In a Friday ceremony Building D at the College of Southern Nevada’s West Charleston campus was named for Paul Meacham.
Rossi Ralenkotter, president and CEO of the organization that markets the city, told an audience at Preview 2015 on Friday that 45 million visitors will be the new benchmark and he expects to hit that “within the next few years.” If the goal is achieved, it would produce 37,000 new tourism industry jobs in Southern Nevada.
A 34-year-old man shot and killed by a North Las Vegas police officer in July had a lethal dose of methamphetamine in his system when he died, a detective testified Friday.
During his State of the League address at the downtown Phoenix Convention Center on Friday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell accepts that 2014 was not a great year.
Considering all of the hubbub after the opening of a White Castle in Las Vegas last week, we decided we’d try a taste test. We’d do a blind tasting of the real thing, the frozen sliders and those made using a copycat recipe.
AT&T opened a new concept store in Las Vegas this week — one of the first 50 in the U.S. What sets the AT&T store at 710 E. Flamingo Road apart from the other conventional retail stores is the open design, lifestyle “zones” and community tables where customers can experience and play with the different technology.
Chamille McElroy of Americare Health & Nutrition placed a call to a woman in Lebanon, Oregon, but instead of a “hello” she heard what sounded like a violent struggle on the other end of the line.
Nevada’s gaming revenue recovery from the recession took a slight setback in 2014, ending a four-year uptick.
Pete Cicconi has been bodybuilding for 30 years and has heard of people using mother’s milk during their workouts.
Attorney General Adam Laxalt met with Gov. Brian Sandoval to discuss a lawsuit Nevada joined with 25 other states to challenge President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration and decided to continue with the legal action, the attorney general’s office said Friday.
While the upcoming Asian-American sitcom has been praised for its potential to rebut stereotypes, its social media team flubbed when it tweeted a graphic featuring caricatures of different races.
Javier Palma, owner of Marino’s Pizza in Irving, has been making pies for 12 years and each slice must be really good because people are willing to break the law to get their hands on it.
Las Vegas voters won’t get a chance to weigh in on using public money to build a controversial downtown soccer stadium, at least not yet.
Promoter Bob Arum expects a fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to be set in the next few days.
The deal to see the film, which has a leading nine Oscar nominations, is available through Feb. 5 at five valley theaters.
With all eyes on the Super Bowl and the billions of dollars wagered legally — and illegally — on the game, Sen. John McCain says Congress should hold hearings on whether to expand legalized sports betting that now largely is limited to sports books in Nevada.
A man is in critical condition after Las Vegas police said a woman’s ex-boyfriend stabbed her current boyfriend and then stole a car from the couple.
The long skeleton was found in 2006 by some local farmers digging for a fishpond in Qijiang city in China’s southwestern Chongqing province.
Slot machine maker International Game Technology said three independent proxy advisory firms voiced their support for the company’s $6.4 billion buyout by Italy-based lottery giant GTECH Holdings.
Oregon State University’s main library just went viral, and not because of its state-of-the-art computer lab.
Tiger Woods, his game sliding from bad to worse, shot 11-over-par 82 Friday and failed to make the cut at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Given the project code name, EXACTO, it aims to create the first small caliber bullet that could steer itself.
The flight attendant, Kim Do Hee, who served the offending macadamia nuts to former Korean Air executive Heather Cho testified in court Friday that Cho shoved her, threw a tablet to her chest and called her a pejorative term for female dog after becoming angry over the service.
In the photo that accompanied many of the stories about his death this week, Jeremy Huber is rocking a thick strip of hair on his upper lip. An 18-year-old freshman at Johns Hopkins. With strong mustache game.
The 20-year-old singer admits in the almost-two-minute video that he felt awkward and like people were judging him after an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
Las Vegas is full of mysteries, even if you’ve lived here your entire life. That said, we want to solve them, so we asked what questions about Las Vegas you’ve always wanted answered. We’ll tackle them one by one in Knowing Vegas.
Like everyone else, Secretary of State John Kerry needs to make sure the sidewalk around his home gets shoveled.
The Clark County district attorney’s office said Thursday it will not prosecute a former Bullhead City, Ariz. police sergeant for an alleged sexual assault in Laughlin last October. The announcement came at a Laughlin Justice Court arraignment hearing for Jesse Hoag, 37.
Witnesses testified on Friday that they saw the apparently lifeless body of a man in an industrial area near Aaron Hernandez’s home in June 2013, hours after the former New England Patriots player is accused of committing murder.