Bob Thomason retired last spring after 25 seasons as the University of the Pacific’s basketball coach. He finished with a 437-321 record and has the most victories in school history.
Piano man Billy Joel returns to the MGM Grand Garden arena on June 7. Tickets are $84.50, $149.50 and $199.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ticketmaster outlets.
Relive all those Reagan-era Yuletide memories and more with the “ ’80s Xmas” bash featuring Dale Bozzio’s Missing Persons, Gene Loves Jezebel and Bow Wow Wow along with locals the Psyatics, Pet Tigers and Midnight Clover.
Liberty quarterback Tyler Newman was dominant this season, passing for 3,988 yards and 42 touchdowns in leading the Patriots to a 10-4 record. For his efforts, the Review-Journal selected Newman as the state’s Player of the Year to highlight the all-state team.
In the hands of Emma Thompson, “Mary Poppins” author P.L. Travers is a spoonful of something, all right, but it sure ain’t sugar.
Hollywood Park will host its final day of racing on Sunday. The “Track of the Lakes and Flowers” in Inglewood, Calif., opened on June 10, 1938 and has a rich history.
Two ballet troupes stage ‘Nutcracker’: If there’s never enough “Nutcracker” to satisfying your holiday ballet cravings, take heart — because two local troupes contribute their interpretations of the fanciful Tchaikovsky classic this weekend.
NV Energy CEO Michael Yackira will retire in June. He will be replaced by Paul Caudill, former president of MidAmerican Solar. Caudill joins the electrical utility immediately.
“Vegas the way it used to be,” promises the team behind Casa di Amore, and they’re not kidding.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is extending for 45 days the comment period on a proposal to list a “distinct population” sage grouse as a threatened species.
Sheldon (Calif.) used red-hot shooting from the perimeter to take an early lead Thursday.
Antonio was released from CCDC in August and now attends Rancho High School as a senior. He said last week that he feels “out of place” back at school, but he shares something with a growing number of Clark County students. He’s homeless.
Patrons lamented the long lines but not much else this week as Las Vegas post offices handled more of an estimated 160 million pieces of mail over the holidays — and there’s still time to get some things there by Christmas.
It’s Tech Talk Time with John Dahlback and me, and we agree on one thing immediately. We usually love to play “Call of Duty” multiplayers but the new “Call of Duty: Ghosts” is meh.
UNLV became the 50th women’s basketball team in NCAA history to reach 700 victories with a 63-54 win over Clemson on Thursday in the Duel in the Desert at Cox Pavilion.
If you’re the kind of girl who party-rocks on Christmas, you’re in luck. Some clubs will be open. Here are the DJs you’ll find.
Meet Shana Bryn McCartney, a dancer in “Veronic: Voices.” She started dancing at 2½, and also was a competitive figure skater from age 8 through her sophomore year of high school.
A Salvation Army kettle was stolen in a snatch and grab in front of a northwest valley Smith’s grocery store Wednesday afternoon.
Fresno, Calif., is tucked away in the San Joaquin Valley and the local team plays most of its home games at around 10 p.m. Eastern time. Coach Tim DeRuyter thinks that’s why Davante Adams hasn’t received more recognition for putting up the nation’s best receiving numbers.
A male inmate convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 died at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City on Wednesday.
Clark County prosecutors slapped former Wengert Elementary School teacher Melvyn Sprowson with four new charges of unlawful use of a minor in production of pornography after authorities found images of a 16-year-old girl on her cell phone.
A gunman who complained he had a botched 2010 surgery left a suicide note outlining plans for his attack before targeting physicians at a Reno medical office that left one doctor dead and another critically wounded, police said Thursday.
A man lured two brothers, ages 5 and 8, from their yard in south Mississippi and took them to his camper trailer, where he sexually abused them and slashed the older boy’s throat.
Nevada comes in at No. 12 in a state-by-state ranking of worst drivers in a study by Car Insurance Comparison.
From drug testing to extensive background checks, the process to be a mall Santa is “very, very strict.”
Luring the National Finals Rodeo out of Las Vegas was going to take one sweet deal.
Nevada’s disgraceful mental health system is back in the news for the wrong reasons. The Sacramento Bee, which previously uncovered improper patient discharges and out-of-state transports from the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, reported more troubling findings this week: some patients were bused out of town despite facing criminal charges in Southern Nevada.