As the GOP strives to capture full control of Congress, Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada has opened his wallet wide for party candidates running for the Senate and a handful in the U.S. House.
Reviewjournal.com, the website for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has been named a finalist for two 2014 Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards.
Allegiant Travel Co. recorded its 47th straight profitable quarter despite a decline in earnings for the third quarter that ended Sept. 30.
The dropping water on Lake Mead is particularly sobering if you haven’t visited the Overton Arm or Echo Bay Marina in a while. The once thriving resort destination is a sad sight, although that doesn’t mean there aren’t fish to be caught.
ATLANTIC CITY — Trump Entertainment Resorts is dropping its threat to close Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal casino on Nov. 13.
In July 1965, two gigantic fossilized dinosaur arms replete with menacing claws were unearthed in the remote southern Gobi desert of Mongolia.
Former UNLV and NBA basketball player Jackie Robinson plans a ground breaking for Wednesday to mark the construction start of a $1.4 billion arena, hotel and shopping project that has quietly moved ahead.
The last of four defendants who participated in four convenience store robberies in 2012 was sentenced this week to more 16 years in federal prison.
Some shoppers at an Oregon drug store were surprised by a bear cub scurrying down the aisles.
Regional casino operator Full House Resorts put itself up for sale Wednesday, more than a week after a shareholder group surfaced that was seeking to remake the Las Vegas-based company’s board and management.
Hundreds of athletes at the University of North Carolina enrolled in classes they didn’t have to attend and received artificially inflated grades in far-reaching academic fraud over an 18-year period, according to results of an independent investigation.
A World Series opener involving the San Francisco Giants set a record low TV rating for the second time in three seasons.
Acclaimed director Jonathan Demme will be shooting the shows for an upcoming concert film.
Nevada’s fire marshal says his review of nearly a dozen fires at homes with NV Energy’s smart meters found the meters themselves are not starting the fires.
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks erased earlier gains to close lower on Wednesday as a shooting at the Canadian parliament unnerved investors, Boeing and Biogen sold off following results, and energy stocks fell along with oil prices.
Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “St. Vincent,” “John Wick,” “Ouija,” “Dear White People,” “16 Stones,” “23 Blast” and “Art and Craft”:
Caesars Entertainment Corp. is angling to build a $1 billion hotel-casino development in the Philippines in an effort to break into the Asian gaming market.
ATLANTIC CITY — The CEO of Caesars Entertainment said Wednesday a new $125 million meeting center his company is building will help define Atlantic City’s future, even as he pointedly refused to say whether his company is done closing casinos there.
Faith Lutheran is the South’s No. 1 seed in the Division I-A state tournament and faces Churchill County in a state semifinal at noon Tuesday at the Reno Tennis Center. The Meadows meets Truckee in the other semifinal.
Terry Fator’s house full of rescued dogs has grown to seven. The Mirage headliner said he considers this one “a miracle.”
Retailers will add up to 7,600 seasonal jobs in Nevada during the upcoming holidays, officials for the Retail Association of Nevada said Wednesday.
Nye County sheriff’s deputies are being commended for showing restraint in a recent confrontation that could have ended with deadly results.
Canadian police said on Wednesday they have charged a woman with concealing the bodies of six infants in a storage locker, but are not handling the incident as a homicide investigation.
A Clark County grand jury has indicted a 32-year-old man on a murder charge in connection with a shooting that left another man dead outside a Las Vegas apartment earlier this year, prosecutors said Wednesday.
At least 20 sixth-graders at a North Texas school have been treated for bee stings in an attack during an outdoor physical education class.
The 74-year-old man who went missing early Wednesday morning has been found, Henderson police said.
In the animated “Mike Tyson Mysteries” (10:30 p.m. Monday, Adult Swim), the former champ travels the country in a van dubbed the Mystery Mobile and assists strangers with the help of his homeschooled Korean daughter, the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry and a foul-mouthed, hard-drinkin’, hooker-lovin’ pigeon who used to be a man.
The five players to watch in the UNLV-Utah State football game on Saturday.
If Democrats lose the Senate in November, what happens?
The suspect involved in an armed robbery Wednesday morning, causing authorities to order Ronnow Elementary School, near Washington Avenue and Pecos Road, to be locked down as Las Vegas police searched for him, has been arrested.