April 1 has long since passed, but that didn‘t stop the Golden State Warriors‘ Andre Iguodala from making fools of some of his Twitter followers on Thursday.
Searching for a reason to take a midday snooze? Look no further than a new study reporting naps increase a person‘s tolerance of frustration.
Ronda Rousey, the Ultimate Fighting Championship women‘s bantamweight champion, has been finishing her opponents inside the octagon in record time with her trademark armbar submission hold. When it comes to delivering knockout blows outside the cage, she has proven far more patient.
Gibraltar-based 888 Holdings won the takeover battle for Bwin.party Digital Entertainment, agreeing Friday to pay $1.4 billion for the company and creating an online gaming conglomerate.
Parents with students currently attending private school and who teach their children at home voiced their opposition Friday to proposed regulations that require enrollment in a public school for 100 days before they can access Nevada‘s upcoming education savings accounts.
Private-sector representatives discussed ways that Nevada‘s four-year drought has affected their business operations at a Nevada drought forum on Friday.
UCLA Health, which runs four hospitals in the university‘s campuses, and drug retailer CVS Health Corp.‘s CVSphoto.com became the latest victims of cyber attacks.
Not everyone in the Las Vegas luxury home market is looking to purchase a mansion with finely manicured surroundings or a lofty tower apartment with cityscape veranda views. A certain set of well-heeled individuals is looking to live in just such amazing places for a limited time.
Has Nevada‘s economy suffered since July 1? It was supposed to.
Shaded by voluminous trees on a quiet cul-de-sac in northern Summerlin‘s Trails village, a surprising home balances two essential aspects of contemporary upscale home living: entertaining guests and everyday life.
Can things get even worse at the Department of Veterans Affairs? Of course they can. This is the federal government, after all.
To crib a famous hit song refrain, Las Vegas "knows how to party " and some top-notch homebuilders have installed the best amenities in party-tastic places with luxurious aplomb.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the Iranian nuclear deal would increase funding for global terrorism, defended capitalism from attacks by both Democrats and Republicans and said America shouldn‘t try nation building in other lands.
When you write a column, as did I two weeks ago, headlined "The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history," you don‘t expect to revisit the issue. We had hit bottom. Or so I thought. Then on Tuesday, the final terms of the Iranian nuclear deal were published. I was wrong.
Following a series of highly criticized actions, including allegations that she dismissed cases out of spite for the city attorney and put her personal legal expenses on a city purchasing card, North Las Vegas Municipal Judge Catherine Ramsey is set to face a recall vote.
The claim that politics are a lagging indicator of the times seems especially true in light of Republican presidential candidates — campaign promises of U.S. energy independence. Many of the top-tier contenders have vowed to deliver it.
Nevada‘s new Education Savings Account program, made possible through the passage of legislation authored by Sen. Scott Hammond, is the nation‘s most sweeping and promising school choice opportunity. Any student who has spent 100 days in public school will be eligible to receive between $5,100 and $5,700 per year — which his or her parent may then use to fund private school tuition, home-based education, tutoring and a number of other school-related expenses.
Democrats are quite fond of telling Republicans that Obamacare is the law, that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld it yet again, and that it is working. The subtext: The Affordable Care Act isn‘t an issue anymore, so stop talking about it.
Whatever good vibrations existed between the Clark County School District and state leaders have been wiped out in the aftermath of a legislative session that was supposed to be celebrated.
There are plenty of numbers in politics, some that are quite meaningful and others that don‘t mean much.
Conservatives most definitely will get a 2016 referendum on the package of record tax increases passed this year by the Republican-controlled Nevada Legislature.
In selling the nuclear deal reached with the Iranian regime in Vienna last week, President Barack Obama repeatedly made the point that this accommodation with one of the world‘s most repressive and aggressive regimes is based not on trust, but on verification.
Thank goodness we have paid faculty on publicly funded college campuses to research the really important issues of our time. Like the difficulty vampires face in gaining the acceptance of society.
The Dallas Cowboys are valued at $3.2 billion by Forbes, making them the second-most valuable sports franchise in the world.
If you‘re counting venues, it hardly makes sense. Why build another 5,000-seat concert hall when we already have three?
Clark County and its largest union are in a high-profile labor dispute that has two fronts.
Fort Verde State Historical Park in Arizona preserves remnants of frontier history during turbulent times of the late 1800s.
The U.S. Mint will resume sales of its popular 2015 American Eagle silver bullion coins on Monday on an allocated basis, it said in a statement on Friday, almost two weeks after running out of stock due to significant demand.
A two-week lockdown has been lifted at a private prison in northwest Arizona where eight staff members and four inmates suffered mostly minor injuries during four days of unrest earlier this month.
An Oklahoma man was sentenced late on Thursday to 30 years in prison for asphyxiating his stepfather with an "atomic wedgie" in December 2013.