After more than 60 years in operation, Bonnie Springs Ranch still draws crowds year-round. The privately owned dude ranch is minutes from Las Vegas, surrounded by the arresting scenery of the Red Rock National Conservation Area.
As Southern Nevada works to diversify its economy, here’s one thing that’s holding us back, costing us jobs and making us less competitive: Our region simply does not have enough existing, large industrial buildings required by many of the businesses that want to relocate here. Supply isn’t meeting demand. As a result, we missed out on as many as 18,000 jobs in the past year.
The blaze at Frazier Masonry Corp. at 4460 Riviera Ridge Ave., near Lamb Boulevard and Alexander Road, did an estimated $500,000 worth of damage, according to Clark County Fire Department.
They come in different flavors and wrappers and — like Halloween candy — are best for certain age groups: boy bands.
In many ways, Cody Lewis represents the changing face of heroin in America. He is in his 20s, lives in the suburbs and graduated to heroin after years of getting high with other drugs. “My whole existence,” he says, “was just finding ways to get high.”
Two new studies describe the latest achievements in growing body parts in a lab and transplanting them into people, this time with nostrils and vaginas.
Scientists at the museum have used CT scans and sophisticated imaging software to go beneath the bandages, revealing skin, bones, preserved internal organs — and in one case a brain-scooping rod left inside a skull by embalmers.
A Twitter user found out the hard way Sunday morning that airlines have to take threats seriously — even ones made jokingly online.
The Swiss-made airplane built for the first round-the-world solar flight has wings longer than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet yet weighs only about as much as a large car.
The head of the Arab League said Thursday he is confident that Israel and the Palestinians soon will resolve a crisis over the release of long-held Palestinian prisoners and extend their U.S.-brokered peace negotiations beyond an April deadline.
Errek Jett, the district attorney in Lawrence County, Ala., said that Jose Manuel Martinez, 51, told investigators he carried out the crimes working as an enforcer for a drug cartel. Jett said they believe Martinez because of the details he gave investigators.
Michelle Thompson vividly recalls attending a festival in Las Vegas and watching 42 straight short films without seeing a single black face on the screen.
Not long ago, Jordan Spieth was the definition of a long shot. In August, when odds on the Masters opened at Las Vegas sports books, Spieth’s potential was a rumor
Editor’s Note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state.
The Las Vegan wins his first world title, defeating Khabib Allakhverdiev by unanimous decision to capture the WBA regular junior welterweight title at the MGM Grand Garden on the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley undercard.
“It’s a great time to be in the entertainment business in Vegas,” Ross Mollison says.
At the Horizon Drive overpass crossing above U.S. Highway 95, X marks the spot for a hidden treasure — a big diamond that will save motorists their time.
It looks like a monolith carved from mortar and molded of chrome, a giant spaceship in the middle of the UNLV campus.
Move over, “The Poseidon Adventure.” Fat chance, “Earthquake.” Don’t even try, “Armageddon.”
It’s been an unusual ride for local physical therapist Matt Smith.
Las Vegas is gearing up for the countdown to Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday with planned tributes and pre-orders of ’Ol Blue Eyes’ favorite, Jack Daniel’s.
Two noon-hour diners at the crowded El Sombrero Cafe had just finished their heaping plates of Mexican food when they rose from the table, turned to the busy waitress, and wrapped her in warm hugs.
Dear Savvy Senior: What can you tell me about reverse mortgages? I was considering one last year, but now I hear they are more difficult to get. — Ready to Reverse
Four years of my professional life were spent working in hospice. Director of bereavement and pastoral care. Simply put, four of the best years of my life. Creative, energizing and a daily learning curve. A downer? Absolutely not! Quite the opposite. More hopeful, inspirational, meaningful.
The American Heart Association held its 24th annual Heart Ball at Mandalay Bay’s South Seas Ballroom April 4. The honoree was John O’Reilly, chairman and CEO of O’Reilly Group LLC. He received the Heart of the Community Award for making a difference in Las Vegas through his leadership and generosity.
Nobody could remember the last time Miguel Cotto looked so happy.
More than 130 family members of missing military personnel from four states met in Las Vegas on Saturday to remember their loved ones and meet with Department of Defense staff to discuss finding and recovering remains from battlefields going back to World War II.
Politics can never be removed from the courts, not even if judicial elections are replaced with an appointment system.