Preseason information for girls swimming teams, as submitted by coaches.
Culinary Union officials say 1,000 people will picket in a demonstration Friday at the Palms.
A new report from Zillow ranks Las Vegas the nation’s luckiest city for home-price gains, with a four-year value jump of nearly 75 percent. That appreciation bests big cities in states that have enjoyed healthy, recent real estate booms.
With millions of visitors flocking to Nevada each year, it’s not a surprise that unusual myths and urban legends get started about the state.
President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, thrusting a respected moderate jurist and former prosecutor into the center of an election-year clash over the future of the nation’s highest court.
A woman who had been missing since Monday was found Wednesday, according to Las Vegas police.
Investors in Caesars Entertainment Corp. were scrambling on Wednesday to grasp the cost from a court-ordered investigation that said the casino company could face $5 billion in potential damages from the bankruptcy of its operating unit.
President Obama’s nomination of federal Judge Merrick Garland for the U. S. Supreme Court did nothing Wednesday to change positions staked out earlier by members of Nevada’s congressional delegation.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller preview Thursday’s first-round games.
No one knows for sure who invented the first float tube or what its origins were, but we can be thankful today that someone gave in to their curiosity and gave it a whirl.
As the city braces for an onslaught of visitors, restaurants and casinos are preparing for partiers, bettors and basketball fans alike with scheduled viewings for the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament.
Over the next month or so is one of the finest times to enjoy Zion National Park, Utah. The weather is ideal; the leaves are popping out on the deciduous trees; wildflowers are appearing; and the birds are out and about enjoying springtime.
Heading into spring football practice, UNLV coach Tony Sanchez said he hoped that either junior college transfer Johnny Stanton, returnee Kurt Palandech or redshirt freshman Dalton Sneed would emerge as the clear-cut winner of the quarterback competition.
U.S. stocks rose Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and forecast it will raise rates more gradually than it had envisioned late last year. The Dow gained 74 points.
The mansion at 8801 Palm Greens Court sits on a nearly 1.2-acre lot and encompasses 19,000 square feet in Summerlin’s prestigious neighborhood, Tournament Hills.
The U.S. Highway 95 northbound ramp to Interstate 15 was temporarily blocked by a vehicle fire Wednesday afternoon.
Wichita police are reviewing video from a gas station where two college students say they were attacked by a white man shouting racial epithets and the name of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The death of an infant last week is under investigation in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday picked a veteran corrections administrator from out of state to take the helm of Nevada’s beleagured prison system.
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Now that I’ve had a chance to check out Neon Reverb myself after hearing so much about it, I see precisely why so many fans were bummed when the festival ended a few years back.
With every holiday these days there seems to be a matching Starbucks limited-edition drink, and the beginning of spring is no different.
“Not many people would stop and do what you did,” the employee at the animal hospital told Chris and Alan Beck, after they tried to save the life of a coot — a small black duck — that had been lying on the middle of Soft Winds Drive, a street in the Desert Shores section of Las Vegas.
Lung Force Heroes: Those personally impacted by lung cancer gathered March 16 in Washington, D.C., from every state in the country, including Lysa Buonanno, who worked as a bartender in Las Vegas for 17 years and was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 40, though she never smoked. Visit LUNGFORCE.org/shared-story/lysa-b.
An unprecedented safety shutdown of the Metro subway system inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of people in and around the nation’s capital on Wednesday.