The popularity and accessibility of fantasy sports and the instant gratification delivered by new products like weekly National Football League fantasy leagues is propelling sports wagering to new heights, panelists addressing a session at the Global Gaming Expo said Wednesday.
This week marks the unofficial halfway point of the prep football season, which means it’s time to hand out the Fieldies.
Liberty has ended Canyon Springs’ football season in four of the past five seasons. The Pioneers hope to have more success in their first meeting as league foes.
Madison Bumgarner pitched a four-hitter with 10 strikeouts and Brandon Crawford hit the first grand slam by a shortstop in postseason history as the San Francisco Giants routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-0 on Wednesday night in the National League wild-card game.
A school principal said Tuesday that members of his high school’s football team were subjected to racist taunts from among a group of adults in an eastern Connecticut town where his team had just played an away game and lost.
Authorities in central California are searching for one or more suspects who broke into a Foster Farms chicken ranch and killed more than 900 birds with a golf club.
One of the perks of living in Las Vegas is that even though it’s tucked away in the desert, a short drive leads to sandy California beaches.
Yom Kippur means that high school football moves mostly to Thursday night this week. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting matchups.
This weekend, the Boulder City Hospital Foundation’s Art in the Park will kick off its 52nd annual edition.
Imagine how cool it might be if you could watch a favorite star live on stage somewhere, and then ask them a question, whenever you felt like tuning in to their tours.
In the small, modest Los Angeles suburb of Bell Gardens, neighbors of Mayor Daniel Crespo struggled Wednesday to come to terms with how the friendly, outgoing political leader could have been shot to death by his wife of 28 years.
Follow the link for some of the top performances from the week of Sept. 22-27.
Not surprisingly, the slot machine manufacturing industry believes it is still relevant in a casino world in which revenue from nongaming elements has increased its overall influence.
If you’re like most business owners, you probably feel squeezed for money. What’s more, you’re probably convinced that there’s not a lot you can do to address the above questions until you have the funds with which to address them. The reality is – that’s not true.
Teresa Lowry thinks she can make a difference in Carson City … and nobody is going to tell her differently
American soccer star Abby Wambach and a group of elite international players filed a lawsuit in Canada on Wednesday challenging plans to play the 2015 Women’s World Cup on artificial turf.
Las Vegas leaders took another stab at regulating the city’s oft-maligned “party houses” Wednesday, voting almost unanimously for a bill to crack down on sometimes raucous short-term vacation rentals.
Follow the link for the latest football coaches poll.
The Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon is one of the most significant rock art sites in North America. It is in a remote area of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. A trip there requires plenty of preparation, plus the equipment and willingness to drive a 30-mile gravel road to the trailhead. Once there, you’ll need to hike down through the slick rock, which contains a few high drop-offs into the canyon. It is a moderately strenuous hike of about 6.5 miles roundtrip with an elevation loss/gain of about 800 feet at the beginning and that much to climb back up at hike’s end.
A number of local businesses have announced projects to raise funds for breast-cancer research this month. Among them:
After a decades-long push to clear the air of dust pollution, the Las Vegas Valley is about to get a clean bill of health from federal environmental regulators.
UFC veteran Cung Le suspended nine months after positive HGH result
FBI agents have arrested former Las Vegas chiropractor Robert L. Buckhannon in a $34 million scheme to defraud hedge fund investors.
The popularity and accessibility of fantasy sports and the instant gratification delivered by new products like weekly National Football League fantasy leagues is propelling sports wagering to new heights, panelists addressing a session at the Global Gaming Expo said Wednesday.
Ammar Harris, a self-proclaimed pimp charged in a fatally shooting that left three people dead on the Las Vegas Strip, has agreed to plead guilty in a scheme to smuggle cell phones into High Desert State Prison.
If you care about peace in the Middle East, the speech Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently gave to the U.N. should be required reading. If you are an American and you voted for Barack Obama, please read it twice.
Andrew Levy, president and chief operating officer of Allegiant Travel Co, parent company of Allegiant Air, has resigned his executive position and his seat on the company’s board of directors.
The Las Vegas City Council voted Wednesday in favor of a nonbinding stadium subsidy deal with the private developer team of The Cordish Cos. and Findlay Sports & Entertainment, with the goal of eliminating public dollars being used for building the soccer stadium.
