Although sugar is sweet to our taste buds, it can sour our health. Added sugar can pack on the pounds and cause associated problems of obesity, including diabetes. More recently, researchers have discovered that added sugar, on its own, regardless of other health problems, can more than double the risk of death from heart disease!
Durango coach Tom Appleyard generally limits his pitchers to 100 pitches.
Surely, you’ve heard the advice to cut out discretionary expenses to save money. It’s true that those small savings can add up and provide a little more wiggle room in your budget. But what about those necessary expenditures — the bills you have to pay each month?
Dark clouds hung over many previous Mountain West football media days, but the mood is quite different this week.
Travis Taijeron hit a bases-clearing double as part of a four-run first inning, and the 51s cruised to a 14-2 Pacific Coast League victory in the opener of a four-game series at Sacramento on Tuesday night.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why an Allegiant Air flight from Las Vegas made an emergency landing in North Dakota last week because it was short on fuel.
Some people live for adventure and travel. YouTube user Walter Chang is that kind of person. And he’s nice enough to share with the Internet.
In this case, which is a mess being played out in the court system, attorneys are the sharpest handicappers. And while a good attorney is not hard to find, it’s suddenly hard to find a good one who likes Tom Brady’s chances.
Cowabunga Bay’s lifeguard training is recognized again in Nevada after health officials and park operators scrambled Tuesday to determine whether their certifications were valid.
Frontier Airlines is announcing Tuesday that it will offer daily nonstop flights between McCarran International Airport and Milwaukee, Miami, San Francisco and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
For most of an hour, the crowd of reporters — some sitting, some standing — was in double digits as UNLV coach Tony Sanchez went through his first Mountain West media days. And he relished every moment.
The Spring Mountains Visitor Gateway offers a cool retreat from the Las Vegas summer heat.
North Las Vegas casino Texas Station is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month.
As a player and a coach, Steve Alford has been involved in several memorable games against UNLV. Now, he can look forward to another one.
Some high rollers saw their cash go up in smoke at The Cosmopolitan on Saturday.
Solo travel can be a boring and lonesome enterprise. One new travel app to the market is hoping to change that. The saucily-named MileHi app is hoping to take some of the tedium out of the process by allowing fliers to meet-up (and possibly hook up) before, during and after the journey.
Leading Las Vegas sports bettor Glen Cobb was sentenced to one year of probation Tuesday for his role in what federal prosecutors alleged was a multimillion-dollar illegal gambling operation.
On the way to defaulting on its $2.2 million loan from a local charity, Med Lien Management brought in Lisa Esposito to help organize the office.
Henderson’s new city manager, Robert Murnane, could make $228,500 a year — about the same as his predecessor — under a proposed contract released Tuesday.
It’s now much easier to measure the nitrogen dioxide pollutant from motor vehicles traveling past Palace Station on Interstate 15.
WASHINGTON — Nevada will receive $8.4 million in state and local security grants this year, including $3 million to guard against an attack on Las Vegas, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday.
The Clark County coroner’s office Tuesday confirmed what Las Vegas police suspected in a northwest valley homicide investigation.
For the second time this month, the state’s high court has referred Las Vegas attorney David Phillips to the State Bar of Nevada for investigation of possible misconduct.
Las Vegas locals and tourists are really one in the same, just with different goals. Sometimes it’s easy to spot the tourist — especially on the Strip — and at other times you’ll accidentally assume a local is a tourist.
New York Mets relief pitcher Jenrry Mejia has been suspended for 162 games after testing positive for banned substances a second time, Major League Baseball said on Tuesday.
The man was found about 5:10 a.m. in a home in the 3000 block of Panama Beach Dr., near the intersection of Rampart Avenue and Cheyenne Boulevard, according to dispatch logs. Police said he looked like he had been shot.
An inmate on a Nevada Department of Forestry work crew escaped in the east Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Department of Corrections.
Windows 10 is a new release that has many new features, but it also brings back some old favorites.
A Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority subcommittee is recommending the Riviera be torn down sooner rather than later.
