Should voters approve a 2 percent tax on businesses earmarked for Nevada public schools, Rebecca Merrihew fears that she could lose the company she has owned for 15 years. Red Rock Insulation brings in between $3 million and $4 million a year in revenue, and Merrihew estimates that the tax could cost her between $24,000 and $32,000 annually.
Las Vegas stock car veteran tops 230 mph in final qualifications to become fastest Indy rookie.
With the midterm elections less than six months away and Democrats rightly feeling the heat on multiple fronts, it’s hardly a surprise that their most fearless leaders, President Barack Obama and Sen. Harry Reid, once again are raising the temperature on climate change rhetoric. The strategy is obvious: If you can’t win the arguments that Americans actually care about, then throw out as many other distractions as possible to deflect attention from those arguments.
A street performer in Ann Arbor, Mich., is gaining a lot of attention this week after a video of his bit spread online.
If, God forbid, you come down with cancer, pray your case is handled in the same manner as Maria Shaffer’s.
Todd duBoef doesn’t believe in offices. That’s why his space at Top Rank — the Las Vegas-based boxing promotion company — is more like a lounge with comfy couches along with a slab on four legs that looks like a granite kitchen counter covered with papers.
From Houston to Manila, doctors and nurses are recruited for lucrative postings in Saudi Arabia, where MERS was first identified in 2012.
Jordin Sparks and Lance Bass host Red Carpet LIVE!, which features exclusive red carpet access, including celebrity arrivals, interviews and musical performances.
A queen bee migrated to student George Neal’s Nissan Micra outside of his home in Hampshire, England, and the rest of the hive followed.
The nightly improv comedy “Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding” is an ensemble work that doesn’t depend on any one person. Except it sort of does.
It has long been known that dogs have a stronger sense of smell than humans. While humans have roughly five million olfactory cells in their noses, dogs have about 200 million.
Trainer Art Sherman made no threats about the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner passing on a chance to become horse racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner, but he suggested it was a possibility.
The state’s insurance exchange has a big decision to make this week, and observers are split on how they want to see the choices play out.
The commercial cargo ship Dragon left the space station on Sunday, heading home with nearly 2 tons of science experiments and old equipment.
The 51s won their sixth straight game Saturday, defeating the El Paso Chihuahuas 6-4 in a Pacific Coast League game at El Paso, Texas.
Conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has won the Children’s Choice Book Award for author of the year for his book, “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims,” a story about a history teacher who time travels to have adventures with historical Americans.
Because it has always had a few residents to watch over it during its down cycles, the ghost town retains a few original streets, where about 50 weathered wooden structures remain.
The last of tens of thousands of evacuees returned home Saturday after firefighters scoured charred hillsides north of San Diego to guard against a resurgence of flames that ripped through the region this week.
“Locke” is just 85 minutes of Tom Hardy driving a BMW from Birmingham to London. And it’s terrific.
The first crisis involved the use of a Michael Jackson hologram. The second issue was settled when the U.S. State Department issued a work visa to Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte.
Every two weeks, an Ohio man drives 4,200 miles to save unwanted dogs from overpopulated shelters in the South, packs them up in a semitrailer and finds them loving homes in the northeastern United States.
Who doesn’t love driving a golf cart? Most of them are nimble and quick with a tight turning radius. The electric ones have a quiet takeoff, just like a Prius.
Each year, Las Vegas residents turn to what some claim is the best remedy for 100-degree temperatures: a dip in the pool. It’s especially appreciated when children are out of school — good for keeping them occupied and a good physical activity for everyone.
A federal judge has banned a Texas felon authorities say is tied to the anti-government “sovereign citizens” movement from meddling in the high-profile legal battle between Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
The news hit John Richy like a fastball that missed its spot. Square in the heart. “There were no words, nothing you could really say,” Richy recalled. “It was so tough to hear. Devastating. Tragic.”
Don’t let the title fool you. “Mad Men,” the popular AMC series, isn’t just about the men who work in a Manhattan ad agency in the ’60s.
Just as the recession began to grip Las Vegas in 2008, gaming executive Terry Lanni made a prediction.
Two years after a Clark County judge gave a Las Vegas man probation for an attempted murder conviction, he is now behind bars awaiting trial for murder. Now some are questioning whether Judge Ken Cory’s leniency from the bench kept a violent criminal on the streets.
Editor’s Note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state.
Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic presidential choice for 2016.
