The Spring Mountains are a spiritual home for the Paiute people, but you don’t have to be a Native American to feel the soul-soothing sense of the place.
“Priscilla Queen of the Desert” turned out to be a very bad idea with a good one still wrapped inside its dress. At least, Broadway fans should hope so.
The Freudian Mystique is culturally pervasive. People come to therapy hoping to find that dramatic flash of insight. That “ah-ha” moment when they can say “That’s it! That’s the reason! I bite my fingernails as a compensation for my mother’s ‘rejecting, withholding breast,’ at which I did not have a nurturing experience!”
The term “CIR” is the hot acronym these days. It stands for “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” When you see the word “comprehensive” in the title of any piece of legislation, put on your skeptic’s glasses.
Events of the past two weeks have shined a light on just how unwieldy and inoperable the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act already is, even though most of its provisions haven’t been implemented yet.
PHILADELPHIA — For Rashad Vaughn, Findlay Prep’s newest star, competing against the best high school basketball players in the country is a breeze.
After stripping food stamp funding, House Republicans last week passed a scaled-back farm bill that was praised by some conservatives but strongly criticized by advocates for the poor, other conservative activists and farm groups.
SAN DIEGO — Tim Lincecum pitched his first career no-hitter and the second in the majors in 11 days, a gem saved by a spectacular diving catch by right fielder Hunter Pence in the San Francisco Giants’ 9-0 win over the last-place San Diego Padres on Saturday night.
An 82-year-old woman died after her car hit a palm tree on Alta Drive near Rosemary Lane on Saturday.
At the chilly depths of the Cold War, the survival of Southern Nevada hinged on a hole in the ground in the southwest valley. There, in a bunker made from buried railroad ties, a hand-picked crew of local officials planned to ride out the fallout, then emerge to restore order to post-apocalypse Las Vegas.
All eyes were on Greg Merson as he made a graceful exit Saturday afternoon from the World Series of Poker. But not that long ago, no one was watching him.
The Empire put a hit on the Mafia and buried the farm. Two years after Caesars Entertainment Corp. perplexed Wall Street by acquiring social gaming operation Playtika, the casino giant has moved past rival Zynga Inc. to the top of the business model.
When he was a small fry growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs, Greg Hill remembers balancing atop his first racing bike, a candy-apple red Schwinn Apple Krate — the one with shock absorbers and a gear shift — and a mailbox. And then wobbling along, in the lowest of gears, until the next mailbox.
In the critically neglected 1996 action film “Executive Decision,” hero Kurt Russell finally confronts the terrorist leader who has taken over a 747 bound for Washington, D.C., and loaded with nerve gas. “Who are you?” the terrorist demands.
Red Rock Canyon: On Thursday, join a naturalist on an easy hike to observe some of Red Rock’s wild burros.
Summer and fall are brief but glorious seasons in Southern Utah’s high country, where snow blankets the forests nearly half of the year. Cedar Breaks National Monument, located atop a 10,600-foot plateau, draws more than a half-million visitors during the few months a year that it is open.
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In celebration of America’s birthday, the Las Vegas Philharmonic presented a new Independence Day event at Symphony Park at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
At Cashman Field, Alvarado allowed just one run on four hits in 6 2/3 innings as the 51s (49-46) earned a split of the four-game series against the Southern Division-leading Padres (53-45).
Badou Jack didn’t start his professional boxing career until 2009, but the 29-year-old super middleweight from Sweden quickly is making up for lost time.
LOUDON, N.H. — Kurt Busch has lost rides with top teams. He’s paid the price for losing his cool more times than anyone in NASCAR can count.
Today’s best bet: St. Louis Cardinals (-140) over CHICAGO CUBS
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What’s that massive building going up near Ikea in southwest Las Vegas?
Woman suing Las Vegas Strip resort after vehicle stolen from valet
Downtown Las Vegas pizzeria is opening a shop in the suburbs
Man indicted in death of mother
More affluent visitors finding their way to Vegas — and staying