Greek police say two Russians, both aged 23, were arrested Sunday for scaling a wall on the Acropolis and damaging it while doing acrobatics.
Downtown Summerlin’s biggest phase to date — a 1.6 million-square-foot shopping, dining and entertainment complex — opens to the public on Thursday. But this project is way more than a mall. It began as an economic messenger heralding the dawn of Southern Nevada’s Great Recession.
The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District has a new executive director. Former executive director Jeanne Goodrich retired at the end of the summer. Her successor, Ronald R. Heezen, Ph.D., started in early September.
Growing up in an Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Southern California, retired U.S. Army Cpl. Wesley Leon-Barrientos wasn’t much of an ice hockey player. He didn’t follow the Kings that much, even after they traded for Gretzky.
Russian police say a suicide bomber blew himself up in the capital of Chechnya, killing four police officers and wounding four others.
The 70th birthday celebration of Roy Horn, on the 11th anniversary of the near-fatal tiger attack, included an emotional twist involving Michael Jackson and several surprises.
From the time members drew up an official charter in 1964, Westminster Presbyterian Church has prospered by being intimate, diverse, friendly, liberal, tolerant, charitable and quirky.
The expansion of triage beds for the mentally ill in Southern Nevada may finally come to fruition. It’s been nearly four months since Gov. Brian Sandoval in mid-June acted to mitigate some of the most immediate problems facing the state’s troubled mental health system. One of the measures addressed the crisis local emergency rooms are experiencing — a large number of mentally ill patients seeking care the facilities are ill-equipped to provide.
Animal control officer Wanda Snell knows what she saw: A veterinarian inserted a needle into the black-and-brown mutt and injected a chemical meant to euthanize the dog no one had adopted. The animal moved a bit and was still and quiet by the time she left the shelter for home.
One of the most ambitious sewer line projects in Clark County’s history kicks off in earnest this month and you know what that means: There are going to be some street disruptions in the project’s path.
The city of Folsom has completed the first section of the “Johnny Cash Trail” that will pay tribute to the country music icon and his 1968 album “At Folsom Prison.”
Soviet and Russian actor and director Yuri Lyubimov, founder of Moscow’s renowned Taganka Theater, which he led for more than four decades, has died at age 97.
A powerful typhoon is heading toward Tokyo after lashing southern Japan, where it killed at least one U.S. airman on Okinawa island and left two others missing. The Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Phanfone was off the coast of southwestern Japan Sunday night, packing winds of up to 90 miles per hour.
The cult of Tony Hsieh developed a crack this past week, and that’s a good thing. Good for Las Vegans jaded by decades of hot air of an endless string of “visionaries,” and good for Hsieh and his acolytes as they attempt to put down actual business roots in downtown’s hard-packed soil.
A minor earthquake shook the ground just south of Sloan and was felt in parts of the valley early Sunday morning.
Las Vegas’ real estate is among the most interesting in the country and reality TV knows it. Real estate professionals are making second careers by appearing on camera to highlight some of the best deals.
All but left for dead one week into the season, the Dallas Cowboys are suddenly surging by riding running back DeMarco Murray and following a bulldozing offensive line.
If Bermane Stiverne has learned anything during his brief reign as a heavyweight champion, it’s patience. Stiverne, who won the vacant World Boxing Council title May 10 with a sixth-round technical knockout of Chris Arreola, has a mandatory title defense against undefeated Deontay Wilder.
Bookmakers’ eyes were smiling after the Fighting Irish rallied late for a 17-14 comeback win over Stanford on college football’s Separation Saturday.
With a simple flick of his wrists, Alec Martinez joined a very exclusive club last June.
There is this theory about preseason college football polls: That while they might be good for creating dialogue and definitely profitable for those magazines that release their own Top 25 rankings in August, they unfairly create a perception of which teams are best in a given year.