Don’t let anyone say downtown Las Vegas can’t have anything nice, at least not after Inspire Theater is up and running. To say Inspire will operate in renovated space of the former 7-Eleven at Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard is to undersell the word “renovated.”
Federal investigators said Wednesday they have recovered a broken axle at the scene of an oil train derailment and fire in southeastern North Dakota but don’t know yet whether it caused the wreck.
When it comes to TV, the whole out-with-the-old, in-with-the-new thing couldn’t come soon enough. That’s because calling the networks’ fall season underwhelming is like saying Kanye West has a somewhat favorable opinion of himself.
A billowing fire engulfed a three-story building with several apartments near downtown Minneapolis early Wednesday, sending more than a dozen people to hospitals with injuries — some critical — ranging from burns to trauma associated with falls.
James Avery, the bulky character actor who laid down the law as the Honorable Philip Banks in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” has died.
The Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic died Wednesday in a blast that occurred when he opened an office safe that had been sealed for at least 20 years, officials said.
Even a year after his death, former Clark County Fire Department Capt. Paul Young continues to make an impact on peoples’ lives.
North Texas took advantage of a tiring UNLV defense to score four touchdowns in the second half and win the Heart of Dallas Bowl 36-14 today before an announced crowd of 38,380 at Cotton Bowl Stadium.
Passengers on board a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice for more than a week are expected to be rescued by helicopter on Thursday after three icebreakers failed to reach the paralyzed vessel, officials said.
Sin City’s New Year’s Eve revelry was one of the most orderly in recent years, Las Vegas police said.
“Acele iŞe Şeytan karıŞır.” English equivalent: Haste makes waste. Meaning: If you hurry your work it will turn out wrong.
The start of a new year is a time of reflection and goal-setting, and one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is to get organized. In fact, January is National Get Organized month.
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Richard Leifried was honored for contributing more than 20,000 volunteer hours on Master Gardener projects. Leifried has been a Master Gardener in the Las Vegas program since 1994. He volunteers regularly on the Home Gardening Help Line and helps organize the monthly membership meetings.
For those who would like quality roses, Plant World Nursery on West Charleston Boulevard has brought in Weeks roses. These are high quality roses. They will cost more than roses produced for mass merchandisers but they are high quality. For a recommended rose for the desert, visit my blog and search for “best roses for the desert.”
Certain current or former heavy smokers should start getting yearly scans for lung cancer to cut their risk of death from the nation’s top cancer killer, government advisers said Monday — even as they stressed that the tests aren’t for everyone.
Q: My dishwasher has finally gone to the appliance graveyard. I thought I’d buy a new one and install it myself. It looks pretty easy. Is it?
Crowds descend on Fremont Street for a New Year’s Eve party to welcome 2013.
The UNLV women’s basketball team trailed by as many as 25 points before losing 79-63 to Fresno State on Wednesday in the Mountain West opener for both teams at Cox Pavilion.
Samsung said a 110-inch TV that has four times the resolution of standard high-definition TVs is going on sale for about $150,000 in South Korea.
Bill O’Brien is leaving Penn State less than two years after replacing Joe Paterno and returning to the NFL with the Houston Texans to coach the worst team in the league.
Tucked in a remote corner of Clark County, the Goodsprings Township constable is struggling to keep his office’s financial affairs in order, and even fired one of his employees for suspected embezzlement in 2012, county records show.
Forget whether Hillary Clinton could win the White House in 2016. Women still have yet to run many statehouses, but in 2014 two Texas Democrats are going for a new kind of history: Winning as an all-female ticket.
At least one person was injured after a shooting about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday on Jones Boulevard near Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas police records show.
As festive floats marched down this Southern California city’s streets in the 125th Rose Parade on New Year’s Day, a heavy police presence ringed the revelry in the aftermath of tragedy at another high-profile event.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of shareholder complaints against several current and former officers and directors of MGM Resorts International over construction of the CityCenter project in Las Vegas.
Just minutes north of Las Vegas sits the largest national wildlife refuge outside of Alaska, but the welcome to visitors has long been understated, to say the least.
The nation’s first recreational pot industry opened in Colorado on Wednesday, kicking off an experiment that will be followed closely around the world and one that activists hope will prove that legalization is a better alternative than the costly American-led drug war.
Before she died in December 1925, the Washoe Indian basket maker called Dat So La Lee insisted that she should be buried with one of her baskets. Today her baskets fetch from $200,000 up to $1 million, if you can find them.
Follow the link for the schedules and results (when available) for the boys and girls basketball tournaments being held in Southern Nevada from Jan. 1-4, 2014.
