Book review: “Year of the Jungle” by Suzanne Collins
Tony Romo, after the finest performance of his career, was destined to lose. “You were almost waiting for it to happen,” South Point oddsmaker Jimmy Vaccaro said, “and it happened.”
Creating interest in the state controller’s race is as difficult as attracting crowds to a tiddlywinks tournament, but a qualified auditor is necessary to ensure the state is spending money appropriately.
The tech startup Moveline, which recently moved from New York City to downtown Las Vegas, uses video to help customers find home movers. Moveline customers upload a video tour of their home, or give a live tour to a company representative using video chat.
A 9-year-old Minneapolis boy was able to get through security and onto a plane at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport without a ticket, an airport spokesman said Sunday.
Talk about bad timing. Southern Nevada leaders have worked for years to establish fossil-rich Tule Springs as a national monument. Finally, on Thursday, they appeared before a House subcommittee in support of a bipartisan bill to award the much-deserved designation.
Maybe state legislators should bill the Clark County Commission $25,000. Commissioners rejected the tax proposal the lawmakers put together late in the legislative session for a tax increase to hire more cops.
One person is in critical condition after a house fire Sunday night in North Las Vegas.
A woman who died after a car crash on Interstate 15 Sunday morning has been identified.
Caché opened a 2,800-square-foot flagship at the Fashion Show mall near Neiman Marcus. The boutique carries a mix of ready-to-wear and accessories.
Tennis great Billie Jean King celebrated her 70th birthday on Saturday at Caesars Palace with Elton John, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf among the 200 revelers.
Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how key substances are transported within cells, a process involved in such important activities as brain cell communication and the release of insulin.
Childhood Mormonism is the tie that binds all three of the Vegas-bred pop bands that became international stars so far this century.
The Sandra Bullock-George Clooney space drama “Gravity” rocketed to the top of the box office and into industry record books during its opening weekend.
If you have heard of a unique community 8 miles west of St. George called Kayenta, raise your hand. No? I thought so. Las Vegans keep giving me blank looks when I bring up Kayenta.
Blocks from the projects that have drawn outsized attention, Ron Decar has quietly opened his contribution to Las Vegas downtown redevelopment.
Pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide and one of the main reasons Americans miss work. For example, 31 million Americans experience low-back pain at any given time, according to the American Chiropractic Association, with experts estimating that as many as 80 percent of Americans will experience a back problem at some point in their lives. When dealing with back pain, think outside the pill bottle and discover five drug-free ways to feel better now.
Follow the link for the boys and girls soccer coaches polls, as compiled by Tech coach Josh Jones.
It was Friday morning at Cox Pavilion, and USA Basketball women’s national team mini-camp practice was winding down — or so I thought — when Diana Taurasi walked out as I was walking in. Taurasi apparently had some sort of business to attend to in the tunnel linking Cox Pavilion to the Thomas & Mack Center.
Arbor View’s girls tennis team wasn’t exactly riding a hot streak into this season. The Aggies hadn’t made the postseason as a team since 2008 and were coming off a two-win season that was best forgotten.
Amid the chaos, Dave Rice remained calm. And that would surprise absolutely no one who knows or has observed the UNLV basketball coach the past two years.
Tourists stared and pointed, phones were fished out of pockets and purses and drivers laid on their horns as several dozen boats rolled along the Strip early Sunday evening.
Even after seven years as state controller, Kim Wallin hardly is someone who comes up in conversations around the dining room table. And Dan Schwartz? That’s a name even fewer people could identify.
Although most might think the gaming business is confined to the borders of Nevada and New Jersey, the commercial casino industry consists of 513 casinos in 23 states, with 34 percent of the total U.S. population visiting a casino last year.
Las Vegas resident and former state Sen. Bob Ryan thought he had a sweet retirement mapped out for himself and his family when he invested all his savings in complex financial instruments recommended by a trusted investment adviser.
The case of mistaken identities as entertainment has been around for, well, as long as entertainment has been around.