Whether you read an article about big game hunting in an outdoor magazine, watch a deer or elk hunting video on the Internet, or share stories about hunting while sitting around a fall campfire, at some point the discussion will focus on antlers. Personally, I prefer the antler stories told around the campfire, but you always need to keep in mind that antlers are like the fish that got away: They grow a little bigger each time their story is told.
■ LAKE MEAD — It has been trying times out on the lake with only light fishing action. Anglers have had a difficult time netting shad, so striper fishermen have been using anchovies as a substitute. Most fish are generally 3 pounds or less. Largemouth and smallmouth bass are holding in about 25 feet of water or toward the back of coves near brush. Casting jigs or dark plastics has enticed some response.
Based on current trajectory of public opinion and political trade winds, marijuana probably will be legal for social use all over the nation within the next decade.
Before the season, Bonanza girls basketball coach Dan Savage asked his team how many wins would be a reasonable team goal.
The $415 million SLS Las Vegas will open Labor Day Weekend, almost three years and three months after the hotel-casino, formerly known as the Sahara, was closed.
Longtime newsman Geoff Schumacher is leaving the business.
All the tourism officials were touting its economic benefits, but now they have proof.
DeAndre Hicks went 4-for-4 from the free-throw line in the final minute and scored eight of his 17 points in the fourth quarter Wednesday to help Bonanza’s boys basketball team to a 67-64 win over visiting Desert Oasis.
Alyssa Murphy’s layup with six seconds left in the game Wednesday lifted Pahrump Valley’s girls basketball team to a 27-26 home win over Cheyenne.
Cimarron-Memorial won four matches by pin Wednesday en route to a 46-18 home win over Liberty.
Meadow Valley Contractors Inc. was North Las Vegas’ first choice to finish the city’s multimillion-dollar North 5th Street improvement project, just not its last.
The magic moment happened for 30 airmen Wednesday evening at Nellis Air Force Base. After more than four months of absence and a couple hours of waiting, they returned to the arms of their loved ones following a rescue helicopter mission in the Horn of Africa.
Taylor Howie’s touchdown pass to Haley Nibarger on the final play of the game Wednesday lifted Arbor View’s flag football team to a 24-19 win over visiting Sierra Vista.
Alcohol is suspected to be a factor in a head-on crash that killed two people on eastbound Summerlin Parkway Wednesday afternoon, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
A judge on Wednesday ordered a Texas teenager who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people to go to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents.
Adam Hughesman put the Wranglers ahead 1-0 at the 4:34 mark with his team-leading 13th goal, but Las Vegas was shut out the rest of the way in a 4-1 ECHL loss to the Colorado Eagles on Wednesday night at Orleans Arena.
The shooting woes continued Wednesday night for the UNLV women’s basketball team in a 66-48 Mountain West loss to Colorado State at Cox Pavilion.
He spent more than a dozen years running some of the best restaurants on the Strip, beginning with his five-star Renoir at The Mirage and ending with his Michelin two-star Alex at Wynn Las Vegas.
Follow the link for some of the top performances from the week of Jan. 27-Feb. 1.
Former “American Idol” and “Celebrity Apprentice” runner-up Clay Aiken joined another high-profile contest Wednesday — this one to get elected to Congress in his native North Carolina.
Luis R. Batista, 32, a former emission control inspector, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a family-run scheme to submit phony test results to the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.
A second victim was identified Monday in a case involving Mark Picozzi, 48, who is accused of sexually assaulting women while impersonating a law enforcement officer, Las Vegas police said.
Follow the link for the latest boys basketball coaches poll.
UNLV opens the football season Aug. 30 at Arizona, and it was expected cornerback Chazz Eldridge would be on the field. But the Rebels won’t have to be concerned about facing him.
Follow the link for the latest girls basketball coaches poll.
Attorneys representing nearly 1,000 Sun City Summerlin residents whose individual damage claims were nearly all rejected by a jury in a massive construction defect dispute took their case to the Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Medical marijuana dispensaries dominated the day Wednesday in Clark County and Las Vegas, with county officials working on specifics of operations and city officials voting 5-2 for a motion to tell staff to research options, but stopping short of saying “go forward.”
Gloria Lee, 35, who is accused of trying to burn down a pet shop filled with puppies, was placed on house arrest and is facing dozens of new charges and an arrest warrant was issued for her alleged accomplice.
When you look at your life, do you peer at the nooks and crannies that make up the base of your every day?
Hunting for treasures seems to be an inborn trait. Perhaps it’s from the need of the caveman to search, find food and store some for later use. For centuries, the very rich surrounded themselves with expensive art and artifacts to impress each other and “the peasants.”
