Baskin-Robbins is launching what could arguably be the best food mash-up yet — an ice cream pizza.
State lawmakers on Thursday approved a $150,000 contract to hire a retired superintendent to develop an empowerment model for the Clark County School District in time for the 2018-19 school year.
The Sacramento Kings fired coach George Karl on Thursday after his first full season with the team, setting the stage for the team to hire its ninth coach since last making the playoffs in 2006.
The death of a Henderson woman injured in a car crash last year was ruled an accident by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Nonprofit Opportunity 180 hopes to bring more educational opportunities to the Las Vegas Valley, particularly for low-income students. The brainchild of Allison Serafin — whose background includes being the former Nevada State Board of Education vice president and executive director of Teach For America Las Vegas Valley — the group wants to see high-quality charter schools enter the valley to educate those students who are underserved due to their economic status.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski won’t be prosecuted on misdemeanor battery charges, a Florida prosecutor decided on Thursday.
ATLANTIC CITY — With chaos reigning all around them, Atlantic City’s casinos seem to have found some measure of stabilization, even if it’s only for a while.
They are actors who play singers on TV. So when they sing in real life, who are we seeing?
When Ovince St. Preux got a message from Ultimate Fighting Championship matchmaker Joe Silva last week to immediately call his manager, the light heavyweight contender knew immediately what it was about.
The Grinch has a new voice: Benedict Cumberbatch. Universal Pictures announced the collaboration Wednesday night at CinemaCon, an annual gathering of theater owners in Las Vegas.
The Nevada Department of Education has selected Brett Barley, a vice president with a lobbying firm that supports education reform, to serve as deputy superintendent of student achievement.
The two men shot and killed in Henderson Tuesday have been identified by the Clark County coroner.
They debated the Iran deal, campaign finance reform and whether Edward Snowden is a traitor.
Lawyers for comedian Bill Cosby and a woman accusing him of sexually abusing her as a child were due to face off in a California courtroom on Thursday over a defense bid to dismiss her lawsuit for reasons related to the statute of limitations.
The Tennessee Titans have traded the No. 1 overall selection in this month’s NFL draft to the Los Angeles Rams for a collection of picks in one of the biggest deals in league history.
One of the biggest stars in Ultimate Fighting Championship history is set to make a comeback.
According to Cheryl Wagner, coordinator for the Clark County School District’s School-Community Partnership Program, there are more than 120 school gardens across the Las Vegas Valley. General education classes in elementary, middle and high schools use the gardens differently and tailor the lessons depending on the class.
More than 80 referral partners ranging from the Clark County School District to HopeLink of Southern Nevada send women in need of a professional wardrobe to Dress for Success.
Before the recession, northwest Las Vegas was on the brink of creating a 320-acre equestrian park that was set to bring “worldwide attention” to the area. Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem and Ward 6 City Councilman Steve Ross told residents during a March 27 meeting that the project — now more than 10 years in the making and without any recent signs of life — has not been forgotten.
A wind advisory will be in effect over the weekend with cooler temperatures in the Las Vegas Valley, but next week may see the valley’s first 90-degree day of the year.
A man authorities say dismembered a mother of three in her suburban home and then dumped her body parts in a Seattle recycling bin was charged with first-degree murder.
Summer camp for most youths is about games and sports in the great outdoors and making new friends. Camp Vegas took that model and simply added designated times to check one’s blood sugar.
For its production of the famously dark musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” Shadow Ridge High School plans to focus more on character than violence.
High-technology home protection tools are evolving. Instead of door alarms, many gadgets offer discreet security features with the ability to control them from an application on a smartphone, giving users instant knowledge about what is happening inside and outside their home at all times, and with good reason, too.
U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr. will come to Las Vegas today to promote a “well-rounded” education that goes beyond an intense focus on math and science to embrace areas such as social studies, art, health and languages.
The Providence Master Planned Community hosted a Family Fun Festival April 1 that included a rally to support the Espinosa family, Providence residents who were involved in a car crash in March that killed 10-year-old Jamie Espinosa and her 69-year-old grandmother Angelita Espinosa.
While staring out at what is essentially a diving platform 855 feet above concrete and imagining the plummet, it might have been a little hard to focus on the statistics, facts and science that Michael Mann, director of ride engineering for the Stratosphere, was explaining, but a group of 17 students from Goodwill’s ELITE program listened with rapt attention. The program is for those ages 17 to 24 with a documented disability who are looking for assistance achieving their goals in education, employment or both.
There were more than the usual handful of residents awaiting the opening of the Sahara West Library on March 17. Seventh- and eighth-graders from Leavitt Middle School, 4701 Quadrel St., were bussed to the location to view art from Eyob Mergia’s exhibit “The Philosophy of Form and Color” as well as photography by Marcella Brendible, a member of the Tsimshian Nation in Alaska.
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