With Christmas just 10 days away, most people are still searching for that perfect gift or planning a lavish holiday party with family and friends. Some people are even looking for a last-minute getaway.
Two years ago, north end of Water Street was being remodeled and some businesses were worried about the effect of the construction on sales. At least one, Motor City Coney Island, didn’t survive.
A big, national home builder has made a sizable land purchase in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
The FBI says it has helped to disrupt or prevent nearly 150 shootings and violent attacks this year, in part by steering potential gunmen toward mental health professionals.
Stuard Barlow Johnson, a former corrections officer at the now-closed North Las Vegas Detention Center, pleaded guilty Monday to a federal misdemeanor charge in a five-year-old case of excessive force.
UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck shared the glory when handing out awards at the football team banquet Sunday night at the South Point Hotel.
A Canadian teen sounds an awful lot like the King of Rock and Roll. But how’s the hair?
The Metropolitan Police Department’s Fiscal Affairs Committee approved on Monday two legal settlements totalling $125,000 to residents who were injured in separate incidents involving officers.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a dispute over the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Lawyers for the late Las Vegas businessman David Jin, who invested $30 million to build the bridge before he died, challenged the Hualapai tribe on several points.
Finished the shopping? Break out the Bushmills, Jameson, Black Bush and Paddys and party along to “Christmas with The Celts.” (Haven’t started yet? Seems it could wait another day.)
Former UNLV basketball player Savon Goodman pleaded guilty via a written agreement on Monday to charges he stole $500, a pair of shoes and several video games from an acquaintance in May.
Family members rescued after spending about 48 hours in the frigid wilderness of northern Nevada last week say they don’t think they would’ve lasted two more days out in the cold. NBC footed the bill for a large group to secure an exclusive interview.
A federal judge says the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records violates the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches.
Vincent Faraci, a mob-connected player in the racketeering days of the old Crazy Horse Too strip club, was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison on a tax conviction.
SPARKS — After spending more than 50 years in the hands of the same family in Sparks, the sale of John Ascuaga’s Nugget Casino Resort has become official.
A little girl has been reunited with her favorite toy in time for Christmas thanks to an intrepid stranger and the power of social media.
Outside the view of paying customers, people accused of shoplifting at Macy’s huge flagship store are escorted by security guards to cells in “Room 140,” where they can be held for hours, asked to sign an admission of guilt and pay hundreds in fines, sometimes without any conclusive proof they stole anything.
This afternoon, old friends Tony Sacca and Denise Clemente plan to sing “Let It Snow” at Sacca’s annual “Merry Christmas Las Vegas” show, in which they have both performed most of the past 27 years.
In the weeks before our cross-country move to a small condominium in the Boston area, our house became bulimic.
MGM Resorts International said Monday it was refinancing $500 million of the company’s debt which is coming due in February.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s investigative bureau has found Wynn Resorts suitable to open a resort casino in Everett.
Assemblywoman Marilyn Dondero Loop, D-Las Vegas, announced Monday she’s running for an open state Senate seat.
On Dec. 3 and 4, the Lied Library at UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, went to the dogs and everyone seemed to love it.
The bogus sign language interpreter at last week’s Nelson Mandela memorial service was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death, family and friends of the interpreter told The Associated Press Monday.
The abrupt and mysterious closure of KE Medical Group — an action that left 16,000 patients in a lurch, many who’ve been unable to get prescriptions refilled, treatments completed, appointments made, records transferred — has become even more mysterious.
Opening ChillSpot, a frozen dessert shop in downtown’s Container Park, is a good news/bad news proposition, co-owner Joe Vergara realized. “In business, if you don’t take a risk there is no reward. That’s not just in life but business in general.”
Read about news and events happening in the Summerlin/Summerlin South area.
Surrounded by mostly franchise businesses, Japan Creek Market, 9310 S. Eastern Ave., is nearly transparent at its location. Despite that, it offers what the other places do not: a variety of cultural foods.
The Food and Drug Administration says there is no evidence that antibacterial chemicals used in liquid soaps and washes help prevent the spread of germs, and there is some evidence they may pose health risks.