Jimmy Kimmel did something unheard of in the often-cutthroat world of late-night television.
Since long before joining the Union in 1864, Nevada has drawn strength from its cultural, economic and geographic diversity. The storied histories of mining and ranching, combined in later decades with gaming and entertainment, and now technology, have contributed to the economic vitality and cultural identity that is today’s modern Nevada.
If anything, Gov. Brian Sandoval’s revised tax package told us more than his original idea.
Nevada’s underperforming K-12 schools aren’t the only campuses stuck with low ratings. Higher education has its problems, too, particularly when it comes to free speech at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Nevada, Reno.
If an insurance industry-friendly bill survives the waning days of the Legislature, you will be putting more than your safety at risk by failing to wear a seat belt when you ride in a cab.
With the bases loaded and one out in the seventh, Atlanta Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez approached home plate umpire Chris Segal to complain that Milwaukee reliever Will Smith had a foreign substance on his right forearm.
Wally Backman is still old-school enough to prefer a mix of metrics and instinct, the 51s manager who should be running the Miami Marlins right now but isn’t because owner Jeffrey Loria is a bigger lunatic than we ever imagined.
Hundreds of people joined officers from law enforcement agencies across Southern Nevada on Thursday night at Police Memorial Park to memorialize those who gave their lives in the line of duty.
A body found at a south valley house on Thursday is being investigated as a possible homicide, Las Vegas police said.
Six police officers have been indicted in the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Thursday.
Gaming industry chief lobbyist Geoff Freeman warned Thursday against restricting the use of federal government credit cards in casinos, calling the idea an overreaction to an audit that found thousands of questionable transactions.
If a Boston clambake with Boston beer is sounding pretty good as we slip into a Southern Nevada summer, know that it’s a possibility at The Pub at Monte Carlo, 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South.
Crush at MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, has added new specials to its happy hours menu, available from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. to closing Mondays through Thursdays.
The suspect in the killing of a Washington businessman and three others found in a torched mansion last week has been taken into custody, police said late on Thursday.
Chris Weidman, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight champ, is squarely focused on becoming one of the organization’s best fighters ever. He will defend his title Saturday against Vitor Belfort at UFC 187 at the MGM Grand Garden.
A black bear wandered onto the edge of the playground at a Seattle-area elementary school on Thursday morning, where officials readying children for outdoor gym class promptly canceled the activities, officials said.
A majority of Americans support the decriminalization of marijuana because they believe law enforcement resources are wasted prosecuting pot users. Las Vegas police haven’t picked up on the change in public opinion.
Palo Verde boys golf coach Todd Steffenhagen knew sophomore Jack Trent was a special player from the moment the two met and played 18 holes last summer at TPC Las Vegas.
The Pentagon said on Thursday the United States would deliver 2,000 AT-4 anti-tank rockets to Iraq as early as next week, 1,000 more than announced on Wednesday, to help Baghdad combat suicide car bombings by Islamic State.
Two children were likely killed by a U.S. air strike in Syria in November, the U.S. military said on Thursday, the first time the Pentagon has acknowledged civilian casualties since it began an air campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.
Boulder City’s Charlene Masterson isn’t a very talkative person.
The Assembly passed a collective bargaining bill on Thursday that would impact local government agencies and school districts. Senate Bill 241 takes school administrators out of collective bargaining if they make more than $120,000 a year and also makes principals “at will” employees for the first three years.
The Los Angeles Dodgers suspended Cuban shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena on Thursday for the remainder of the season after “repeated failures to comply with his contract.”
Long-running complaints about financial and physical abuse of court wards were exposed in a series of Review-Journal articles published in April.
Reporter Steve Carp of the Las Vegas Review-Journal handicaps Friday’s races at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. Post time is 4 p.m.
NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Brendan Gaughan, who is from Las Vegas, will honor a fallen soldier with a special sticker on his car in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 in Concord, N.C. Tech Sgt. John Chapman was awarded an Air Force Cross posthumously for his actions in 2002 in Afghanistan.
A bill requiring parents to be notified if their minor daughter seeks an abortion was revived by a Nevada Senate committee Thursday.
A mother came forward with new accusations against the local pastor who resigned after being outed as gay. She said what that pastor told her son nearly drove him to suicide.
Several small limousine companies are pushing a bill in the Legislature that they say would allow them to increase their fleets without unfair interference by big taxi and limo company operators such as Bell Trans and other members of the Livery Operators Association of Las Vegas.