As we slide into the new year, several community leaders are hoping for big things and long-term improvement in the east valley and downtown Las Vegas.
After a decade of short-term fixes, Congress has finally passed a five-year highway bill. That’s the good news.
Today marks the third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act’s implementation in Nevada. So it makes sense for Nevadans to ask: How is the law playing out in the state?
Letters from Dan Zelna, Seth McNabb, William Golas, and Morton Friedlander.
Some people would look at the Huntridge Tavern and the surrounding area and only see a run-down dive bar and cut-rate stores catering to the poor and the homeless.
It was only a matter of time before the old adobe hut at Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs would have been erased from history, said Courtney Mooney, the city of Las Vegas’ historic preservation officer, recalling the structure’s state five years ago.
Another year is in the books, and it wasn’t a good one for the cause of common sense. Political correctness, overreaction and alarmism continued their assault on our freedoms, to say nothing of our wallets and our mental health. As we dive into 2016, it’s worth recapping some of the most ridiculous stories of 2015. And, no, we’re not making any of this up.
Unless the Indianapolis Colts get a playoff berth, the Colts plan to dismiss head coach Chuck Pagano after the season, ESPN.com reported Thursday, based on league sources.
A fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada’s main north-south highway for almost 24 hours in October was caused by rainfall that seeped through a compromised cover and reacted with metallic sodium, according to a report released Thursday.
Where some musicians might be content to perform in a Cirque du Soleil show on the Strip, cellist and singer Shana Tucker uses her days off to appear around the country or work on her next release.
There are times when the music from outside events is so loud that the windows at Temple Baptist Church in downtown Las Vegas shake, the Rev. Steve Smith says.
The holiday season came and went in a blink, but students at a northwest-area school made sure it left a lasting impression for a few four-legged friends.
Dozens of new laws dealing with police body cameras and elections to industrial hemp and craft pickling will take effect in Nevada at the stroke of midnight.
Houston won 12 games and the American Athletic Conference championship in coach Tom Herman’s first season, but the Cougars didn’t have a signature win. They do now.
Project 150 held a free teen shopping day Dec. 12 inside its new location at 3600 N. Rancho Drive. The local nonprofit provides disadvantaged students with food, clothing, school supplies, sports equipment, shoes and other needs.
Some Henderson residents received a holiday surprise Dec. 21 when members of the Gray family drove a Christmas-themed float while honking their horn through the neighborhood near their Burton Street home.
Fire engulfed a 63-story skyscraper in Dubai on Thursday night, but with the block evacuated and only minor injuries reported authorities went ahead with a New Year’s fireworks display at the world’s tallest building a few hundred meters away.
A friendship and service organization, The Links is almost 70 years old nationally and made its debut in Las Vegas in 1976.
With ushering in the new year comes a reflection on the past year and optimism for the upcoming year. Although many get broken or just forgotten about entirely, plenty will be made.
Republican Ben Carson’s 2016 presidential bid was thrown into chaos on Thursday when his campaign manager and some 20 other staff members quit amid infighting, dropping poll numbers and negative media coverage.
It was once dubbed the “Road to Nowhere,” but 20-plus years later, Summerlin Parkway is used by so many motorists that it’s due for upgrades.
People who are new to riding a motorcycle often have to unlearn what they were taught about riding a bicycle or driving a car — particularly when it comes to applying the brakes.
A woman has filed a lawsuit against Senior U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson, saying his bathroom above her condo flooded and caused “severe damage” that she has not been able to completely repair for more than five months.
Just in time for the homestretch to the first U.S. presidential primaries and caucuses, a popular archive of sometimes-misguided or embarrassing tweets that have been deleted by politicians and their staff has been resurrected by Twitter.
The United States Tennis Association Intermountain announced its 2015 annual Awards winners and 2015 Hall of Fame inductees at an awards luncheon and ceremony Dec. 5 at the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa in Henderson.
Chicago’s top prosecutor on Thursday said she asked the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to help probe the fatal police shootings of two black residents over the weekend, as protesters renewed calls for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the murder conviction of a motorcycle gang member in a 2011 brawl at a Sparks hotel-casino because the trial judge failed to clear up confusion on the part of the jury during deliberations.
There’ll always be a soft place in your heart for your first kiss, your first I-love-you and for the person who gave them to you.