Maryland Parkway is one of those streets few people but the 9,000 drivers who use it everyday think about. But it also may be the most important north-south street in the valley, after the obvious exception of Las Vegas Boulevard.
If it’s not one thing, it’s another with the Obama administration.
Man wearing dress. Mystic space between heaven and Earth? Or cheap hotel with no ballroom?
As surely as the sun rises in the East, construction continues on two huge regional solar power projects.
There’s nothing more telling of a society’s priorities than condolences. Not just any condolences. Condolences that arrive during nontragic times.
WASHINGTON — The wall of framed photos with political heavyweights from Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to Barack Obama — reputedly one of the more impressive collections in town accumulated over 30 years — has been taken down.
The argument for Dodgers rookie outfielder Yasiel Puig making the National League All-Star team dates to Milwaukee in 2002, to a game that ended in controversy and a 7-7 tie.
Lukas Larson says some people practice flesh suspension for artistic expression. He sells many of the supplies for the activity.
Local food critic John Curtas is getting called out for his response after tweeting what was taken as a slur by Japanese. Referring to a youtube.com video that features yodeling Japanese singer Takeo Ischi, Curtas tweeted, “The best Jap-German collaboration since 1941.”
Creech Air Force Base drone crews operate unmanned aircraft in war zones from their Indian Springs location.
The U.S. Geological Survey plans to use less sophisticated drones to spy on Southern Nevada’s mule deer and bighorn sheep later this year.
On reviewjournal.com today, Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute and Robert Lang and William Brown of UNLV’s Brookings Mountain West address an important topic that generates precious little public debate: Federal funding of state and local government services.
Anderson Silva has toyed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight division for seven years. All of that playing finally caught up with him in the main event of UFC 162 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night.
Valedictorian Patrick Casa comes from a military family, and it was in keeping with a proud tradition that upon graduation from high school he was accepted to the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Crews battling the wildfire that consumed Carpenter Canyon on the west side of the Spring Mountains switched their focus to the small community of Kyle Canyon to the east on Saturday.
Who keeps more of Southern Nevada’s federal tax money — Washington, D.C., or Carson City? Turns out it’s a toss-up. So how do we fix the problem? With D.C., we need to get in the game. With Carson City, we need to change the game.
The Founding Fathers granted the federal government several enumerated powers and a few implied ones. The Supreme Court, in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius, decided to take that idea a few steps further and granted the federal government the authority to use its taxing power to compel the citizenry to do whatever it wants it to do, as long as it uses certain turns of phrase. But that is only a recent development, and sometimes the unrestrained exercise of raw power is not politically palatable.
At Tucson, Ariz., Mike Baxter went 3-for-4, including a two-run homer in the fifth inning, to lead Las Vegas’ 10-hit attack in a 5-2 win over the Padres.
Las Vegan Jesus Gutierrez continues to impress in the lightweight division.
Coronado High School graduate Kieran Eissler had two goals Saturday to help the South to a 28-24 lacrosse win over the North in the Under Armour All-America Classic in Towson, Md. Eissler has signed a national letter of intent to play at Johns Hopkins.
Green-thumbers Janet and Don Knight from Northern California became brown-thumbers when they started gardening in Las Vegas, but now they’re green-thumbers again. In fact, they are producing vegetables year-round to sell at the farmers market from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thursday at 333 S. Valley View Blvd.
Here are a few items in pop culture that caught our eye recently.
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