Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman cares about public safety. She really cares about public safety.
Last week was the deadline for filing federal income taxes, a cause for mourning unless you’re one of those lucky few U.S. corporations that pays no income tax. But the rest of us had to pony up.
Longevity pay has been going the way of the dinosaur, here in Southern Nevada and nationwide. Over the past few years, Clark County and all but one of its unions rightly moved to phase out the incentive for future hires. But the Service Employees International Union Local 1107 is determined to ride the longevity pay mastodon, long after the rest of its union brethren have agreed to remove the stipulation for future hires.
It’s a long cultural journey between Brandeis University and Bunkerville. But out of those completely different American landscapes came two powerful lessons in free speech.
Contrary to popular belief, April 15 wasn’t just the day your taxes were due. It was also the exact day when, on average, you finally earned enough money to pay off all of the taxes you owe for 2014. Once that date passed, you could start to keep the money you made.
Palo Verde’s softball team came up just short in its quest for a tournament championship Saturday.
For the second straight game, the Wranglers scored late in the first period to quiet the constant clanging of cowbells at Alaska’s Sullivan Arena.
A couple of years ago, Patrick McCaw was stuck with a nickname because he seemed to strike a resemblance to an NBA shooting star, Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors.
Most didn’t notice the new library at this Islamic seminary for girls near Pakistan’s capital, until locals saw the paper sign in Urdu posted on its wooden door: “Library of Osama bin Laden, the Martyr.”
Durango senior guard Darryl Gaynor waited to see if he would get any more scholarship offers.
Palo Verde’s softball team came up just short in its quest for a tournament championship Saturday.
A 3-foot gap exists between Silverado senior Aaron Schwarze, 18, and the earth beneath his feet, yet he manages to walk without the support of solid ground. He balances himself as his feet center atop a 2-inch-wide string, known as webbing, and begins his stride forward.
Follow the link for the schedule and results (when available) for the Spring Jamboree softball tournament at Majestic Park. The tournament runs from April 17-19.
Each time a public official or political candidate spoke out for or against the Bureal of Land Management or Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy, who fought off federal attempts to remove his cattle from Gold Butte, it added fuel to an already hot-burning fire that quickly turned into a national inferno, pitting the romantic image of the cowboy rancher against the behemoth federal government that owns 85 percent of the Silver State.
Fabricio Werdum solidified his standing as the top contender in the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight division with a convincing unanimous decision over Travis Browne in the main event of a Fox card in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday night.
Shalane Flanagan grew up in nearby Marblehead with a reverence for the Boston Marathon and dreamed, like many locals and foreign runners alike, that she would win the race someday.
Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak.
Clark County’s high school graduation rate may have leaped skyward 10 percentage points last year, but that’s not likely to happen again.
Fiat and Chrysler announced plans Saturday to build three new Jeep models in China for that market, the biggest for the vehicles outside the United States, as they attempt to boost sales in a country where they lag behind their competitors.
A Northern Nevada youth soccer coach accused of striking a referee after a game has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge.
The Internet’s favorite grandma is in town this weekend to celebrate her 103rd birthday.
Workers and residents have watched helplessly in recent days as a slow-motion landslide spanning hundreds of yards split a house in two and inched ever closer to a cluster of businesses below.
Boulder City veterans seeking bus service to the Veterans Medical Center in North Las Vegas see one problem fixed, only to encounter another.
Former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian is back home after spending 10 days in a Las Vegas hospital following a heart attack.
Mexican singer Juan Gabriel plans to resume his tour concerts May 1 after being released from a Las Vegas hospital.
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