I am tired of politicians, government bureaucrats and undocumented immigrant advocates (not to mention news organizations) continually stating that the number of undocumented immigrants currently residing in the United States is “11 million to 12 million.” The Social Contract Press published a 2007 article in which the Los Angeles Times cited the number of undocumented immigrants living in the country at the time as between 8 million and 12 million.
The More Cops tax is back before the Clark County Commission, in a form that appears to have what its previous incarnations didn’t: the five-vote supermajority required for passage.
Jack Stevens went 2-0 in singles Saturday to lead Faith Lutheran’s boys tennis team to a 12-6 win over Bonanza at Darling Tennis Center.
Derek Stevens had his own unique vision for downtown Las Vegas. The owner of the D Las Vegas had acquired the old Clark County Courthouse building. But instead of building another hotel, he created a place for concerts and sporting events, including boxing, at what is the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.
For better or worse, the dramatic rise of daily leagues has changed the landscape of fantasy sports forever.
A cooldown is in store for the valley, which means temperatures will drop closer to seasonal average highs of about 99 degrees by Tuesday afternoon, meteorologist Chris Outler said Saturday.
William “Ken” Kenneth and Ruth “Jerry” Geraldine Boswell forgot their marriage license on their wedding day on Aug. 31, 1940, so they jumped in their 1937 Graham-Paige so they could go home and retrieve it.
Las Vegas police are investigating an auto-pedestrian crash in the central valley.
It was around 7:30 in the morning, and a Maloof brother of Las Vegas was either just waking up or just getting in when he read on TMZ that Mike Bossy’s 50 goals in 50 games keepsake hockey puck was being auctioned off by someone not named Mike Bossy.
Now college football is becoming more like college basketball.
Sheriff’s deputies on Saturday arrested a 30-year-old man who will be charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting death of a deputy at a suburban Houston gas station, a killing the sheriff tied to anger against police.
Dozens of returning Nevada Army Guard members were honored Saturday after nearly a year of service in the Middle East.
Aviation expert Mike Boyd is betting that Las Vegas has nonstop flights to and from China within three years.
Boyd, president and CEO of Boyd Group International, told a group gathered for the 20th annual International Aviation Forecast Summit on Saturday that Denver and Las Vegas are the two leading candidates for nonstop flights based on growing travel demand from middle-class Chinese citizens that have the means and desire to travel abroad.
A Metro officer was injured and a police car sustained “major damage” in a two-vehicle crash in Laughlin on Saturday, according to police.
A man is dead after a Metro-involved shooting early Saturday morning in North Las Vegas, the Police Department said. Las Vegas police were called about 3:15 a.m. to a business in the 5000 block of East Craig Road, near Nellis Boulevard, on reports of “a larceny from a person,” a Metro release states.
Caught in the grip of the nation’s economic decline, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has struggled for the past four years to recover from a plunge in student attendance.
The Spanish Palms condominium community on South Rainbow Boulevard is a blast from the city’s 1990s past.
And that other past — the 2006 boom era in which sanity abandoned the local housing market.
It’s no secret why Allegiant Air is the most profitable airline in the sky.
Two men wanted by Metro in connection with a Thursday fatal shooting in a southwest valley garage have been questioned and are not connected to the slaying, police said.
NEW ORLEANS — The most noticeable change in The Big Easy casino market 10 years after Hurricane Katrina is the 14-foot-high concrete-and-steel wall that encircles Boomtown New Orleans.
BILOXI, Miss. — Ten years ago, I learned firsthand about Southern hospitality in the most unlikely of settings.
The North Las Vegas City Council has approved a contract with the union that represents the city’s firefighters.
An 83-year-old man who went missing from a casino lobby and was found dead two days later died of heart complications, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
Sixty years after the CIA and the Air Force found an old airstrip along the Groom Dry Lake bed to test the U-2 spy plane in 1955, the family that owns mineral rights to the Groom Mine and property within sight of the classified installation known as Area 51 has been given a final offer of $5.2 million to sell its stake in the land, Air Force officials said Friday.
LOS ANGELES — Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina reminded us that when it comes to natural disasters, you can prepare for the worst, but it’s also crucial to plan for the chaos that comes afterward.
Delays in hiring staff and completing building repairs have pushed back next week’s planned reopening of Nevada’s only maximum-security juvenile correctional facility in Clark County.
When it comes to talking about the major events that impact a child’s life, parents and teachers sometimes fail. And that lack of communication could hinder a student’s success.
In an interview with USA Today earlier this week, Celine Dion anticipated her return to the stage in Las Vegas would be emotional. At the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Thursday night, it took all of one song for at least part of her prescient prediction to be realized.
Police hunting the perpetrators of Thailand’s deadliest bombing arrested on Saturday a foreigner they said matched the description of a man who left a bag at the crowded site of a blast in Bangkok nearly two weeks ago.
They would seem to be unlikely friends. Unlikely allies. Unlikely acquaintances, even.
