The Henderson City Council wants to find out during the next few months whether citizens and business owners of the city are willing to pay more in property taxes to maintain itself as a “premier city.”
The decision by Acting President Don Snyder and Provost John White should be made “very soon,” said Carl Reiber, vice provost for academic affairs. Reiber said Tuesday that he and his colleagues conferred with 50 to 60 deans of reputable schools before choosing a handful of finalists.
Certain requirements of a Nevada Medicaid regulation enacted in January have been suspended, at least for 90 days, because of a financial crisis that Clark County foster care providers are facing and to prevent children from being displaced.
It’s February, which means it’s time for Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue. And this being the issue’s 50th anniversary, this year’s magazine is especially meaningful.
Marc Silas had 15 of his 20 points in the first half to help Chaparral’s boys basketball team defeat Sunrise Mountain 77-52 on Tuesday at Del Sol.
Smith Center President Myron Martin kicked up his heels Tuesday evening — in a pair of red, sequined, spike-heeled, thigh-high boots — to announce the center’s 2014-15 Broadway Las Vegas series, led by “Kinky Boots.”
There’s a lot riding on the shoulders of Ed Daykin and his team when it comes to certifying that the nation’s nuclear warheads are safe, secure and reliable.
An arbitrator has partially reinstated the Las Vegas police lieutenant demoted by the department in the wake of the controversial 2011 Stanley Gibson shooting.
An inmate serving 10 years to life in prison died Feb. 16 at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center.
The Wisconsin National Guard announced Tuesday that it had suspended a member from honor guard duties after she apparently posted to social media a photograph of soldiers mugging around an empty, flag-draped casket.
Caesars said today Victor Drai, whose old club on the Strip didn’t even open its doors until vampires awoke from their coffins after midnight, will debut his new rooftop pool place Memorial Day weekend.
North Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting that wounded two people in the 600 block of Lake Mead Boulevard Tuesday afternoon.
A promotional photo for UNLV’s basketball game Wednesday night is being called offensive by many for its depiction of a black New Mexico Lobos player being led on a leash by the Rebels’ mascot, Hey Reb!
Spurs guard Tony Parker will not play “for the foreseeable future.”
When the Las Vegas Wranglers move to new ice downtown, team owners will invest $4 million in a 45,000-square-foot, fabric-shell structure to house a hockey rink and seating for 3,500 on the roof of the Plaza Hotel casino, across from the Fremont Street Experience.
Defiant protesters shouted “Glory to Ukraine” as burning tents lit up the night sky after thousands of riot police moved against the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kiev on Tuesday.
Lisa Willardson, the former prosecutor entangled in a romantic relationship with Family Court Judge Steven Jones, died from an accidental drug overdose, officials said Tuesday.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said Tuesday that he believes Congress will act to raise the minimum wage as proposed by President Obama earlier this year. He noted that a federal report released Tuesday on hiking the minimum wage shows that it would bring about 1 million people out of poverty.
A mother upset about “indecent” T-shirts on display at a Utah mall found a quick if not especially convenient way to remove them: She bought every last one.
Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter testified Tuesday that he was essentially paid to play via his scholarship. Colter characterized playing college football as a job and said schools make clear to incoming players that athletics are a higher priority than academics.
Trial lawyer Robert Eglet, partner in the Las Vegas-based law firm Eglet Wall Christiansen Trial Attorneys, 400 S. Seventh St., was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the National Trial Lawyers Association on Jan. 20.
Five people were shot, including one man who was shot 10 times, by 24-year-old Peter Andrade, after an altercation in the restroom at El Palacio Del Sol at 953 E. Sahara Avenue, police said.
John Lopez, the Washington insider who testified with immunity in former U.S. Sen. John Ensign’s ethics case and guided the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act through Congress, is now the city of Las Vegas’ government affairs manager.
Trooper Lucas Schwarzrock, a five-year veteran of NHP responded to the scene where 20-year-old D’Andre Berghardt Jr. was shot and killed by a Bureau of Land Management ranger after Berghardt got into Schwarzrock’s patrol car.
The former Mirage tram driver and graduate of Chaparral High School and UNLV will use an upcoming episode of the Vegas-based drama to launch a series set in the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division in Quantico, Va.
Someone claiming to be the hackers who knocked Las Vegas Sands Corp. off the Internet for nearly a week has posted an 11-minute video purporting to show stolen internal company information and taunting the international casino operator.
Two men observing a police stop Friday watched in growing disbelief and then horror as the seemingly routine incident turned deadly when a federal ranger shot a man inside a state trooper’s patrol car.
The 65,000-square-foot day-club and nightclub pool deck on the roof of the redeveloped Cromwell will open Memorial Day weekend, Caesars Entertainment Corp. announced Tuesday.
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