LeBron James’ career-best 61-point performance Monday night caught the attention of the sports world. But not everyone was lauding the effort.
Austin Dillon brought the No. 3 car back to NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series, and said the reaction have been overwhelmingly positive. He also once played in the Little League World Series.
He doesn’t show a lot of emotion when asked about it, but Alfredo Angulo clearly cherishes his freedom.
It’s not the NCAA Championships, but several of the nation’s best men’s golf teams will be competing in Las Vegas this weekend when UNLV hosts the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters.
During Restaurant Week, which runs from Friday through March 14, Las Vegas residents and visitors can take advantage of special discounted menus at local dining spots and benefit Three Square food bank, which will receive a set amount for every menu sold.
A new punk rock supergroup and a rising pop duo top the latest roundup of Vegas music releases:
There’s never been a better time to be in the Alfonso Cuaron business.
So you’re curious about the whole NASCAR experience, but you’re intimidated by the ticket prices, the crowds, the traffic jams and the very real chance that you’ll forget where you parked and spend a couple of hours wandering the massive lot in vain, desperately searching for your car, until you’re on the verge of tears? Well, you’re in luck.
There’s a patch of chard over there, full and ready for harvesting. Some parsley here. And, even, a few early-sprouting spears of asparagus.
The Riviera always had a crazy number of show venues for what its room count and location could support. So don’t be surprised to learn it’s on the way back to hosting seven or eight titles again.
NASCAR didn’t just make some tweaks to its playoff and qualifying formats during the offseason.
When NASCAR announced it was changing the rules again, to create a winner-take-all, one-race showdown for the Sprint Cup championship, there was an uproar. A very loud uproar. It sounded like the flyover before the Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway before the government shutdown, when there still were flyovers.
Matt Kenseth won last year’s Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on his 41st birthday. He held off a late charge from Kasey Kahne.
Here are the top 10 driver ratings for the Sprint Cup Kobalt 400 before practice begins Thursday:
Four Las Vegas drivers compete in NASCAR’s top two series, the most from any city. All four are enjoying careers on the upswing.
It was game, set and match for the Las Vegas Neon before the first serve was ever made.
EP Renewable Inc., backer of a controversial waste-burning gasification power plant proposed in North Las Vegas, has withdrawn its application for a special use permit needed to build the facility off Losee and Lone Mountain Roads.
A 53-year-old Henderson man could face the death penalty after he was convicted on Wednesday of fatally beating his mother in 2009.
The mother of the man shot by Las Vegas police late Tuesday after he flashed a handgun at officers says her her son didn’t deserve to be shot. “He’s no angel,” Barbara Sprouse said, “but he did not deserve this.” Her son, 29-year-old Jason Mahe, was shot outside a Dotty’s Casino at Rancho and Vegas drives just before midnight, police said.
NASCAR fans lined Las Vegas Boulevard to watch hauler trucks on Wednesday during their annual parade up the Las Vegas Strip to kick off NASCAR festivities.
The Clark County Commission Wednesday unanimously voted to allow a potbellied pig rescue operator to keep as many as eight porkers for purposes of adoption.
With more than 100 private ambulance employees glaring at his back Wednesday, Las Vegas Fire Chief Willie McDonald told City Council members that he has changed the balance of lucrative hospital transports so his department will handle 50 percent of the calls.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has decided to stay home for his May 3 welterweight title fight with Marcos Maidana.
Animal welfare activists are “aggressively exploring” their legal options regarding the treatment of 27 puppies that survived a Las Vegas pet store fire, said Gina Greisen, founder of Nevada Voters for Animals. “We’re just doing our best to put up a fight against a huge injustice that we believe has occurred on behalf of the puppies,” she said.
The Transportation Security Administration on Wednesday is opening an enrollment center at McCarran International Airport for passengers to sign up for Pre-Check, a program that enables trusted travelers to move through TSA security lines faster.
Company CEO Keith Smith used a fourth-quarter conference call Wednesday to express Boyd Gaming’s interest in the potential Japanese casino market.
Small-business backers of a proposed 2 percent margins tax on Nevada companies on Wednesday launched their campaign to promote the “Education Initiative,” or Question 3 on the Nov. 4 ballot.
The Clark County Commission introduced an ordinance Wednesday that would allow medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in the county, setting the stage for a public hearing and a possible commission vote on March 19.