If nothing else, the legal assault mounted against journalist Dana Gentry was notable for its audaciousness.
The recent announcement that higher education leaders have signed a major agreement calling for an expansion of the University of Nevada School of Medicine has generated considerable discussion and some controversy.
Howard Stutz’s Nov. 24 column (“Look out, Net bets, Adelson’s after you”) employed a medieval practice used to avoid confronting unpopular positions. When you can’t defend the message, attack the messenger.
Nevada’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly high at 9.3 percent. In Southern Nevada, the rate is 9.4 percent, with more than 92,000 people looking for work. Although the region clearly is through the worst of the economic downturn, with home values rising and taxable sales steadily increasing, its job market is still among the most discouraging in the country.
If violations of state ethics laws are never punished, what’s the point in having ethics laws? If violators can cut deals before an ethics investigation even starts, why have an Ethics Commission?
A police helicopter crashed into the roof of a crowded Glasgow pub, causing “numerous” casualties and leaving people trapped in the unstable building, officials said early Saturday.
Matt, Tony and special guest Dave Cokin break down the weekend’s top college and NFL football games from the Golden Nugget sports book.
With six Mountain West teams — and potentially more — eligible for six conference-affiliated bowl slots, UNLV would make itself more attractive to a bowl with a win over an aggressive San Diego State team that has won seven of its past eight games and has had plenty of previous success against the Rebels.
A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after essentially grazing the sun. Now, there is a sliver of hope that Comet ISON may have survived.
A Friday afternoon fire at a car dealership on South Torrey Pines Drive sent firefighters scrambling to the scene.
Ski season opened Friday at Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort. “It’s one of the largest openings we’ve had in the last few years,” said resort spokesman Maria Jose Norero. She said that numbers for Friday’s opening were four times the first day of the season last year.
Shoppers across the country crowded stores beginning Thanksgiving night as the holiday shopping season officially kicked off. Throughout the nation, acts of violence took place as people tried to score a good deal. This live blog will be updated throughout the day as news of the violence becomes available.
Videos posted online show the level of frenzy to which things escalated at some Walmart stores across the country as shoppers tried to get the best deals on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
The son of former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney helped save the day Thursday when he witnessed a car crash on his way home from Thanksgiving dinner.
The Southern Nevada congressman has taken up running again after surviving a health scare this summer. The 40-year-old with a family history of heart troubles had six-way bypass surgery in July after doctors discovered severe blockages in his arteries.
It’s a Friday night, and Robert Peraza is making his way through the crowd on the dance floor of Share Nightclub. He’s known as “The Condom Guy” in some circles.
Tasha Schwikert and Matt Sheahan each recently won a lucrative $75,000 scholarship from the Las Vegas Business Academy, a nonprofit organization founded by businessman Rino Armeni to graduate students pursuing business, hotel administration and law degrees who are “tuition challenged.”
Teaming American Sign Language with dance moves and body language, Holly Maniatty brings musical performances alive for those who can’t hear.
ATLANTIC CITY — In addition to the usual holiday traditions, gamblers found time to create 5,000 new Internet betting accounts on Thanksgiving.
The National Championship Air Races in Reno has launched a worldwide fundraising campaign to try to keep alive the 50-year-old event that’s been struggling with insurance costs since a deadly accident two years ago.
Organizers of the annual weeklong celebration of self-expression and eclectic art known as Burning Man and a Nevada county where it is held might be close to resolving their legal dispute over the festival, but they’ve angered a federal judge along the way.
While most Mississippi State fans were cheering their team to an Egg Bowl overtime win over rival Ole Miss, the school’s mascot was being treated for a compound fracture.
A Northern California toy company says it has removed its parody of a popular Beastie Boys song from a promotional video that went viral.
Home is especially meaningful on Thanksgiving, where we gather with family and friends to express our good fortune. Just having a home provides much to be thankful for, since far too many go without.
For the first time, my husband and I have a proper guest room. Even better, our new house has a designated “guest wing.”
The sun had already begun to set in a brilliant cerulean sky when I suddenly awoke from my reverie. I’d been sitting in my client’s luxurious contemporary great room musing about a corner space that needed something wonderful to complete the room’s overall design statement.
Don’t forget that one of the places you can visit to see a holiday lights display is Ethel M Chocolates Botanical Garden at 2 Cactus Garden Drive in Henderson near the intersection of East Sunset and Mountain Vista.
The new “geek wars” — between tech industry programmers on the one side and government spooks, fraudsters and hacktivists on the other — may leave people’s PCs and businesses’ computer systems encrypted to the teeth but no better protected from hordes of savvy code crackers.