Nevada gaming regulators on Wednesday tentatively approved the $341 million merger of slot machine route giant Golden Gaming with casino operator Lakes Entertainment, turning the family owned business into a publicly traded company.
There’s now an app for messaging that requires no mobile data plan and no Internet connection, and it’s exploding in popularity among junior high and high school kids.
The New York Stock Exchange was underway Wednesday afternoon after suspending trading because of a computer glitch.
With his roguish charm, the gallant scoundrel Han Solo has long been one of the favorite characters in the “Star Wars” universe. Now fans will finally get to learn the smuggler-turned-hero’s backstory.
The gun used in the killing of a San Francisco woman in a case that gave new political prominence to the issue of illegal immigration was stolen from a vehicle belonging to a federal Bureau of Land Management agent, a source familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.
LAKE MEAD — Reports are limited this week due to the thunderstorm activity around the lake. The best fishing has been during the cooler overnight hours, but the NPS and NDOW are urging boaters and fishermen to use extreme caution near thunderstorm activity.
With a flurry of new weight-loss drugs appearing in the last several years, it might seem the answer to stubborn belly fat and those few extra pounds is just a doctor’s prescription away.
Las Vegas lawyer Adam Kutner has filed a new lawsuit against Google Inc. in his attempt to remove “defamatory and offending postings” about him from the Internet.
The NHL “wants a Las Vegas franchise to happen. But they want another Anaheim or San Jose, not another Arizona or South Florida.”
Full House Resorts CEO Dan Lee was given a tentative Nevada gaming license, seven months after he led a takeover of the Las Vegas-based casino company.
Summer is generally a pretty quiet time on college campuses, but the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is certainly trying to keep the heat on public universities that stifle the First Amendment. Last July, FIRE launched its Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project, which has been a certifiable success so far.
District Judge Eric Johnson definitely got it right in ruling that the recall of North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Catherine Ramsey can go forward. Now we might get to see if the Nevada Supreme Court can do likewise.
Republican Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would win the Latino vote if he gets his party’s nomination for president and claimed a “great relationship with the Mexican people,” despite recent comments about immigrants that have cost him business.
A Canadian man punched then shot and killed a skinny cougar that went after his dog.
Roger Federer and Andy Murray have a date in the Wimbledon semifinals on Friday, their second in the history of the tournament.
Fruit juices today are pretty trendy. From cold pressed to locally pressed, most juices pack a sugar punch akin to soda pop.
A major Disney theme park is removing a likeness of Bill Cosby after this week’s revelation that the comedian provided drugs to women with whom he wished to have sex.
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Henderson residents Blake Baumunk, 13, and Kendall Nether, 13, were chosen from more than 1,500 applicants to serve as delegates to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s 2015 Children’s Congress. JDRF is a global organization funding type 1 diabetes research. The event brings together more than 160 children with type 1 diabetes from all over the U.S., the District of Columbia and six countries for three days.
Amy Parks, a longtime employee of the Nevada Division of Insurance, has been named acting insurance commissioner.
State Sen. Aaron Ford, D-Las Vegas, today announced he would not run for the 3rd Congressional District, opting instead to run for re-election.
The 11,000-square-foot home is in Ascaya, a planned luxury community of 313 homes that rests 3,100 feet above sea level, in Henderson’s McCullough Mountains.
Three people were killed and one was wounded when gunmen opened fire on a group of people on a street near the University of Maryland, Baltimore, police said on Wednesday.
The Nevada Department of Corrections’ Inspector General’s office is investigating a possible assault that left an inmate hospitalized in Northern Nevada. Joshua Brodsky, 37, was found injured in a general population housing unit at Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City, the department said.
World number one Rory McIlroy will not be fit enough to defend his British Open title after rupturing ankle ligaments playing football with friends, he said on Wednesday.
An Alabama mother crashed into a driving license office on Tuesday after her child finished a road test.
As Naomi Oakes headed to her first leukemia treatment, she hoped to gain the attention of her favorite songstress, Taylor Swift, through social media. It worked — in a big way.
Change would put the Department of Defense in charge of almost 850,000 acres currently managed by both the Pentagon and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.