Clark County will close its Desert Rose Golf Course for more than a year starting Friday to make way for a $50 million flood control project.
Clark County residents could soon be forced to pay an extra 0.15 percent in sales taxes to boost law enforcement and an extra 3 cents per gallon of gas for build new roads.
Nevada Conservatory Theatre’s 2013-14 season covers considerable ground, from Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” to Bertold Brecht’s “Good Person of Szechuan,” from new comedies to longtime favorites such as “A Christmas Carol” and “Grease.”
The fourth annual Vegas Fringe Festival is back at Las Vegas Little Theatre with an eclectic selection of short plays that range from sketches written on a cellphone to a musical. Here are my favorites:
KINGMAN, Ariz. – The man who incurred the wrath of the Hualapai Indian tribe and many tourists by charging a toll to reach the Skywalk Grand Canyon West attraction over the Memorial Holiday weekend was arrested late Tuesday.
PIZZA LOUNGE, TIVOLI VILLAGE, 410 S. RAMPART BLVD.
Guy Fieri isn’t a native of Las Vegas (and no, he doesn’t play one on TV). He grew up in Ferndale, in Northern California, but considers the three years he spent at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the late ’80s as among the most important in his life.
Shooters are going to start paying more to use the Clark County Shooting Complex.
The safety of the Harmon Hotel tower at CityCenter arose again as a concern when a consultant hired by Tutor Perini Building Corp. reversed its position and now believes that recent testing damaged the never-finished building beyond repair.
It creeps in through the back door, the front window or in through the garage. It waits in the yard, the car and even the house.
In the 10 minutes before the Nevada Legislature adjourned at midnight Monday, Sen. Ruben Kihuen and Assemblyman James Healey, both D-Las Vegas, repeatedly sprinted down hallways in the Legislative Building, followed by a ragtag group of lobbyists and reporters, none of whom could match their speed.
Nurse anesthetist Ronald Lakeman once admitted that he followed the “unsafe” practice of double-dipping syringes into opened bottles of propofol at the clinic where the hepatitis C outbreak occurred, a physician with the Centers for Disease Control testified Tuesday.
As supreme courts often do, Nevada’s high court on Tuesday boiled down a hearing on the state shield law to a question: Is a reporter’s privilege to keep sources secret an absolute right or does it have limits?
The selection standards for choosing a company to provide drug testing services to the Clark County Department of Family Services was tossed out Tuesday by county commissioners after the flawed process raised concerns.
CARSON CITY – It really wasn’t very special at all.
A few months from now, government agents with drones will descend on Southern Nevada to spy on the locals. Luckily, mule deer and bighorn sheep don’t carry ACLU cards.
Las Vegas police responded to an officer-involved shooting about 2 p.m. near downtown Tuesday afternoon.
PARIS — France said Tuesday it has confirmed that the nerve gas sarin was used “multiple times and in a localized way” in Syria, including at least once by the regime. It was the most specific claim by any Western power about chemical weapons attacks in the 27-month-old conflict.
FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army psychiatrist charged with gunning down Fort Hood soldiers said Tuesday his defense would show that he was compelled to do so because deploying U.S. troops posed an imminent danger to Taliban fighters.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A judge accepted James Holmes’ long-awaited plea of not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday and ordered him to undergo a mental evaluation — an examination that could be a decisive factor in whether the Colorado theater shooting suspect is convicted and sentenced to die.
Note to tourists: “The Hangover” is just a movie. If you destroy your Las Vegas hotel suite, there will be consequences.
Las Vegan Robert Drysdale has signed a contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and will make his debut against Ednaldo Oliveira at UFC 163 on Aug. 3 in Rio de Janeiro.
WASHINGTON — Already heavily criticized for targeting conservative groups, the Internal Revenue Service absorbed another blow Tuesday as new details emerged about senior officials enjoying luxury hotel rooms, free drinks and free food at a $4.1 million training conference. It was one of many expensive gatherings the agency held for employees over a three-year period.
Gaming equipment supplier SHFL entertainment grew profits 22 percent in the second quarter thanks in part of sales of products to casinos in Australia and Asia.
Nearly 37,000 Nevadans who went through foreclosure during the recession will receive a check this month as part of a massive, national settlement.
Gov. Brian Sandoval again took out his stamp and vetoed four more bills, while signing 24 others, including one to prevent minors from using tanning equipment and another that prohibits horse tripping.
NORMAN, Okla. — The deadly tornado that struck near Oklahoma City late last week had a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles and was the second top-of-the-scale EF5 twister to hit the area in less than two weeks, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday.
NEW YORK — A group of about 100 high school students traveling from New York to Atlanta were thrown off an AirTran flight, along with their chaperones, after the pilot and crew lost patience with some kids who wouldn’t sit down and put away their cellphones.