Blanca Gamez of Las Vegas did a double-take entering the Oval Office on Wednesday. It was President Barack Obama himself who opened the door and ushered her in along with five others to talk about immigration.
Liberty girls basketball coach Chad Kapanui gave his players one simple message before Wednesday afternoon’s game against Canyon Springs.
Southwest Gas will meet with customers affected by an outage at 9 p.m., and Henderson is offering free showers.
At its heart, the World of Concrete show is about construction. But as a Reno company exhibiting at the 41st annual trade show has proved, it’s also about tearing things down, busting them up and smashing them to bits.
UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez announced his first recruiting class on Wednesday. He expects the newcomers to compete for playing time right away.
Glenn Murphy doesn’t just teach in “Evolution: The Whole Life-on-Earth Story,” “Bodies: The Whole Blood-Pumping Story” and “Disgusting Science” — he entertains, too, with a back-and-forth format that seems like a conversation between author and reader.
”In Lieu of Therapy” is a collection of journal entries, religious reflections, short stories and poetry written over a lifetime by Las Vegas writer Rena C. Winters. Winters is also the author of “Smurfs: The Inside Story of the Little Blue Characters.”
Brian Williams, the most-watched evening-news anchor on television today, has acknowledged that he falsely claimed to have been on a helicopter that was shot down by enemy fire while on an NBC News reporting trip in Iraq in 2003.
Literary happenings coming up include poetry performances at First Friday, Painted Stories at the Bootlegger and a free creative writing series.
The United States government has taken a new, though preliminary, step to encourage commercial development of the moon.
The Clark County School District saw more than 18,000 students apply for magnet school programs next fall, nearly 2,000 more than applied last year, officials said. The application deadline, which ended Tuesday, had been pushed to February as district officials worked out an evolving transportation plan for those students accepted to magnet programs.
Disney and Lucasfilm have tapped Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Jones to star in the “Star Wars” standalone movie from director Gareth Edwards.
They say love is a fur letter word, but not for Nevada — one of the least pup-loving states in the country.
Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Letroy Guion was arrested Tuesday night in his hometown of Starke, Fla., for felony possession of marijuana and a firearm.
UNLV football announced its 2015 recruiting class on Twitter Wednesday morning. Check out the newest Rebels.
A man is suspected of killing an elderly couple, whose mummified bodies were found in a trash bin in a Las Vegas Valley storage unit, and stealing retirement checks from them for more than a decade.
Metro released more information Wednesday on a drug house officers uncovered during an in-progress burglary the day before.
A bill that would expand the types of health professionals who can initiate involuntary commitments and identify those deemed not a danger and eligible for release would help alleviate overcrowding at hospital emergency rooms, a state health official told Nevada legislators Wednesday.
A former Navy technician with a shaved head has become the go-to hair stylist for his 2-year-old daughter.
A lot of bipartisan support was expressed at a legislative hearing Wednesday for a bill that would expand rollover bond authority for local school construction without raising property taxes, but provisions in Senate Bill 119 that would exempt school and university projects from Nevada’s prevailing wage law were a “poison pill” for many Democrats and labor groups.
A two-vehicle crash that closed a North Las Vegas intersection Tuesday night left damage that will take days to repair, according to the city officials.
Temple Bar is only an hour and a half or so from Las Vegas, yet somehow has remained underutilized, if not undiscovered, by most of the city’s outdoor lovers. That reason alone would recommend it as an especially relaxing getaway destination, but there are plenty of other reasons.
With snow piling up in much of the United States, it might seem a bit early to start thinking about summer. But if you want to take a vacation on your terms, travel experts say now is the time to get the ball rolling.
Follow the link for some of the top performances from the week of Jan. 25-31.
Three teenagers face charges as adults after home invasion and sexual assault in the southwest valley, according to Las Vegas police.
“House of Cards” returns Feb. 27. But if you want a real reason to get excited about Netflix, it’s here with the first trailer for “Daredevil.”
Las Vegas leaders want a tourism improvement district in Symphony Park and they don’t much care whether anybody else likes it.
Las Vegas Councilman Bob Beers either has way too many or way too few signatures needed to put a publicly subsidized soccer stadium on the June 2 municipal election ballot, but he won’t know until at least a few more days.
Valentine’s Day is the second-busiest day of the year for restaurants (after Mother’s Day), which means Las Vegas restaurants will be exceptionally busy, so get your reservations early.