Through today, Virtuoso Travel Week has taken over the Bellagio’s conference center, including the chapel and space at Aria and Vdara. With about 4,200 attendees from 90 countries, it’s the largest annual conference the hotel hosts and has been held at the Bellagio for 13 years.
Several people received a rude awakening Friday morning when an SUV slammed into the front of two houses in North Las Vegas.
MOSCOW — Pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva condemned homosexuality Thursday after criticizing competitors who painted their fingernails in rainbow colors to support gays and lesbians in the face of a new anti-gay law in Russia.
High-rolling businessman Ramon DeSage pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of evading more than $31 million in taxes.
Whether you love to sit on the beach or collect antiques, drawing from your personal passions can help you find the perfect colors to enhance your space.
Football season is here and whether you’re a diehard fan or just a fan of all the Sunday parties, chances are you’re going to attend or host a get together centered around the country’s favorite sport sometime soon.
With kids across the country heading back to school, a common question at family dinner tables will be: “What did you learn today?”
As millions of young people start the long, expensive process to embark on, or continue, their college journey, many parents are shaking their head about their child’s personal finance skills, or lack thereof. If your child has issues managing their (or your) personal finances, now is the time to start considering your options.
Approximately 42 million Americans provide unpaid care to an ill or disabled adult and new research shows the stress associated with this responsibility can have a negative effect on a person’s health.
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WASHINGTON — Newly declassified government documents made public Thursday are shedding some of the official mystery surrounding Nevada’s role in developing spy planes of the Cold War.
Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect in a shooting that wounded two bystanders on Fremont Street in June.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Rafael Montero (5-3); Zephyrs, Sam Dyson (1-2)
Chaparral and Western, two of the city’s oldest and most economically challenged schools, received sizable donations from the same unnamed benefactor during the offseason. The blank checks allowed football coaches Bill Froman and Donnie Davis to modernize their football programs from top to bottom and provided a much-needed shot in the arm.
The problem with special-interest politics is, eventually, special interests collide. Take Clark County’s horse roping ordinance. The animal welfare crowd, as emotional, invested and unrelenting as any political group you’ll find, got it approved.
Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, is a pragmatic, policy-oriented lawmaker who did a fairly good job helming the Assembly her first time out this year.
As President Barack Obama condemned the violence in Egypt and the death toll mounted to more than 600 Thursday, Egyptian immigrants in Las Vegas in turn condemned Obama, urging the president to immediately withdraw $1.3 billion in annual aid from the military now accused of shooting many of the dead.
On the heels of the 28,000-acre Carpenter 1 wildfire, an illegal campfire flared up on a Mount Charleston hiking trail Monday. Fire crews on foot and a water helicopter took about three hours to contain the flames a half a mile up the Mary Jane Falls trail, the U.S. Forest Service said.
The Arlington Million on Saturday holds a special place in American racing history. It was the world’s first million-dollar horse race and has had so many rich highlights, including a nose win by John Henry over The Bart in the first running in 1981.
Safety Frank Crawford played football in the Southeastern Conference, even starting three games two years ago for Mississippi, and is determined to go out strong at UNLV.
Left wing Adam Huxley will return to the Wranglers this season as a player-assistant coach. An enforcer who has spent four of his nine ECHL seasons with Las Vegas, Huxley has the franchise record for most penalty minutes in a season (294 in 2004-05) and career (709).
UNLV was picked to finish third Thursday in the Mountain West women’s soccer preseason poll. San Diego State was predicted to repeat as league champions.
Aside from his strikeout of fellow Las Vegas native Bryce Harper, Brewers relief pitcher Brandon Kintzler said he wasn’t focused during Milwaukee’s July 4 loss to Washington during which he gave up a decisive three-run homer to Wilson Ramos.
With the Ultimate Fighting Championship set to host one of its most important cards of the year in Boston on Saturday, there was one name that was almost assuredly going to be part of the event.
CARSON CITY — A First Amendment battle is underway to get Nevada prison inmates access to publications that are now off-limits based on what the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada contends is an unconstitutional Corrections Department policy.
One person suffered minor burns during a Henderson house fire Thursday afternoon. Firefighters went to the house on Danalda Court, near Warm Springs Road and Valle Verde Drive, about 4:30 p.m. Crews had the flame under control in about 15 minutes, fire officials said.