Green Valley’s Keola Paragas has been stingy on the mound all season for the Gators, but the senior left-hander hasn’t always gotten a ton of offensive support.
For fans of basketball recruiting, the next three months are the busiest time of the year. And the most exciting to follow.
Luke Logan shot a 5-over-par 76 at Las Vegas National on Tuesday to help Boulder City’s boys golf team to victory in a Sunrise League match.
There is a kitchen gadget for practically every culinary need.
Stars from the topless revue “Fantasy” in Luxor met up with servicemen after more than 100 troops saw their naked-ish skills in action for free during Military Appreciation Month.
A confession: I don’t want to see it as badly as I do Manny Pacquiao pummel Adrien Broner, but time will pass, and September will arrive, and if that is indeed when Floyd Mayweather Jr. continues his six-fight contract with Showtime, the only opponent worth a pay-per-view receipt again is Marcos Maidana.
Clark County commissioners voted to change the way medical marijuana licenses are divvied up in a unanimous vote that took from Henderson and North Las Vegas, gave big to the county and contributed a slight bump to the city of Las Vegas. In a move by Commissioners Steve Sisolak and Chris Giunchigliani, the number of medical marijuana licenses was revised based on population.
Beautiful Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area provides scenic splendor and wide-ranging recreational opportunities just beyond the urbanized area of Las Vegas. Little wonder it attracts more than a million visitors annually. Though many visitors are locals who frequently return, many others come from across the country or around the world.
Northbound lanes of Interstate 15 reopened Tuesday evening after a fire at a bridge construction site on closed the artery connecting Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
In an effort to keep up with eating trends, Subway is adding exotic flavors to the menu and leaning out meat slices.
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.