Nevada’s severe drought is a tragedy unfolding in slow motion but its effects will be far reaching — from rural communities that depend on ranching and agriculture for their existence to the prices we all pay for food at the grocery store.
A Nevada State Bar disciplinary panel is recommending that former Nevada political powerbroker Harvey Whittemore be allowed to keep his law license until the appeal of his three felony convictions for violating campaign finance laws is decided.
Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo’s email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday.
Corporate hackathons aren’t adhering to judging criteria. Participants are being exploited for free labor. The large cash prizes create an unfriendly environment. There aren’t enough minorities.
The UNLV women’s basketball team suffered its worst loss of the season Saturday, falling to Boise State 79-49 in a Mountain West game at Boise, Idaho.
For connoisseurs of the porcine spheroid, today is the day.
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and top law officers from other states are fighting a lawsuit challenging Nevada’s gay marriage ban, arguing no fundamental right to same-sex marriage exists.
Fellow Republicans on Saturday debated the fallout over new suggestions that Gov. Chris Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides as apparent political payback earlier than he has acknowledged.
It’s puppy love for the record books: The Labrador retriever was the nation’s most popular dog breed last year for a 23rd year in a row, the American Kennel Club announced Friday.
Gotta dance! Good thing, too, because dancing’s definitely what puts the flash in “Flashdance: The Musical,” which continues through Sunday at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Yet another who-needs-it musical based on a past movie hit, at least “Flashdance” has a built-in reason to sing and dance.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Mexican restaurants this week.
With its plans to run a party train to Los Angeles sidetracked indefinitely, Las Vegas Railway Express will try to find passengers for private railcars.
Gov. Brian Sandoval is defending his decision to allow the use of a Nevada Air National Guard aircraft to fly a critically ill woman to an Oregon hospital for life-saving treatment.
Among the many oddities that have arisen from marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado is this: It can be easier to get through airport security with a bag of weed than a bottle of water.
Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in “Judgment at Nuremberg,” has died. He was 83.
One of the obvious storylines this week centered on the lasting legacy of one of the biggest stars of his sport who again will chase the holy grail of his profession. That athlete is Urijah Faber.
President Barack Obama is running out of reasons to say no to Keystone XL, the proposed oil pipeline that’s long been looming over his environmental legacy.
Firefighters rescued more than two dozen of puppies from fire danger earlier this week after a 35-year-old Las Vegas woman tried to set fire to her pet store on Rainbow Boulevard just south of the Las Vegas Beltway, a fire official said late Friday.
Bertolucci Brazilian Steakhouse is a Brazilian steakhouse, specializing in the rodizio style of cooking, in which various cuts and types of meats are grilled and brought to the table on skewers, to be sliced off and served. Then again, there are a number of things it’s not.
A Utah ape that has correctly picked the Super Bowl winner for six straight years predicted Thursday that the Seattle Seahawks will be the next NFL champion.
When all was said and done, 39.67 million visitors came to Las Vegas in 2013, down 0.1 percent from the 39.73 million people who came to the city in 2012, which was a record. The previous high was 39.2 million visitors in 2007.
North Las Vegas police are requesting the public’s help in locating a 76-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease who has been missing since Thursday.
Washoe County’s present is dominated by the adjacent cities of Reno and Sparks, but its past is steeped in history, much of it focusing on the Indian tribe for which it was named.
The irony is apparently lost on Commissioner Roger Goodell and all the other high-ranking executives at the NFL’s New York headquarters, who are overseeing the final details of Sunday’s Super Bowl in the Big Apple: Las Vegas is the place to be on Super Bowl weekend.
A Western outpost made famous by the Buffalo Soldiers and the U.S. military’s campaign to capture Geronimo is up for sale, one of a number of landmarks nationwide facing the wrecking ball amid tight budgets and a shift in Washington about what history is worth saving.
A group of UNLV players recently gathered to watch a Mountain West basketball game on TV, and something caught Khem Birch’s ear.
With a reported increase in residential robberies and in registered handguns, Las Vegas police will be addressing related safety issues with the public at 7 p.m. Tuesday at area command stations.
Hofbrauhaus hierarchy from Germany joined the 10th anniversary celebration of Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas on Friday.
American Legion Post 8 will hold a memorial service Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. for former post commander and Las Vegas police crime scene investigator Jerry Autrey.