The Rev. Jesse Jackson wants President Barack Obama to do something about the lack of diversity in the tech industry, calling it “the next step in the civil rights movement.”
Southern Nevada’s health care system is woefully deficient in a great many medical specialties, from mental health to pediatrics. No one is more aware of the challenges of obtaining adequate treatment than the parents of autistic children.
Instead of voting to authorize a legally questionable, highly dubious lawsuit against President Barack Obama, they could have stood up, said enough is enough, and voted no.
A whirlwind few weeks in which 51s catcher Kevin Plawecki was promoted to Triple-A for the first time and represented the United States in the All-Star Futures Game was enough to make his head spin.
The former world champion has lost two straight fights and hopes to stope his slide when he faces Argentina’s Diego Chaves Saturday in a 10-round welterweight main event at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on HBO.
Las Vegas police responded to an east valley shooting Thursday night that happened on Bonanza Road near Nellis Boulevard.
Care for a tease? Peter Jackson’s final installment in the “Lord of the Rings” series, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” has all of Middle Earth abuzz with this latest teaser trailer.
Water providers from four western states and the federal government announced an $11 million agreement Thursday to fund projects meant to counteract critically low water levels in the Colorado River basin, which supplies water to about 40 million people in seven states.
Less than a month before classes begin, the Clark County School District is short 650 teachers, according to officials who struggle almost every summer to recruit the army of teachers needed at its 357 schools.
The gloves that boxing great Muhammad Ali wore in his legendary 1971 fight against Joe Frazier in what became known as the Fight of the Century sold at auction on Thursday for almost $400,000.
Aerosmith books are starting to fill up a shelf. This is being discussed because the Aerosmith tour stopping at the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday will be followed Oct. 7 by guitarist Joe Perry’s memoir, “Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith.”
Veteran casting director Marion Dougherty will posthumously receive the 2014 Governors Award from the Television Academy at the Aug. 24 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the Academy announced on Thursday.
Killer parties almost killed Craig Finn. The Hold Steady frontman once attested to as much in song. But that was a decade ago.
Baseball fans were still trying to sort out the dizzying deals for postseason aces Jon Lester and John Lackey, Home Run Derby champ Yoenis Cespedes and All-Star shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera when they were treated to a most curious sight Thursday.
It sounds like a hangover record, brought on not by too much booze (though certainly there was plenty of that) but by an overindulgence of life in the music business.
The inaugural Route 91 Harvest festival, featuring Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Dwight Yoakam and many others, takes over The Lot across from the Luxor on Oct. 3-5.
The Las Vegas Justice Court will not accept restitution on behalf of the Clark County district attorney’s office for criminal cases starting Friday, the county reported.
The director of the Nevada Department of Health And Human Services on Thursday said his department takes responsibility for the institutional abuse allegations of juvenile inmates at the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko. Romaine Gilliland spoke during a hearing on the issue held by Clark County Family Court Judge William Voy.
Perched among the tops of pine trees blanketing Onyx Peak, I stand on a metal platform. There’s no way down the platform nested on a single, steel trunk. No stairs. No ladder. But there is a way down.
The frail, quiet woman who appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday was a far cry from the raging killer police described in this week’s deadly home invasions. Natasha Galenn Jackson faces eight felony charges for her alleged role in Tuesday’s random attacks that left a man dead and a woman in critical condition.
A Las Vegas man who crashed into an Egg & I restaurant last year and injured 10 people was sentenced Thursday to 6 to 20 years in prison.
In one case involving battery charges, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace William Kephart ordered Carmitchel back to court next week “by any means necessary.”
Friday is International Beer Day. Here are 5 ways you can celebrate with food as well as drink.
A man who donated to a South Dakota museum a slightly damaged acoustic guitar played by Elvis Presley that is at the center of a custody battle insisted Thursday he had the right to give it away because he owned it.
When Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen & Bar opened in Times Square a couple of years ago, The New York Times ran a review that became famous for its snark. Yeah, we’re not going to do that.
Police say a costumed teenager who was found bloody and unconscious during Comic-Con was likely the victim of a fall, and the injuries weren’t caused by an assault.
“Jay Sarno: King of Goddesses” will be the topic of the next Oscar’s Monologue dinner from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Oscar’s Beef, Booze & Broads at the Plaza, 1 Main St. Dinner.
Everyone’s favorite ogre returns as “Shrek the Musical” begins a 12-performance run Wednesday at Super Summer Theatre at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
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Southwest Vegas food hall closing only a year after opening
‘Top Chef’ stars to close Las Vegas Strip pop-up restaurant
Wynn’s plans to build a third tower on Strip still alive
Fontainebleau signs ‘once in a generation talent’ to residency deal
The Eagles add more shows to series at Sphere in Las Vegas