Some 5,342 union employees who work at Clark County will receive retroactive 2 percent raises, a $4.48 million expense to the county.
Helldorado Days, the city’s annual five-day tribute to its Wild West heritage, includes a parade that will close downtown streets Saturday.
Hundreds of tourism workers rallied at the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement in downtown Las Vegas to celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week, technically a nine-day observance that nearly 15 million tourism industry employees nationwide are sharing.
A new ranking of the world’s most powerful city brands puts Las Vegas tied with San Francisco at eighth in the world out of the 57 major cities studied.
One of the world’s most endangered species took a small step away from oblivion over the past year, as the wild population of Devil’s Hole pupfish nearly tripled and researchers made strides on a captive-breeding program. But with fewer than 100 of the tiny fish left in the only known habitat on Earth — a single water-filled cavern in Nye County, about 90 miles west of Las Vegas — no one is popping champagne just yet.
Ian Ziering will dance in “Chippendales, ” like he did last year, when all of these topless photos came to bare.
The Gaming Control Board told its license holders Tuesday that they cannot participate in Nevada’s medical marijuana business. In an industry notice posted to the Control Board’s website, the agency said the federal government views distribution, possession and sale of marijuana as a crime.
The sexual health information app “Hula” is getting a name change after receiving several complaints of cultural insensitivity toward Native Hawaiians.
Gaming industry icon Burton Cohen died Monday at his home in the Regency Towers in the Las Vegas Country Club, sources tell the Review-Journal. During his 50 years in Las Vegas, Cohen ran a number of major casinos, including Desert Inn, Dunes and Frontier.
The nation’s largest veterans organization and senior Republican senators are calling for the resignation of Gen. Eric Shinseki as head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, prompted by reports of lagging services and blockbuster allegations about veterans deaths in Phoenix. But Shinseki still enjoys the support of Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader from Nevada who says the Cabinet member should be commended and not criticized as he attempts to lead an agency beset by challenges brought on by the end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The highlight of this week’s episode of AMC’s “Mad Men,” at least for baseball fans, was when Don Draper sang a few uneven bars of “Meet the Mets,” the team’s time-honored theme song.
Shares of Twitter Inc sank nearly 18 percent to a new low in frenzied trading on Tuesday, wiping out more than $4 billion of its market value, as early investors sold stock in the messaging service for the first time after a six-month “lock-up” expired.
Animal rights group PETA is appealing the rejection from the Utah Department of Transportation of the memorial sign for 720 turkeys that died in a truck accident on April 24.
U.S. home prices rose at a slightly slower pace in the 12 months that ended in March, a sign that weak sales have begun to restrain the housing market’s sharp price gains. Data provider CoreLogic says home prices in California have jumped 17.2 percent from a year ago. Nevada, at 15.5 percent, has posted the second-largest gain.
The state water authority in California plans to alleviate drought and drylands by engineering an aqueduct that can send water uphill.
Tucked into the sunbaked rolling hills of Brazil’s midwest, Araras is home to what is thought to be the largest single group of people suffering from a rare inherited skin disease known as xeroderma pigmentosum, or “XP.”
Clark County officials have extended an air quality advisory for dust until 5 p.m. Tuesday. The advisory had been scheduled to expire Tuesday morning.
“Under the Electric Sky” is a new 3-D film about the Electric Daisy Carnival that’s a headfirst plunge into the audio-visual wonderland that is the mammoth dance music festival.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. announced a multipronged debt restructuring effort to deal with the most pressing portion of the company’s gaming industry-high $23 billion of long-term debt.
A man was stabbed during an apparent robbery in the east valley Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said. Officers responded to calls near East Sahara Avenue and Lamb Boulevard and found the victim with a stab wound.
A Tennessee state senator who compared the federal health care law to the forced transportation of Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust appeared to make light of the firestorm about his comments this week in a blog post on Tuesday.
The opening months of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot users try to make the drug’s intoxicating oil in crude home-based laboratories.
Jimmy Ellis, a heavyweight champion who sparred with an up-and-coming Muhammad Ali and later fought some of the era’s best boxers, died Tuesday. He was 74.
Several men exiled from Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect are warning a judge that requiring a man to pay his ex-wives’ attorney fees after winning a recent custody suit would have a chilling effect on others who have been kicked out and want their children back.
MSNBC is apologizing for a Cinco de Mayo segment that featured a staff member onscreen wearing a sombrero, shaking maracas and taking a swig from a bottle of tequila.
The NBA says Los Angeles Clippers President Andy Roeser is taking an indefinite leave of absence as the franchise tries to stabilize following owner Donald Sterling’s ban.
Iran will target American aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf should a war between the two countries ever break out, the naval chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Tuesday as the country completes work on a large-scale mock-up of a U.S. carrier.
Investigators suspect that a snapped clip sent eight aerial acrobats plummeting 20 feet or more during a daring performance, an experience one injured performer likened to a “plunge into darkness.”
Three skydivers spent about four hours atop the World Trade Center’s signature skyscraper taking in sights before parachuting off it, they said Tuesday in detailing a surreptitious stunt that raised questions about security and left them facing felony charges.
Las Vegas police are looking for a man who escaped from an Oregon mental health facility and is suspected of killing his grandfather. Metro police said they believe Steven Woodard, 43, killed an elderly man in a home near Tropicana Avenue and Eastern Avenue in the Southeast valley.
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