Sony Pictures is the first to formally apply for a tax credit under Nevada’s new $20 million program intended to help bring the filming of more major motion pictures to the state. Sony is requesting $4.2 million in tax credits to film “Mall Cop: Blart 2” in Las Vegas.
They say 208 million avocados would fill a football field — end zone to end zone — over the top of the goal posts. So get your game on, guacamole lovers.
A brief history (of the historically brief, as it turns out) of Asking Human Matters …
Las Vegas police are looking or a man who robbed two banks in the last week. The first robbery was Jan. 22 near Lake Mead and Rampart boulevards. The second robbery was Jan. 28 near Rainbow Boulevard and Russell Road.
Slow-paced customers trickle into the bar to find their regular seats as 9-to-5 workers end their shifts on a Tuesday. Only a few empty seats remain around the bar as costumers chat in small groups during happy hour.
A police officer shot a 17-year-old runaway in the wrist at a Hawaiii high school after the teen cut one officer with a knife and punched two others, authorities said.
Calling the NCAA a “dictatorship,” a handful of Northwestern football players announced Tuesday they are forming the first labor union for college athletes — one they hope will eventually represent players nationwide.
The World Market Center is in the midst of the 2014 Winter Las Vegas Market, bringing together professional buyers and sellers of furniture, gifts and home décor.
With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers.
New music venue/hipster bowling alley Brooklyn Bowl has announced its first shows. The 80,000-square-foot, three-level property opens in March at The Linq.
Taxable sales in Nevada and Clark County rose in November, posting a 2.1 percent gain over November 2012. In Clark County, sales came in at $2.75 billion, up 5.7 percent from $2.6 billion a year earlier.
Stephens Media LLC, owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, today announced several changes in top management ranks.
Starting Tuesday, Google is offering an optional attachment for prescription lenses and new styles of detachable sunglasses for Google Glass.
At the end of the day, the notes Garth Callaghan writes for his daughter’s lunchbox may be the only part of him she has left.
Actors’ Equity members held a town-hall meeting to discuss low salaries on several musical tours, including those that have come to The Smith Center or are planning to stop there. Among the shows cited for lower pay scales were “Wicked,” “Sister Act,” “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” “Newsies” and “Kinky Boots.”
There will be a DUI checkpoint on Super Bowl Sunday on the east side of the Las Vegas Valley, police announced Tuesday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recommending denial of a federal wetlands permit for a highway bypass project planned for decades to connect south Reno to east Sparks and reduce interstate congestion.
I hadn’t talked to Dana Carvey in so long, I forgot how much he makes me laugh on the phone. We began by reviewing our health.
The instant gratification that smartphones provide today’s toddlers is “going to be hard to overcome,” said Deborah Best, a professor of cognitive developmental psychology. “They like things immediately, and they like it short and quick.”
A magnitude-4.1 earthquake shook near Beaver Dam State Park, Nevada’s most remote state park, at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday.
James Carl was asleep when the first shot was fired. As he slumbered away in Costa Mesa, Calif., the 29-year-old banker’s virtual space fleet was under siege early Monday morning in what’s become the most destructive and expensive battle in the 10-year history of “EVE Online,” the gargantuan international video game.
Howard Hughes Corp. on Tuesday announced more tenants for the Shops at Summerlin, a new retail mall being built in western Las Vegas. Stores being added include Michael Kors, True Religion, Sephora and Victoria’s Secret, officials said in a statement.
In case you missed it, Las Vegas businessman Jim Rogers launched into a wild tirade on Facebook over the weekend against the Nevada Board of Regents for selecting businessman Don Snyder on Friday as the interim UNLV president.
Centennial Hills native Chris Boudreaux, happy to be a part of Men of the Strip, refuses to conform to the stripper stereotypes. He’s not gay. He’s not down on his luck. He never feels objectified.
You might have missed it amid all the Super Bowl weather reports, but Bushwacker the bull — the baddest bucking bull on the planet — announced his retirement in Oklahoma City the other day.
Clark County and the union representing some 3,000 employees at University Medical Center have reached a proposed contract that gives workers three cost-of-living increases that will total a combined 5.5 percent during the next two years.
A good crowd of family members and friends turned out Friday morning at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Mustang Avenue for the funeral of former Metro Intelligence Bureau Commander Kent Clifford.
A Maine woman who went into labor as she was about to go to the hospital gave birth while standing in her driveway in frigid temperatures.
Very little about Roy Nelson’s professional mixed martial arts career has given any indication of a desire to get into politics.
