For some, enjoying parties with friends and co-workers is the best part of the yuletide season. For other (ahem) more reluctant socializers, attending holiday parties is the psychic equivalent of walking through a minefield decorated with colored lights and pretty tinsel while a painfully jolly choir sings in the background.
Wildlife officials say that after losing sight of a pod of whales that was stranded in the Everglades, they are ceasing rescue efforts.
The Down Syndrome Organization of Southern Nevada held its 25th annual Festival of Trees & Lights gala at Paris Las Vegas.
The three Colorado River raft tours offered by Black Canyon River Adventures annually provide thousands of river runners with splendid scenery, glimpses of the past, views of wildlife and access to hot springs, waterfalls and other features.
Las Vegas Fire and Rescue officials are investigating a fire in a vacant house at 321 Westeria Avenue Saturday night.
McMullan’s Irish Pub, 4650 W. Tropicana Ave., is named after Brian McMullan and his family. Thomas McMullan, Brian’s grandfather, opened the family’s first pub in 1908 in Glenarm, Ireland. Brian moved to Las Vegas in 1997 and opened McMullan’s in 2002.
They don’t have all the modern safety features — shoulder belts, high head rests or third brake lights. And great gas mileage? Forget about it. What they do have is the ability to take one back to a different time. A car show is planned as part of the 13th annual Lakes Festival of Lights, set for noon to dusk Dec. 14 at the intersection of Lake East and Lake Sahara drives.
The Las Vegas Great Santa Run shattered its previous record Saturday, and the event founder cited numerous factors.
It’s Nevada’s longest historical mystery. Is the cannon that explorer John C. Fremont dumped in the Sierra Nevada in 1844 still lost in the West Walker River, or is it sitting on an exhibit floor at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City?
Families looking to get into the holiday spirit under a budget can add one more free option to their lists: Sam’s Town plans to transform Mystic Falls Park into an indoor winter wonderland.
A Kentucky woman whose van is plastered with political signs and trinkets has won a costly fight to have a $56 traffic ticket tossed in New Jersey.
A New Hampshire teenager who disappeared nearly two months ago mailed her mother a letter several weeks after she was last seen, law enforcement officials said Friday.
One fisherman uses a bike to deliver hundreds of pounds of salmon to local markets. A mom who regularly shuttles her two kids around town once tried to haul a twin mattress home. And some companies are using the bikes to deliver beer kegs or pick up recycling.
Bishop Gorman’s football team captured its fifth consecutive Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association state title Saturday with a 48-14 rout of Reed in the Division I title game at Sam Boyd Stadium.
It took more than 20 minutes for the Arbor View boys basketball team to take the lead Saturday.
Bishop Gorman’s defense took it on the chin in the season opener against Mountain Pointe (Ariz.), giving up 319 rushing yards.
Long before Clay O’Brien Cooper won seven team roping heeler world titles — and narrowly missed winning a record-tying eighth last year at age 51 — the Gardnerville resident enjoyed a colorful career as a child actor.
Bobby Mote is seeking a fifth world title in bareback riding, but faces stiff competition from Kaycee Feild and Will Lowe.
With progress and growth come new challenges.
Imagine the Republican National Convention coming to the Strip in July 2016, and the first image that comes to my mind is a sea of pale skin sizzling poolside. Whoever has the sunscreen concession is sure to make a killing.
Las Vegas police fatally shot a heavily armed man early Saturday morning after fielding a pair of disconnected 911 calls by family members whose voices could be heard in the background saying their son was suicidal and wanted to commit a “mass shooting” to provoke police.
