With new ownership, the promise of a new arena in downtown Sacramento, new leadership in the basketball operation with general manager Pete D’Alessandro and coach Mike Malone, perhaps the days of the Sad Sac Kings are over.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas students Thursday climbed to No. 2 out of 19 teams in the Solar Decathlon, a Department of Energy-sponsored competition that challenges students to create energy-efficient homes.
Las Vegas High’s Tristan Gordon knows exactly what kind of football game he expects to see on Friday at Green Valley.
Cory Fisher made a 32-yard field goal with 57 seconds remaining in regulation, and Foothill held on for a 30-27 victory over host Basic on Thursday.
Even football fans who don’t wager seem to be curious about the most extreme of point spreads. The sky-high — or, mile-high — number for the Jacksonville Jaguars’ game at Denver on Sunday is attracting a variety of interested parties, including national media sources.
When Diego Magdaleno left trainers Pat Barry and Augie Sanchez in May and hired Joel Diaz to train him and Frank Espinoza to manage him, it figured his younger brother Jessie wouldn’t be far behind.
He has been up; he has been down. He has been a world champion; he has been disgraced for cheating.
Maryland gaming regulators ruled Thursday that three casino companies, including MGM Resorts International and Penn National Gaming, were suitable applicants to compete for a single gaming license that could place a multimillion-dollar casino complex near the nation’s capital.
Nevada officials and the Department of Energy convened talks Thursday over operations of the Nevada National Security Site, including a controversial plan to bury a potent form of nuclear waste at the installation.
Bus drivers are in such short supply for the Clark County School District that the School Board declared a “critical labor shortage” on Thursday.
Not even a quarter of Kelly Elementary School’s fifth-graders read at grade level in the 2010-11 school year. A year later, that more than tripled to 77 percent, according to state test results that spurred more questions than congratulations for the Clark County School District campus.
Here’s your DJ/club forecast for the coming week. It’s a promising week for high-quality performers.
“America’s Best DJ” Kaskade starts a new winter residency at XS on Friday — without wearing a mouse head, or throwing pies at fans’ faces, unlike other star DJs.
Christ Church Episcopal’s 42nd Annual Lobster Fair runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 19 at the church at 2000 S. Maryland Parkway. Lobsters purchased in advance are $16 live, $18 steamed; orders are due by Oct. 18. Lobsters purchased at the fair — pending availability — will be $18 live, $20 steamed. The fair also will include a bake sale, used-book sale, raffles and live and silent auctions, and clam chowder, Mexican food, sourdough bread and beer and wine will be offered. For details or presales, go to www.LobsterFair.com or call 702-684-7746. …
Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said Thursday that he suspects Sheriff Doug Gillespie colluded with an arbitrator and the police union to broker a contract agreement with raises before the arbitration hearings even took place.
Officials in the recession-racked city of North Las Vegas hope a preliminary shared services agreement announced with the city of Las Vegas Thursday will lead to permanently shared services at a dozen municipal agencies, a move that could save the city millions of dollars in annual staff and administrative costs.
A Mohave County Superior Court jury on Thursday convicted a northwest Arizona resident of the 2012 shooting death of his neighbor in Golden Valley.
When Danielle Greisen gave birth in July to a daughter at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, she had no idea another infant there had tuberculosis.
If you’re going to see Dane Cook this weekend, you probably know he lost both his parents a year apart, or that his half brother was sentenced to prison for embezzling millions from him.
Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts has died at 88.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
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