President Barack Obama this month declared income inequality a “defining challenge of our time.” This week, he took another unilateral step to make the income gap even worse.
The nanny state never rests. It always finds ways to spend taxpayer money on projects that ignore reality while embracing wishful thinking.
A look back at a year that Justin Bieber would rather forget, a wedding of elephantine proportions and the arrival of Britney Spears.
Graves County (Ky.) wasn’t the most imposing team when it took the floor in the back gym at Las Vegas High on Thursday. But maybe the radio crew in the corner should have been a clue that the Eagles meant business.
You never know when you’ll need to bust out some UNLV trivia during a timeout. We’ve got you covered.
Early blasts of snow, ice and below-zero temperatures haven’t stopped a surprising number of Chicago cyclists from spinning through the slush this winter, thanks in part to a city so serious about accommodating them that it deploys mini-snow plows to clear bike lanes.
When pop rockers Maroon 5 titled their fourth record “Overexposed,” it may have been a case of wishful thinking.
Artist visits local gallery: See the art and watch the artist in action. That’s the attraction this weekend when artist Michael Flohr visits the Exclusive Collections Gallery in the Forum Shops at Caesars.
Memo, Robin Thicke to Jeff Beacher: “Can you please keep Miley distracted until Monday morning?”
Sure it would be great to close out Bruno Mars’ big year with him. But if you don’t get in, at least you don’t have to worry about his shelf life running out at midnight Tuesday.
A white Houston-area man was arrested Thursday on federal hate crimes charges for allegedly shooting video of himself sucker-punching a 79-year-old black man in a “knockout game”-style attack.
Two months after she was hit by a speeding car on Halloween night, Brazyl Ward was released from University Medical Center. “This is the greatest Christmas gift ever,” Brazyl’s father said Thursday night
Bally Technologies Inc. received some coal in its Christmas stocking this year, as gaming regulators filed a complaint accusing the slot machine manufacturer and operator of failing to register employees with the state.
Nevada Gold &Casinos Inc., a Las Vegas-based gaming company, expects to begin the new year in a stronger financial position after refinancing its long-term debt with a new five-year, $12.75 million revolving line of credit.
College of Southern Nevada professor Frederick Conquest will run as a candidate for Nevada governor for the second time in 2014.
Barbara Russom waited more than three months to bury the ashes of her friend, decorated Army veteran Thomas Francis Marion, at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City. And there are others like him.
Christmas is in the books, and the time has come to take down those trees that would have made “National Lampoon’s Vacation” character Clark Griswold proud. There are 34 locations in the valley to recycle your tree.
Feeling a little chilly lately? Consider warming up with one of these seasonal cocktails.
When it comes to bankruptcy, a debtor must actually live in a residence to claim Nevada’s homestead protection, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Meet Stephanie Flory, a dancer at the Monte Carlo Party Pit. She started taking ballet, jazz and modern dance lessons at age 5 and she would love to be in a Britney Spears video.
New allegations of excessive force tied to a suspended Family Court marshal have surfaced in court documents obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
You may call her Brit, Britters, Brit-Brit or, as her new album title suggests, Britney Jean. By whatever name, the pop superstar says the Britney Spears we see onstage is “a character” that has to be maintained and sustained.
It wasn’t enough for Beyonce to drop one of the biggest albums of the year right in the middle of the holiday season. Now, she’s made a young fan’s wish come true in a much bigger way.
The Ashcroft family loves participating in the Henderson WinterFest Parade. Once the parade is over, the family loads up their float at least one more time to take it through the neighborhood on a Christmas caroling outing.
A motorcyclist was killed Thursday afternoon in the northwest valley. Las Vegas police said the motorcycle was struck by a car about 2 p.m. near Craig Road and Rainbow Boulevard.
Purple Zebra, a 4,400-square-foot, self-service candy and slush bar, is scheduled to open Friday adjoining the Flamingo, 3555 Las Vegas Blvd. South. It has a floor-to-ceiling display of more than three dozen containers, from 16 to 100 ounces, which customers can fill with their choices from among more than 30 slush flavors, 10 of them nonalcoholic. Alternatively, they can fill the containers with candy ranging from gummy snakes to retro classics.
Grand Canyon National Park’s superintendent is drawing the ire of avid backcountry users over a plan to seasonally allow just one permit a week onto remote wilderness near the South Rim.