The Las Vegas Valley’s water parks picked the ideal day for their season openers.
A journey to Japan is a lot easier — and as close as Bellagio — thanks to two new exhibits showcasing nature and art in the Land of the Rising Sun.
The Department of Veterans Affairs launched a “standardized forms” requirement this week for veterans seeking disability benefits and filing appeals, but the change has drawn criticism from the Disabled American Veterans.
Two adults and six children were displaced after a house fire Saturday evening in the southeast valley, according to the Clark County Fire Department.
A Metro SWAT unit was called to a central valley home for nearly four hours Saturday afternoon after a man locked himself in the house following a domestic dispute, Las Vegas police said.
A man died after he crashed a car into the back of a bus that was stopped on an Interstate 15 shoulder early Saturday morning, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Potential GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he was pleased with the announcement from U.S. Sen. Harry Reid that the Nevada Democrat will not run for another term.
A person died Saturday morning in a fiery, single-vehicle crash that closed an intersection for several hours, North Las Vegas police said.
A year ago, Wisconsin topped Arizona by one point in overtime to advance to the Final Four. On Saturday, the top-seeded Badgers moved on again, coasting past the second-seeded Wildcats 85-78 in the West region final at Los Angeles.
Tom Skancke has resigned his position as CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance. He’ll be replaced by GEA President Jonas Peterson.
It’s all in how you tell it, local rabbis say when it comes to engaging teens in the Passover Seder. The holiday dinner commemorates the Israelites’ liberation and exodus from Egypt where they were slaves. “The Passover story is still the same tale of freedom, but with stories that reflect the times,” suggests Rabbi Malcolm Cohen of Temple Sinai Las Vegas.
On his first quarterly earnings conference call as CEO of Full House Resorts, Dan Lee compared himself to the boy who came downstairs one Christmas morning hoping to find a pony.
Three Alabama university students were among seven people shot, several critically injured, early on Saturday morning at a raucous spring break party in Panama City Beach, Florida, and the suspected shooter was taken into custody, local police said.
At least 21 people were injured, two of them seriously, on Saturday when a Los Angeles commuter train struck a vehicle on the tracks near the University of Southern California campus, fire officials said.
Launched 25 years ago this month with the opening of Summerlin Parkway — the massive master-planned community became more than Sin City’s bedroom community.
A former Henderson police officer says he retired after complaints about his “display” of his Muslim faith — which apparently consisted of wearing a traditional head covering.
Once synonymous with one-man comedy ‘Defending the Caveman,’ Rob Becker sold the work and became a full-time ‘Cave Dad.’
The party featured a fashion show with Opportunity Village clients modeling the outfits. Guests could buy the outfits so the models could take the clothing home. The event also provided shopping opportunities for guests.
More than 600 guests attended the annual gala March 19 at Red Rock Resort to watch Raftery inducted into the prestigious Royal Order of the Gael.
Let’s talk about mothers and sons. We live in a world absent shared symbols, ceremonies and rituals for rites of passage into manhood. In the premodern world, these rites were universal and effective. Every culture, every tribe made overt the vital and necessary steps from puberty to manhood. Today, this journey is left largely to the clinical observations of psychology.
Kihuen’s announcement comes just days after former U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford said he would not seek to regain the seat after losing the 2014 election to Republican Cresent Hardy in a close election.
A crash between a minivan and a truck towing a boat caused the boat to roll over on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 95 near Boulder City, delaying traffic Saturday afternoon.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument first superintendent, Vincent Santucci, a senior geologist and paleontologist for the entire National Park Service, just wrapped up his first week on the job.
“I have accomplished what I came here to do and I’m proud of what we have built here at LVGEA,” Skancke said in an interview.
Real-estate executive George Okinaka can’t remember the last time he visited the Meadows mall. And the problem for the Meadows is that there are tens of thousands of George Okinakas across the Las Vegas Valley.
The hang-gliding instructor and his 11-year-old student who died Friday afternoon in a hang gliding accident near Jean have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as John Kelly Harrison, 55, of Hawaii, and Arys Moorhead, of Farmington, N.M.
A dozen dignitaries including three members of Nevada’s congressional delegation pitched the first shovelfuls of dirt Friday to launch construction of the state’s first Fisher House where families of wounded warriors can stay while their loved ones recover at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center.
But now, actor-actor Sarah Jessica Parker is on my schedule. She will do a meet-and-greet with customers on April 16-17 at Zappos Couture’s first pop-up design collection at the Shops at Crystals.
According to a report published by Experian at the end of 2013, young adults aged 19 to 29 had an average credit score of 628 — more than 50 points lower than the national average and the lowest of all the age groups.
“The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is saddened by the events that led to the cancellation of the St. Olaf College baseball season, but commends the institution’s administration for its swift and decisive action,” MIAC Executive Director Dan McKane said in the statement.
