On nearly any given night, the Fremont Street Experience is lined with people in costumes or scantily clad hoping visitors to the downtown attraction will give them tips. Other buskers may be singing or making crafts.
The psychedelic reggae-rock band Simply Stoopid is the umpteenth music act to play Vegas this summer that advocates legal marijuana and attracts many psychedelic fans.
Seattle Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma threw a no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday in a 3-0 victory that made him the just the second Japanese pitcher to accomplish the feat.
In Iceland, elves live in mountains. They’re called “huldufólk” for “hidden people.” Some Icelanders tell tales of seeing elves in the night, playing the family pianos perhaps, but mainly elves dwell in geology or, if you prefer, mythology. And whoever I find from Iceland, I ask if they believe in elves.
Two massive explosions caused by flammable goods ripped through an industrial area in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday, killing 17 people and injuring as many as 400, official Chinese media reported.
When the Mariners beat the Orioles 6-5 in 10 innings Tuesday night, it marked the first time in baseball history all 15 home teams won on the same day. It also marked the start of a celebration for a 46-year-old bettor from Dublin, Ireland, who took home $100,810 on a 15-team parlay.
Queercon’s blinking conference badges and rainbow pins set them apart from the thousands of attendees at this year’s Defcon cybersecurity summit.
Start to Google the name Andy Linn, and the search engine’s first suggestion is “Andy Linn pipe in head.”
The U.S. Department of Education will send Nevada a nearly $300,000 grant to help cover the cost of Advanced Placement exams for low-income students.
GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush’s latest trip to Nevada might not have gone exactly as he’d hoped.
Phil Mickelson has long been hosting “Tuesdays with Phil” money matches the week of a major. This Tuesday was no different, as “Lefty” and Rickie Fowler took on Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas for bragging rights and a handful of $100 bills in a practice round at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, where the PGA Championship tees off Thursday.
Two years ago when she still lived in the Phoenix area, Las Vegas resident Liz Fogg scored some of those primo tickets to a Diamondbacks game the local disc jockeys give away to the 13th caller.
These 10 players are worth watching at this week’s PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.
Expectations are high at wide receiver even with the loss of Devante Davis, the fourth-leading receiver in UNLV history. That’s partly because the Rebels — Devonte Boyd, in particular — already know what it’s like to replace Davis.
It was the summer of 1992, and Tom Thibodeau was trying to work his way up in the NBA. He had spent the prior season serving as an advance scout for the Seattle SuperSonics. Now, he was in San Antonio as an assistant for Jerry Tarkanian, who at age 62 was a rookie head coach with the Spurs.
UNLV practiced Wednesday night at the new-look Sam Boyd Stadium, a place that often has felt like a neutral site for the Rebels. Coach Tony Sanchez intends to change that, and the first true sign came earlier Wednesday when the school released a graphic of what the field will look like when UCLA visits Sept. 12.
Fox Sports has confirmed what most of the sports-media world already knew: Former ESPN host Colin Cowherd will join the organization and host a program that will be broadcast simultaneously on Fox Sports 1 and radio.
LeBron James showed up Wednesday, practiced with the rest of the USA Basketball men’s national team and left the Las Vegas minicamp later in the evening, his commitment to Team USA for the summer having been fulfilled.
Whenever you travel somewhere to fish for the first time, it is always a good idea to get intel from one of the locals. Of course, you never know how good that information is until you hit the water and put it to the test.
Swimbaits and top-water lures remain the ticket to success this week, with boils popping up all over the lake.
Tim Stauffer pitched a two-hitter, and Travis Taijeron hit two home runs and drove in five runs to power the 51s to a 7-1 win over the El Paso Chihuahuas in a Pacific Coast League game Wednesday in El Paso, Texas.
With just two days left in the comment period, the Bureau of Land Management has received no public input on plans to fast-track solar energy development on more than 25,000 acres in Lincoln County.
Las Vegas police are staging a DUI checkpoint in the west valley.
In a recent statement, the Uzbekistan’s flag carrier announced it will weigh passengers and their carry-on luggage prior to flights to determine how much weight they’ll be adding to the plane.
Ivan Lewis Greening, the singer of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, was arrested in April at a Las Vegas hotel on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, according to Las Vegas police.
UNLV has unveiled a new design for the football field at Sam Boyd stadium. It’s Las-Vegas themed. And it’s awesome.
Facing 32 separate charges of child molestation, a former North Las Vegas elementary school teacher pleaded guilty late last month to three lesser counts of attempted lewdness with a child.
Peyton Manning said Wednesday he wasn’t offended by unflattering comments Tom Brady made about him in a private email made public recently as part of the NFL Players Association’s lawsuit against the NFL to appeal the Patriot quarterback’s four-game suspension.
From a closer look at John Boyega’s runaway stormtrooper to C-3PO’s updated gear, new photos from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” offer a better portrait of the film. Entertainment Weekly unveiled the images from this week’s issue — their annual Fall Movie Preview — on Wednesday.
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‘Top Chef’ stars to close Las Vegas Strip pop-up restaurant
Southwest Vegas food hall closing only a year after opening
Wynn’s plans to build a third tower on Strip still alive
Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin
The Eagles add more shows to series at Sphere in Las Vegas