People in Southern Nevada had mixed reactions Wednesday to the United States normalizing relations with Cuba. The news also had gaming analysts speculating on what the change could mean for casinos that once existed in Havana.
View’s editorial cartoon, Dec. 25, 2014. By F. Andrew Taylor.
A Toronto man who made headlines last month by offering a free round-the-world air ticket to a woman with the same name as his ex-girlfriend has found Ms. Right.
In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, President Obama called the cyber-attack on Sony “very serious” but suggested that the administration has yet to establish the hacker threat to moviegoers over “The Interview” as credible.
Sixty-one schools have been put on alert for a potential switch to year-round classes in 2015-16 because of crowding, according to Clark County School District officials.
Nevada state troopers brought Christmas early to 80 kids in Las Vegas Valley hospitals Wednesday before handing out blankets to homeless people.
This new self-parking car is autonomous, like Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator,” minus guns and life-threatening one-liners.
A Clark County School District bus crashed into a brick wall near Jones Boulevard and Washington Avenue on Wednesday. Nobody was hurt.
A Michigan mother faces child abuse and other charges after authorities say she gave her 10- and 12-year-old sons marijuana for medical reasons.
The struggles of Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler seem to validate all criticism of the coaching regime. Even with a defense ranked 30th in the league for the second straight year, it’s all about Cutler’s failures. Coach Marc Trestman seems to realize that and reportedly is going to bench Cutler for Jimmy Clausen.
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Michigan offered San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh a six-year, $48 million deal to return to his alma mater, according to reports Wednesday.
NEW YORK — New York state approved three casino developments worth $1.4 billion on Wednesday that promise to add more than 5,000 jobs to the sluggish upstate economy and generate around $300 million in tax revenues for state coffers, but a proposal by Las Vegas-based Caesars Entertainment did not make the cut.
On the day he was introduced as Youngstown State’s new head coach, the ugly nature of Bo Pelini’s departure from Nebraska was revealed.
Gov. Brian Sandoval today named Jerome “Jerry” Tao, Michael Patrick Gibbons, and Abbi Silver as inaugural appointments to the newly created Nevada Court of Appeals.
The Las Vegas City Council voted 4-3 to approve a stadium subsidy deal with a development partner seeking to bring a Major League Soccer team to play at the $200 million stadium.
Federal authorities have determined that hackers working on behalf of the North Korean government were behind the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to CNBC and CNN.
Santa Claus and helpers from Operation Homefront doled out 500 holiday gift bags for military families who flocked to VFW Post 10047 across from Nellis Air Force Base.
Traffic is flowing smoothly Wednesday after a crash near the U.S. Highway 95 interchange on Horizon Drive was briefly blocked, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
Jason Barthel, an officer with the Mishawaka Police Department and the owner of South Bend Uniform Company, is selling a T-shirt that reads “Breathe Easy, Don’t Break the Law.” The shirt is emblazoned with a graphic of a police officer’s badge.
A man accused of leaving the scene of a crash that killed two people on a moped has been indicted by a Clark County grand jury, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The Rebels are 6-point favorites when they host Portland tonight at the Thomas & Mack. Tip is 7:30 p.m.
A long-term plan that will allow Nevada Power to permanently end its reliance on coal-generated electricity by 2019 was approved Wednesday by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission and will be accepted by the utility, NV Energy President and CEO Paul Caudill said.
Las Vegas author Stephen Murray was born in England, raised in Southern Africa and has travelled throughout the world. The software company owner shares fictional stories of couples who tie the knot in a Las Vegas wedding chapel in his novel “The Chapel of Eternal Love: Wedding Stories from Las Vegas.”
As major theater chains scrap plans to screen “The Interview,” Sony Pictures Entertainment is said to be hastily pulling the remaining TV spots it had booked to promote the pic’s Dec. 25 release.
Defensive lineman Ray McDonald was released Wednesday by the San Francisco 49ers amid an investigation by San Jose police into McDonald on suspicion of sexual assault.
Don Dorsey, a real estate consultant from Las Vegas, got an early gift in June when he received the 2014 Silver State Tag for desert bighorn sheep, one of the West’s most unique hunting opportunities.
A meteorologist at Waco, Texas, broadcaster KCEN-TV was shot multiple times during a confrontation in the station’s parking lot on Wednesday, and the suspect is still at large, the station said.