South Africa’s parole review board has up to four months to conclude its decision on when Oscar Pistorius can be released from prison, a Justice Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
The State Board of Education soon must recommend Nevada’s next education chief following the departure of Superintendent of Public Instruction Dale Erquiaga.
Three pop-up cooking demonstrations and two mixology segments each day will be among the highlights of the culinary portion of the Life Is Beautiful Festival Sept. 25-27 in downtown Las Vegas. And this year’s installment of the festival, now in its third year, will have a decidedly local flavor.
The Las Vegas Beer & Barrel Project will be Aug. 28 to 30 at Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South. It will start with a VIP reception Aug. 28; seminars and panel discussions, followed by a festival on the beach with beverage and food stations Aug. 29; and “Beer for Breakfast” Aug. 30.
Real Asian noodles — to which those crispy fried things dumped out of a can bear no comparison — are gratifyingly easy to find in Southern Nevada these days, from noodle houses to ramen places and Asian restaurants of all description.
As legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim once observed, musicals aren’t written, they’re rewritten.
The Pearl at the Palms has a trio of shows going on sale this week: Godsmack is due to appear there Nov. 14.
When Elton John pulled Leon Russell back into the limelight for the “The Union” album five years ago, it could have been that one last hurrah to send the 73-year-old singer and songwriter down the trail to play out the rest of his days.
You know these guys, even if you have to think about just how. If you don’t follow comedy podcasts or syndicated/satellite radio, then maybe veteran Boston stand-up Lenny Clarke is better known as Uncle Teddy from “Rescue Me.”
Peter Frampton says two of his albums stand as the most important of his career, and “when all is said and done” they will serve as “the two posts where everything is strung between.”
What happens in China doesn’t stay in China. And Las Vegas gaming operators and the city’s tourism industry are going to feel the effects of the recent depreciation of the Chinese currency.
Burning Man organizers and volunteers setting up for the annual festival dedicated to art and free expression are contending with a new challenge: bugs.
A pigeon that was used to smuggle drugs into a prison was captured in one of the patios of the La Reforma Penitentiary on the outskirts of San Jose, Costa Rica.
Las Vegas can’t afford to rest on its reputation as an unmatched global vacation and convention destination. Keeping up with competing cities requires reinvestment. Two stories from this week highlight the constant change that characterizes the tourism industry.
Today brings another important step in the formalization of Nevada’s Education Savings Accounts, the new school choice initiative that already is changing education across the state.
Nevada set a third straight quarterly record for its number of employers. The state had 62,500 employers in its unemployment insurance system in the second quarter, the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported Thursday.
If this baseball thing doesn’t work out, maybe New York Mets rookie pitcher Noah Syndergaard will take up acting.
Nevada gaming regulators on Thursday approved the $360 million sale of the Tropicana Las Vegas to regional casino giant Penn National Gaming and the transaction is expected to close next week.
“Miss Independent” will now have two dependents. Singer Kelly Clarkson announced during a show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles that she’s “totally pregnant.”
The city of Yerington in Lyon County grew a little bit bigger Friday after the federal government completed the transfer of public lands to local control.
U.S. businessman Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, on Thursday said he would not back a higher minimum wage for American workers as such a move would hurt the nation’s economic competitiveness.
Further revelations about Josh Duggar have surfaced following the news that he molested five underage girls (including two of his sisters) as a teenager, leading to the cancellation of his family’s TLC reality series “19 Kids and Counting” in May.
A former Nevada correctional officer who pleaded guilty to supplying inmates with marijuana has received a suspended prison sentence and placed on probation, the attorney general’s office said Thursday.
Former President Jimmy Carter said on Thursday he will start radiation treatment for cancer on his brain later in the day.
Caitlyn Jenner could be charged with manslaughter following her car accident in Malibu earlier this year that left one dead.
Harrah’s New Orleans gaming revenue climbed more than 26 percent in July, reversing a nearly 30.7 drop a month earlier, which casino officials blamed on a citywide smoking ban that began in April.
Nevada is receiving a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense to protect and restore sage grouse habitat within the Navy’s training grounds around Naval Air Station Fallon, officials announced Thursday.
An extra orange hue made for a nice sunrise Thursday morning, but it wasn’t so good for air quality.
Former President George W. Bush made a fundraising appeal Thursday to supporters of his brother’s presidential campaign.