The all-important visitor industry could get a much-needed boost in the second half of this year with airlines booking larger jets on their flights into Las Vegas.
After nearly a decade of debate, a central California Indian casino project backed by Station Casinos moved a step closer last week toward actual development activities.
If you ask me, Kowalski from the 1971 movie “Vanishing Point” is the greatest race-car driver of all time. Kurt Busch of Las Vegas is second.
Imagine this: You’re standing at the corner of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard.
Doctors evaluating Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, reported improvement in her condition Monday, according to the State Department, but few details were being disclosed about her illness.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. said Monday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded its inquiry into allegations that the Las Vegas-based gaming company made an improper donation to the University of Macau Development Foundation.
The deadline has passed, but required registration papers keep trickling in for Nevadans who own off-road vehicles.
Al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence at practically all levels of the Pakistani government, according to an official government report published by a TV channel on Monday.
Trayvon Martin’s father testified Monday that he never denied it was his son’s voice screaming for help on a 911 call, contradicting police officers’ earlier testimony at George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial.
Hazardous conditions slowed firefighters’ attempts Monday afternoon to search for some 40 people still missing after a runaway oil tanker train exploded over the weekend in a Quebec town, killing at least five people and incinerating at least 30 buildings, officials said.
A convicted sex offender has lost his bid to overturn a maximum prison sentence handed down by a judge who ignored a plea deal that the defendant believed would net him probation.
Country music star Randy Travis was in critical condition Monday in a Texas hospital, a day after he was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy.
A shortage of helium has become an epidemic across the United States. The life of the party isn’t showing up and, when it does, it typically costs a lot of money.
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty Monday to stealing more than $300,000 in expensive jewelry, including Rolex and Tag Heuer watches, from people at golf courses in Nevada and other states.
CARSON CITY – Sen. Mark Hutchison, R-Las Vegas, said Monday he will run for lieutenant governor in 2014.
A group of gun control advocates on a national bus tour stopped in Las Vegas on Monday to rally for background check legislation.
One of the oldest sections of McCarran International Airport will be without a tenant starting Wednesday when US Airways completes a long-contemplated gate switch.
In the 100-plus-degree heat, construction workers recently set up fences to block off the pedestrian walkway at The District at Green Valley Ranch.
The Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort is postponing its inaugural “Rock the Canyon Rally” because of the Carpenter One fire.
The nation’s top special operations commander ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout to be purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public.
Find things to do in the Summerlin and Summerlin South areas.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday announced that the 150th anniversary license plates will be available at metropolitan Department of Motor Vehicles offices July 29.
Governor Rick Perry was a champion of fiercely conservative social activism long before the tea party was born. He oversaw the “Texas Miracle” job-creation boom and became the state’s most powerful governor since Reconstruction.
Las Vegas picks up a new, nonstop destination on Aug. 11: Flint, Mich.
An Amtrak spokeswoman said that there are no plans or even discussions to have the Las Vegas Railway Express attach luxury lounge cars to trains running between Houston and New Orleans.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An air taxi that crashed and burned at a small Alaska airport, killing all 10 people onboard, was believed to be carrying nine passengers from South Carolina to a fishing lodge, authorities said Monday.
After months on hold, the criminal case charging defense lawyer Brian Bloomfield and four others in a courthouse counseling scheme is back on track.
Las Vegas Fire and Rescue firefighters rescued a window washer who became stranded between the seventh and eighth floors of a downtown building Monday morning.
The Asiana jet that crashed at San Francisco International Airport left lower sections of its tail on a rocky seawall and in the bay, then scattered debris several hundred feet down the runway, the NTSB reported Monday in describing the plane’s deadly path.