Khalil Rountree, a Las Vegan competing on this season of The Ultimate Fighter, talks about how watching the show years ago prompted him to become a mixed martial artist and how he angled to get on Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s team.
Training out of Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas, Cory Hendricks will look to defeat his teammate, Khalil Rountree, on next Wednesday’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter.
The first episode of Ultimate Fighter season 23 features 16 strawweight women vying for a spot on the show’s cast.
If the Ultimate Fighting Championship needs a new headliner for the historic UFC 200 event now that Conor McGregor has been scratched, Jon Jones may be willing to fill the bill.
A look at some of the top performances for the week of April 11-16.
The magic mirror from “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” is really more of a shiny metal disc. It looks quite a bit like a gong. If only Chuck Barris were there to save us from the movie’s lazy “Frozen” rip-offs and general cut-rate Tolkien aesthetic.
Las Vegas is the 60th most polluted city in the nation for year-round particle pollution, the American Lung Association said Tuesday.
Former Tennessee football player Ovince Saint Preux doesn’t look like a huge underdog tasked with fighting the best mixed martial artist in the world on short notice Saturday as he walks around the MGM Grand.
Henry Cejudo announced during a media scrum Wednesday all the good he would do if he took the flyweight championship belt from Demetrious Johnson on Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Unlicensed sidewalk vendors using coolers on the Las Vegas Strip will face reduced penalties as a result of a recently approved Clark County ordinance aimed at making the rule easier to enforce.
Famous helicopter parents in history have included Mozart’s dad, Britney’s mom (wait, what?) and Las Vegas comedian Rita Rudner, whose 13-year-old singing daughter, Molly Bergman, will open for Rudner on Friday and Saturday at Red Rock Resort.
The U.S. Treasury has decided to replace former President Andrew Jackson with anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman on the U.S. $20 bill.
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Health care company UnitedHealth Group Inc., which announced Tuesday it would limit its participation to a handful of Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges in 2017, will remain in Nevada’s exchange, according to The Associated Press.
ESPN announced that it has fired network analyst and former Boston Red Sox star pitcher Curt Schilling following his comments on Facebook about transgender people.
Federal prosecutors argued in court papers Wednesday against releasing Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in the criminal case stemming from the 2014 armed Bunkerville standoff with law enforcement.
Casino operator Boyd Gaming Corp. is close to an agreement to buy Cannery Casino Resorts LLC, in a deal that will value the privately held U.S. company at between $225 million and $240 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Henderson Chamber of Commerce’s third, and final, I CAN BE program of the school year took place Wednesday at Basic High School.
A 47-year-old man is set for a fourth trial in the slaying of his godfather after a judge declared a mistrial on Wednesday.
Oddsmakers and sharp gamblers were anticipating a bounce-back season for the Nationals, who flopped last year in the face of huge expectations.
With millions of travelers coming to Las Vegas each year — 84 percent of whom are repeat visitors — the city has mastered a few things over the years. Here are 8 things Las Vegas does better than anywhere else.
Call me prosaic. But I was unable to find any ghosts on last week’s three-night visit to Tonopah’s Mizpah Hotel. I looked. I asked. I wished. To no avail.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. executives were upbeat Wednesday despite a decline in first-quarter earnings, saying a new Macau property opening in the fall will bring a turnaround.
Congressional candidate Annette Teijeiro’s attorney has sent Republican rival Danny Tarkanian a cease-and-desist letter demanding that his campaign stop using footage of Michael Roberson in a campaign ad that Tarkanian launched Monday.
She loved words and she knew how to use them: both to tell the story and to get it. Tenacious and trustworthy, the education reporter continued to get scoops even after she was promoted to assistant city editor in May 2008.
Brian Whitaker didn’t do much running last week, and I’m not sure he was in the mood for sweets as his team lost to Basic 11-3, instead making lineup and pitching changes with the sort of calming stroll of a man confident in his approach. You know, because 500 wins will do that for a guy.
Real estate investment trust MGM Growth Properties LLC said on Tuesday it had raised $1.05 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, in the latest sign that investors are becoming more receptive to new stock market flotations.
Oscar De La Hoya, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, is excited about the May 7 WBC middleweight title fight between Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan at T-Mobile Arena.