The road to New York’s Metropolitan Opera leads through Denver — at least for the four winners of Nevada’s Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, who compete Feb. 7 and 8 at Denver University’s Gates Concert Hall for the chance to sing at the Met’s Grand Finals Concert.
A rare frilled shark caught by a fisherman in Australia looks like something out of “Alien,” but has more in common with “Jurassic Park.”
It seems that just about everybody’s doing small plates/tapas these days. But I can’t think of anybody doing it better than David Clawson Restaurant.
Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon, who ranks third in all-time race wins, said Thursday the 2015 season will be his last as a full-time driver.
Caesars Palace showcase a sober-minded and almost elegiac look back at 46 years of Elton John hits.
Two men are in hot water in northwest Wisconsin where they are accused of burglarizing ice shacks before the car they were driving on a frozen lake broke through the ice and sank.
Many mistakenly believe they need to spend years in school or have a vast amount of work experience under their belt before they can start earning a decent salary; this is simply a misconception. There are a number of incredibly lucrative jobs out there that don’t even require a college degree.
The GolfBoard aims to draw a younger demographic to golf. So far, the only place you can ride one around the fairways is at Las Vegas National Golf Club.
United States women’s team goalkeeper Hope Solo has been suspended for 30 days by U.S Soccer following an incident during a training camp.
I had a shallow conversation with “Backdoor Teen Mom” Farrah Abraham about how she wants to show off a new line of adult products during a toga party at Ghostbar Dayclub on Saturday.
Bill Boyd said a 1983 decision to take over management of the troubled Stardust at the request of the Gaming Control Board was an easy choice.
Having portrayed the male lead in his two most recent series, Henderson’s Thomas Dekker is enjoying life a little farther down the call sheet on Fox’s quirky detective dramedy “Backstrom.”
Hundreds of residents were displaced from their homes after a massive fire ripped through a New Jersey apartment complex, officials said, but no serious injuries were reported.
The man who administers a program teaching small-business people how to get contracts from Clark County, the same guy who owes the county $57,874, managed to scrape enough dough together to make $5,665 in campaign donations to mostly county candidates.
As the final buzzer sounded, New Mexico guard Hugh Greenwood let out a scream. He then appeared to blow a kiss in the direction of the UNLV student section. It was an emotional release after what was a stressful day for the senior.
A humble roundworm is leading the race in artificial intelligence, showing that it may be possible one day to upload our brains to a computer.
See how easy it is to enjoy the big game and protect the environment as well.
When it came to choosing how to fulfill her school’s Pay It Forward project, Goolsby Elementary fifth-grader Juliana Puppel knew just what she wanted to do: make life better for shelter dogs. She readily admits to having an ulterior motive: If she could prove herself responsible, her parents had agreed to get her a puppy.
It may have started as a male-dominated profession, but after more than 30 years in the trade, Jamie Ann Yocono has proved that women can thrive in the woodworking industry. Besides making a profit from her work, she has inspired a generation of women and men to pursue creative projects through the classes she teaches at her business, Wood It Is!, 2267 W. Gowan Road, No. 106.
Local entrepreneur, civil rights activist and gaming pioneer Sarann Knight Preddy died Dec. 22 at the age of 94, but she still has quite a few tales to tell in a book she was wrapping up when she became ill around Thanksgiving.
Green Valley High School students are set to bring the sea to the desert. The school, 460 Arroyo Grande Blvd., plans to perform “The Little Mermaid” at 7 p.m. Jan. 29-31, 2 p.m. Jan. 31 and 7 p.m. Feb. 5-7. The show originally ran on Broadway from 2008 to 2012.
UNLV’s basketball team was left with little choice against New Mexico on Wednesday night. It had to beat the Lobos. And still, it couldn’t. The fall continues. The losses pile up.
Intent to silence the crowd, Hugh Greenwood accomplished his goal shot by shot. Greenwood hit six 3-pointers and scored 22 points to lift New Mexico to a 71-69 victory over UNLV on Wednesday night, sending the Rebels to their sixth loss in seven games.
How on earth, with nearly 10 seconds remaining in the game and UNLV down by two points, does Jelan Kendrick end up with the ball?
Air Force Airman Brittaney N. Ponce graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio. Ponce is the daughter of Jose N. Ponce of Perris, Calif., and Rebecca Burns of Las Vegas and the stepdaughter of Kelly Burns of Las Vegas.
During their years of teaching math classes part-time at UNLV, student Chris Southworth and graduate Jessica Robinson have seen many freshman students struggle with basic equations. Math classes become so problematic that they’ve witnessed students resort to switching majors, completely altering their career paths and their lives.
There were plenty of growing pains on the Del Sol boys basketball team’s journey to this point. The Dragons endured in-fighting among teammates, selfish play and all the other negatives that losing brings out.
Trevon Abdullah was alone underneath the basket midway through the fourth quarter when he went up for a one-handed dunk and clanked it off the front of the rim.
Most people who make the decision to retire have to figure out how to live on fewer dollars, but that is not always the case with Nevada state and local government employees, a new analysis has found.
