The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s compensation committee was in a generous mood Monday, recommending an increase in President and CEO Rossi Ralenkotter’s salary that would put him in the top 20 of Nevada’s public officials.
Off the California coast lies the sunken wreckage of the U.S. Navy’s last flying aircraft carrier. The idea that the Navy had flying aircraft carriers is probably new to a lot of people. Imagine a nearly 800-foot “blimp” where five military airplanes can land and take off in midair.
The first legal medical marijuana dispensary in Clark County opened Monday morning and made its first sales to invited customers.
Clark County court records obtained by the Review-Journal allege that a man killed by police during a SWAT standoff Sunday morning molested two female relatives, as young as 7 years old, for nearly a decade.
The Washington Nationals haven’t given their fans much to cheer about in August, losing 14 of 22 games to fall five games behind the New York Mets in the NL East.
Panda Express’ Orange Chicken Love Tour is headed our way, and will be at the UNLV Courtyard at 4505 S. Maryland Parkway on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Chad Groeschen was working on an outdoor deck for a client a few weeks ago when his left eye started itching. He chalked it up to allergies at first, and then to a sinus infection after his eye got goopy and he could not see out of it. He had no idea his contact lenses were the problem.
Dennis L. Schumacher survived World War II fighting hand-to-hand combat in Italy and North Africa with the famous U.S. Army commando unit known as Darby’s Rangers.
Killers frontman Brandon Flowers got a chance to belt out a song he learned in 2nd grade today at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay events center.
It’s not on the level of the softball player who hit a behind-the-back home run in a recent viral video, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless.
A new municipal judge in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday ordered sweeping changes to court practices in response to a scathing Justice Department report following the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown a year ago.
Fire investigators could not determine exactly what caused a July pool deck fire at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, which caused about $2 million in damage, Clark County officials said Monday.
The hits just keep on coming for the NFL, which only recently took down a 2014 video from its website titled “Rookies learn life lessons from Sapp and Carter” in which Cris Carter, the ESPN analyst and ex-NFL star, stressed the importance of having “a fall guy in the crew.”
Technology and diversity are the key to a strong corporate America, says Apple CEO Tim Cook, which is why his company is giving iPads and Macs to public schools around the country.
The Green Bay Packers confirmed Monday that No. 1 wide receiver Jordy Nelson will miss the season with an injured right knee.
IndyCar driver Justin Wilson remained hospitalized in a coma after sustaining a severe head injury during Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway.
The hugely successful boy band One Direction will take a year-long break next year so that members can pursue separate interests, a report in a British newspaper said on Monday.
Southern Nevada taxi rates will go up at the end of the week with a slight bump in the drop and mileage rates and a 3 percent tax that also will affect limousines and transportation network companies.
The subtle appeal in mid-length skirts seems unarguable. However, their under-the-knee or calf length has been many times labeled as only formal or office appropriate. After seasons of being ranked as a revamped fashion must-have, we know better and rather ask ourselves what has changed.
Come October, Neon Museum executive director Danielle Kelly will still be a Las Vegan. But not a Nevadan.
Sen. Harry Reid on Monday called on NV Energy to “get real” about rooftop solar or risk alienating customers and perhaps losing in court.
U.S. stock indexes plunged almost 4 percent on Monday as investors, rattled about China’s economy, sold heavily in an unusually volatile session that confirmed the S&P 500 was formally in a correction.
Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky, fully aware the school day wouldn’t officially end for a few more hours, said he considered it a smooth start to the new year.
A few years ago when I was waiting to catch a plane in Kansas City, my brother-in-law took me to the site of old Municipal Stadium, after which we had lunch at Arthur Bryant’s barbecue just down the street. Then it was on to the Negro Leagues Hall of Fame on East 18th Street.
The Mohave County sheriff’s office is investigating the weekend death of a California man at Lake Havasu in Arizona.
The Colorado movie massacre gunman is destined for the “darkest, most painful part of hell,” a sobbing victim testified on Monday at the start of a three-day hearing after which James Holmes will be formally sentenced to life with no parole.