Some 70 new conventions of at least 500 attendees each are set to come to Las Vegas this year, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Mary-Sarah Kinner, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval’s only communications director-press secretary, announced Thursday she will be leaving Feb. 21 to take a job as deputy national press secretary for StudentsFirst.
Six inspectors and one supervisor will soon be hired to oversee dozens of expected medical marijuana dispensaries, grow houses and laboratories under Nevada’s new medical marijuana law, a state official said Thursday.
Monique Bork, 28, who tried to cover up that her boyfriend shook her 2-month-old son, which led to the boy’s death five years later, was sentenced to 8 to 20 years in prison Wednesday.
Early-stage women entrepreneurs in Las Vegas have a new source for low-cost business loans to apply for after the Tory Burch Foundation and Bank of America launched the $10 million Elizabeth Street Capital initiative.
With a cast toplined by writer-director George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray and John Goodman, it’s the “Ocean’s Eleven” of regular-guys-trying-to-save-priceless-works-of-art-from-Nazis-and-Russians movies. So why isn’t “The Monuments Men” more fun?
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City of Las Vegas park law enforcement is looking for a man who broke into a car on the north side of the valley on Sunday.
Jason Kanigan succeeded with a maverick move. He has received four job offers where he set himself up as the one candidate.
Patricia Becker holds the distinction of being the first woman to serve on the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Sometimes it’s the little things.
Major league baseball player Shane Victorino recalled nearly quitting professional baseball after he was sent to the minor leagues more than a decade ago, while former eight-year NFL player Vernon Fox said he was about to quit pursuing his pro football career after not being drafted out of Fresno State in 2002.
The fate of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s pipeline project is back in the hands of the Nevada Supreme Court.
Facebook’s Look Back videos have saturated users’ news feeds this week, allowing users to share with their friends their biggest moments on the site. But a Missouri man who cared more about seeing his son’s biggest moments petitioned Facebook to make it possible.
Ralph Kiner, who slugged his way into the baseball Hall of Fame and enjoyed a half-century career as a popular broadcaster, died Thursday. He was 91. Kiner hit 369 home runs during his 10-year career, mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Though some rain was falling Thursday and predicted to last through the weekend in the north and central parts of the state, California remains in the midst of an historic drought leaving rural areas dangerously low on water.
Concerns about Olympic hotel rooms in Sochi are approaching the absurd.
Las Vegas police are looking for a man who broke into a woman’s home while she was there, forced her to stay while he stole things, and then stole her minivan.
The two Las Vegas residents who died in a car crash Wednesday afternoon on the Summerlin Parkway have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Chip Shapiro first fell in love with cars as a young boy growing up in Minneapolis, hanging around a neighbor’s gas station doing odd jobs for five bucks a week. In between, he asked mechanics a lot of questions and eventually discovered he had talent for fixing cars.
There are more reasons to watch the Games than just for stories about toilets. Here are 9 of them.
The L.A. Lakers started Thursday night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers with only eight players, but after two injuries and two foul outs, the Lakers had to rely on an little-known NBA rule to keep five players on the court.
Gordon Miles started the new year with a new job.
As the official energy drink of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, fellow Las Vegas-based company Xyience has always been associated with mixed martial arts.
A 10,000-square-foot suite that includes a basketball court at the Palms will set you back $25,000 a night. At MGM Grand’s Skylofts, you will find a bathtub that fizzes with Champagne-like massage bubbles and airport pickup in a $400,000 car.
Inside Tipsy Totes, mini satin bustiers line the walls while wine bottle stoppers rest on shelves.
More than 3,200 personnel and nearly 160 aircraft, pilots from the Australian Air Force, the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and U.S. forces participated in one of the biggest Red Flag exercises staged at Nellis Air Force Base.
It wasn’t the punch that killed Michael Burtosky on the Strip. It was the fall to the ground. Burtosky, a homeless man, was fatally injured after a scuffle over a woman with Joseph Gilbert Hyde on the bridge connecting the MGM Grand and New York-New York on Sept. 14.