The Senate last week advanced the most far-reaching changes to immigration law in more than 25 years, passing a bill that would grant millions of residents in the country illegally the chance to achieve U.S. citizenship.
HLN network chief executive Scot Safon resisted any impulse to call his counterpart at CNN, Jeff Zucker, to say “What are you doing to me?” when he learned that CNN scheduled a nightly hour on the George Zimmerman murder trial for the same time HLN was airing one.
When you have a drug problem, an important first step toward recovery is to stop living in denial.
An hour or so after Las Vegas Sands Corp. attorneys started outlining their case in the massive Venetian construction trial a decade ago, a surprise adviser took a seat next to trial technician Brian Clark: company Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson.
The Hualapai Mountains, just 14 miles from the desert city of Kingman, Ariz., provide opportunities for year-round recreation.
Inbee Park won the U.S. Women’s Open on Sunday to make history with titles in the year’s first three majors.
There are no sure things in this city – with one exception: Allegiant Air.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Sunday denied a last-ditch request from the sponsors of California’s now-overturned gay marriage ban to halt the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses in the nation’s most populous state.
The Las Vegas Springs Preserve’s Summer Adventure Camps offer a nature-oriented twist on summer day camps. The camps run in weeklong sessions throughout the summer.
There are two paths you can go by, as Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant so famously sang. Of course, he was lyricizing about a stairway to heaven and not a roadway from Las Vegas to Ely.
“It’s a thrill to see the birth of an artist,” says Rene Angelil.
When visiting a new city and true local living reveals itself, I find it nothing short of refreshing. But when it happens in a city I’ll call home come September, it’s more like forecasting.
Now that UNLV has dumped its longtime, deep-pocketed stadium partner and has rebooted the push to build a sports-and-entertainment venue on campus, it’s time for university officials to romance a new cast of players.
Namely, Las Vegas’ hotel-casinos.
Earlier this year, members of the Nevada Assembly took a pass on a controversy involving Assembly freshman Andrew Martin, D-Las Vegas, over questions about whether he actually lived in his district.
Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act allows community rehabilitation programs such as Opportunity Village to pay individuals with severe disabilities less than the minimum wage if their disability impedes their productivity. Section 14(c) is administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, which certifies and manages the program. Nearly 500,000 people with severe disabilities receive special minimum wages nationally, including my daughter.
Triple-digit heat enveloping the Las Vegas Valley appeared to claim its first victim Saturday. A man in his 80s didn’t have air conditioning in his house and went into cardiac arrest, Las Vegas Fire Department spokesman Tim Szymanski said.
After a quarter century of talk and planning, California is moving ahead with a vehicle inspection station on Interstate 15 just south of Primm.
Kurt Duchac has been growing his own medical marijuana for about three years. He turns to his small garden of plants daily to heal the chronic pain in his back brought on by working decades as an auto mechanic.
Laughlin is the sort of place that attracts guys like Chuck Gilmore. The 71-year-old retired high school business teacher bought a vacation home here 23 years ago and spends his days buzzing around the Colorado River on personal watercraft.
If you tune into today’s Confederations Cup final on ESPN — and there’s a chance you might, with the basketball and hockey seasons finally having ended, the top seeds at Wimbledon getting bounced by the 116th seeds, and these interleague baseball games having become tedious — you will notice that one of the soccer teams is wearing jerseys with funky nicknames on back.
School is out and summer break is in full swing, but with temperatures expected to hit 117 degrees this week— and possibly exceed it— it’s doubtful many kids will be playing outside.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force could not have been more right when it issued this statement after last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas: “Learning with people from different backgrounds and perspectives benefits all students, our workforce and our nation.”
National Employee Freedom Week wrapped up Saturday. What just a year ago was a modest local effort has extended nationwide, thanks to the Nevada Policy Research Institute.
At the intersection of immigration, tax, economic development and education policy is Nevada’s most important issue: English Language Learning in the Clark County School District.
The Great Recession provided many enduring lessons for local governments. Foremost among them: Long-term contracts that provide guaranteed annual pay raises to employees are a bad deal for taxpayers.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has always benefitted by comparisons to his predecessor.
There’s an unwritten rule that only kids younger than 12 seem to follow: Immediately after purchasing ice cream, you must hold onto it tight and run as fast as you can.
Guests saw the Las Vegas Natural History Museum in a whole new light during the second annual Sundown in Downtown on June 21.