Slot machine maker Multimedia Games Inc. was for sale in 2010 and couldn’t attract a buyer. Today, it’s the hottest commodity for the gaming industry investment community.
Claire Vaye Watkins is a desert girl, deep down inside. She’s a product of the emptiness out here, where you can drive for an hour and not encounter another soul.
Recognized for its packaging that features cartoon bulls and turkeys, Jojo’s Jerky is truly a homespun tale.
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“Contract workers are the business equivalent of stepchildren who go from one parent’s home to the other,” comments Misti Cain, founder of the boutique marketing agency Red Cello Marketing in Carlsbad, Calif. She worked with them for seven years and is one now.
Immigration is a major topic of discussion for businesses owners, executives and their attorneys these days as lawmakers in Washington debate the merits of a sweeping plan to rewrite the nation’s laws.
In the last six months, 206 condos going for as much as $400,000 each closed after fewer than 60 days on the market, said Bruce Hiatt, broker-owner of Luxury Realty Group in Las Vegas. That pace is unheard of at a price point and home type that typically averages six to 12 months on the market, Hiatt said.
The famed Lincoln Highway passes through 13 states, not as reported in Sunday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Fashion Show mall can’t keep up with demand from retailers.
Relinquishing power isn’t easy, especially for Clark County commissioners. But after 10 years of resistance, the current board has come around and agreed to delegate most of the power of governing University Medical Center of Southern Nevada to an appointed hospital board.
Unable to find a job in Las Vegas, former union organizer Michael T. Moore stumbled into his best gig yet, playing heavy metal guitar riffs on the Strip for cash.
Last week, in seven cities across the country — New York, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City and Flint, Mich. — rallies were held demanding that the minimum wage for fast-food workers be super-sized to $15 per hour. Many workers walked off the job to show support for doubling the current minimum wage. The idea in theory is that these employees deserve a living wage.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Rafael Montero (3-3); Redbirds, Michael Wacha (5-3)
Mountain Ridge suffered a 15-0 defeat to Eastlake of Chula Vista, Calif., on Sunday at the Little League Baseball West Regional in San Bernardino, Calif.
Marina Alvarez holds her 14-month-old son Esteban and kisses the chunky toddler on the cheek as she talks with her neighbor Thomas Locke in the front yard of her northeast Las Vegas home.
State Sen. Mark Manendo might not be able to talk to the animals but he has made their cause his own in the Nevada Legislature.
A fire in a mobile home on Sunday caused $20,000 worth of damage and partially spread to a neighboring home.
He called it “R&B 101,” and he boiled it down to a single utterance voiced with syllables elongated, testing the elasticity of the word like a boulder dropped onto a trampoline.
Interstate 15 is shut down while Las Vegas Police investigate a high-speed chase that ended near Sahara Avenue.
The two-lane route, U.S. Highway 50, has been dubbed America’s Loneliest. But its other, older name drew Kolnes from his native Norway to the open road.
Highway 50 is part of the Lincoln Highway, America’s first paved transcontinental path, and it has been drawing motorists for 100 years. The celebration of its centennial has attracted sightseers and history buffs from around the globe.
Japan has launched the world’s first talking humanoid robot “astronaut” toward the International Space Station.
Nina DiGregorio started out as a classically trained musician but wanted more out of her career.
Iran’s new president on Sunday called on the West to abandon the “language of sanctions” in dealing with the Islamic Republic over its contentious nuclear program, hoping to ease the economic pressures grinding its people.
With more than 20 comfy examination rooms and a pharmacy stocked with both prescription and over-the-counter medications, UNLV’s Student Health Center is the nicest place on campus that students never want to visit.
A person familiar with deliberations tells The Associated Press that Major League Baseball has informed the New York Yankees that Alex Rodriguez will be suspended Monday but can play while he appeals the penalty.
Peter Capaldi is going from spin doctor to “Doctor Who.” The BBC announced Sunday that the Scottish actor, best known as venom-spitting political fixer Malcolm Tucker in the sitcom “The Thick of It” and its film spin-off, “In the Loop,” is the new star of “Doctor Who,” the famed science fiction series soon to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2, shuts down 215 in northwest Las Vegas
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin