The luck of the Irish returned to downtown Henderson on Saturday as the 48th annual Sons and Daughters of Erin St. Patrick’s Day Parade marched on Water Street, celebrating a theme of “Shamrocks and Shenanigans.”
GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval is poised to coast to an easy second-term victory after the filing deadline for candidates for public office closed Friday and no strong Democrat or Republican emerged to challenge him.
Someone deliberately diverted Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and shut down communications with the ground, and the jetliner continued flying for six hours, Malaysia’s prime minister said Saturday. The announcement shifted the focus of the investigation to the crew and passengers on the plane, which has now been missing for more than a week.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Italian restaurants this week. Restaurants are rated on a letter-grade scale, from A to F.
A Florida teenager is accused of trying to poison his teacher by putting hand sanitizer in her Diet Coke.
Warm temperatures and clear skies are expected to reach into Sunday and Monday in Las Vegas, with highs in the low 80s, above normal for this time of year.
Officers at thousands of law enforcement agencies are wearing tiny cameras to record their interactions with the public, but in many cases the devices are being rolled out faster than departments are able to create policies to govern their use.
There are no answers, just questions that begat more questions. This is one of the few inviolable truths when navigating the prog rock legerdemain of Tool, where little is at it initially seems.
One of the region’s largest residential real estate brokerages is taking on one of corporate America’s most famous names. Prudential Americana Group, Realtors will rebrand its Nevada operation as Berkshire Hathaway Home Services-Nevada Properties.
Dr. Seuss had it right: Horton really does hear a Who. Wild elephants can distinguish between human languages, and they can tell whether a voice comes from a man, woman or boy, a new study says.
Nevada’s economic director has approved $4.3 million in transferable film tax credits for the production of “Mall Cop: Blart 2” in Las Vegas.
The man who police say crashed his car on the 215 Beltway Thursday after he was shot during an argument has been identified.
Las Vegas police announced Thursday morning that they will conduct a DUI checkpoint Monday in the east side of the Las Vegas Valley.
Australia’s famed “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin knew he was dying after a massive stingray stabbed him in the chest hundreds of times, the only witness to the fatal 2006 attack said in his first detailed public account of the beloved conservationist’s death.
Sandy the dog “muttbombed” celebrities like Bradley Cooper, Ellen DeGeneres and Brad Pitt as they posed at the Oscars for the now-famous star-studded selfie. That digitally tweaked version of the most retweeted photo ever is a Texas animal rescue’s bet that combining cuddly canines and Hollywood stars will entice more social media users to adopt needy pets.
Amazon is betting that shoppers will pay $20 more for its popular Prime two-day free shipping and video streaming service of movies and TV shows.
Colleges are paying students to take a year off after high school to travel, volunteer or do internships so that students of all income brackets can benefit from “gap years.”
A man convicted of killing nine people, including six monks, during a robbery at a Buddhist temple in metro Phoenix was sentenced Friday to 249 years in prison, marking the end of one of the most notorious crimes committed in Arizona over the last 25 years.
Shaped like a lopsided headband, Google Glass is an unassuming piece of technology when you’re holding it in your hands. You feel as if you can almost break it, testing its flexibility. Putting it on, though, is another story.
The FBI is refusing to run nationwide background checks on people applying to run legal marijuana businesses in Washington state, even though it has conducted similar checks in Colorado — a discrepancy that illustrates the quandary the Justice Department faces as it allows the states to experiment with regulating a drug that’s long been illegal under federal law.
An end appears to be in sight to an expensive, nearly three-year legal feud between Clark County and the Southern Nevada Health District.
Steve Alford has a new job in a new conference with a whole new set of players. Yet he finds himself in a very familiar spot today as he prepares to lead his team into a conference tournament championship game in Las Vegas.
RICHLAND, Wash. — The Department of Energy must pay Energy Northwest $19 million for its continued costs from the failure to open a national repository for spent fuel from its nuclear power plant, a federal court ordered.
UNLV’s basketball team might over the next 24 hours be given the opportunity to continue a season that has delivered more disappointments than not, but the Rebels should deny any and all such inquiries.
Teddi Tarnoff didn’t grow up jamming on the bass or singing heavy rock, but you wouldn’t know the difference listening to her perform today. Although trained in classical music, she joined the original School of Rock Philadelphia to learn how to play the guitar at 14. Now she runs the School of Rock Las Vegas West.
This gentleman is Neil Scartozzi. He trimmed Tom Selleck’s mustache recently. He likes his regular customer “Hammertime” (MC Hammer). He’s what we journalists call “a character,” the main man at the Riviera’s Celebrity Club men’s salon since 1975.
The John S. Cook Bank never closes here. The saloons have vanished, and the town’s school bell hasn’t rung in decades.
A Spalding sports equipment technician armed with lasers showed up recently at the Thomas & Mack Center — and he was on a mission. He was there to make sure the basketball rim and backboard support equipment were properly aligned and connected into a special Mountain West court floor. But he was also there to change Thomas & Mack’s look and convert the venue into a neutral site.
The trade show for putting on trade shows is headed to Las Vegas. EXHIBITOR2014 is being held March 16-20 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and will feature a conference and expo for industry only. Show management is expecting about 6,000 attendees and 275 exhibiting companies.
Southern Nevada leaders are starting to scope out priorities — including treansportation, mental health, and funding equity — for the 2015 state legislative session.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas teen killed in minibike crash had 10 times legal limit for pot, report says
Mom killed in fatal crash near 215 Beltway identified
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school