebuilders are optimistic about home sales, a sign that construction could drive stronger economic growth in coming months.
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — Deep differences over Syria’s fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s regime.
He was angry with the church officials, and it wasn’t the first time.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden is defending his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian and is attacking U.S. officials for calling him a traitor.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gross revenue from table games at Pennsylvania’s 11 casinos rose sharply last month.
Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.
Pinnacle Entertainment put its downtown St. Louis casino and a western Louisiana hotel-casino development on the market Monday to eliminate any federal antitrust issues surrounding the company’s $2.8 billion buyout of Ameristar Casinos.
The Nevada State Development Corp. is asking Congress to bring back a popular small-business loan refinance program that expired shortly before the 2012 presidential election.
Police arrested a man in connection with a early Monday morning stabbing in Downtown Las Vegas.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in mysterious lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2, shuts down 215 in northwest Las Vegas
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people
Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school