How kind it was of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles to send me a birthday card. It didn’t have any sappy sentiment or cheap jokes about my age. In fact, it didn’t even say “Happy Birthday!” But it did remind me that if I want to get on a commercial airline flight in four years I might consider applying for a Real ID designation at my Nevada driver’s license renewal.
Once located far from downtown, Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs is now an open-air island in a sea of development. The park offers visitors respite from city traffic, bustle and noise.
A California fisherman’s beloved German shepherd fell overboard and was presumed drowned. More than a month later, she was found.
On a night that the Florida Panthers handed out cardboard cutouts of actor Keven Spacey’s face, the “House of Cards” star surprised fans by taking off his “Spacey Facey” mask as the videoboard camera panned around the stands.
He traded the expansive office at City Hall that overlooked downtown for a cramped afterthought in a Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority annex. But there’s no mistaking this is Oscar Goodman’s place.
Most people who sign a mortgage don’t intend to walk away from it. Still, unforeseen circumstances — huge medical bills, lost jobs, divorce or eroding property values — can overwhelm even the best-intentioned borrower. A simple twist of fate can leave you facing a homeowner’s worst nightmare: foreclosure.
Q: I just bought a beautiful house with desert landscaping. I want to put in a pool and I was shocked to find the home had a restrictive easement by the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
When Johnny Stanton showed up for the first day of UNLV spring football practice looking like a linebacker at 6-feet-2-inches and a solid 245 pounds, the junior college transfer appeared poised to barrel over the competition for the Rebels starting quarterback job.
Americans have a history of pledging to move to Canada during fierce elections. But the phenomenon has hit a fever pitch thanks to GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
Former Cirque du Soleil show creator Franco Dragone has confirmed he’s working on a new Las Vegas project.
Burning Man artist Scott Cohen’s Life Cube Project was illuminated in a ceremony Saturday, kicking off two weeks of art and culture in downtown Las Vegas. The project made its Las Vegas debut in 2014.
As the net closed in around Salah Abdeslam, Europe’s No. 1 fugitive was holed up in an apartment in the place he knows best, a Brussels neighborhood favored by several of the Paris attackers.
The National XBall League Las Vegas Open paintball tournament is underway at Craig Ranch Regional Park. The event runs through today, with free admission for lower division games and $10 admission to watch the professional games.
Heavyweight Mark Hunt typically enters his fights looking for one-punch knockouts.
All season long, North Carolina coach Roy Williams and his players have endured questions of whether the Tar Heels have enough intensity and fight to live up to their potential in March.
Keely Thompson doubled to left-center with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to plate Trinity Valentine with the winning run as the Durango softball team nipped visiting Arbor View 3-2 on Saturday.
Leave the buzzer-beaters and heart-stoppers to the other guys. For Gonzaga, these are the March Mismatches.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Devonte’ Graham dribbled into the UConn end and lobbed a pass that Wayne Selden Jr. stretched to catch with one hand. He slammed the ball through the basket in the same motion for a 15-point lead in the closing minutes, sending the Kansas bench and crowd into a frenzy.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Virginia Cavaliers refused to let Butler beat them at their own game.
Standing in front of the tall, steel fence that divides the United States and Mexico, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Saturday vowed to keep immigrant families together during a visit to Arizona, which holds its primary next week.
Unbeaten bantamweight prospects Cody Garbrandt and Thomas Almeida will meet in the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card at Mandalay Bay Events Center on May 29, the organization officially announced Saturday.
Jake Stone went 3-for-5 with a home run, a double, a stolen base and two RBIs to back Jimmy Lambert’s strong pitching and lead Fresno State to a 6-2 win over UNLV in a Mountain West baseball game Saturday in Fresno, California.
It’s not going to be difficult to top what happened Friday — it’s going to be impossible. We just witnessed one of the craziest days in NCAA Tournament history.
Sixth-ranked Faith Lutheran scored in each of the first four innings, and its pitching staff combined on a two-hitter in a 7-0 win over visiting Canyon View (Utah) on Saturday.
Noah Loeffler scored the winning run on a wild pitch with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday as the Cimarron-Memorial baseball team rallied for a 3-2 win over visiting Shadow Ridge.
We should induce Google to test their driverless cars right here in Las Vegas. In fact, we provide the perfect place to do it.
Today’s college students have a rather inviting living option: student-only apartment buildings considerably nicer than those occupied by, say, many successful journalists of my acquaintance. This naturally raises the question: Where are the students getting the money for this?
It’s time to dial down completely unnecessary regulations and get behind a truly all-of-the-above energy policy, which must include nuclear, oil, natural gas and yes, those coal miners Hillary Clinton dismissed in a town hall last week.
Nevada legislators need to push the state’s congressional delegation to act on the 2015 resolution that would put the Silver State on permanent daylight saving time. Enough with the ridiculous clock changes.
