Clemson and star quarterback Deshaun Watson are not sneaking up on anyone. The Golden Nugget posted regular-season win totals on 24 teams, and the Tigers top the list.
The professional golfer Phil Mickelson has agreed to forfeit nearly $1 million that the Securities and Exchange Commission said was unfairly earned on a tip from an insider trading scheme.
In honor of Memorial Day next Monday, McCormick & Schmick’s is thanking active U.S. military members and veterans for their service and dedication by offering them a free meal.
The Public Enemy hype man will spin Saturday at the Hard Rock Hotel’s Center Bar.
Goodwill of Southern Nevada leaders formally started construction Tuesday on a new 17,000 square-foot build-to-suit location at Boulder Highway and Horizon Road in Henderson.
The motorcyclist killed in a crash Wednesday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A 30-year-old man accused of fatally shooting two women near The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is scheduled to have his mental health evaluated.
It’s a question most locals, from newbie to vintage, have pondered at one time or another: What, precisely, constitutes the essence of only-in-Vegasness?
The annual Las Vegas music, arts and food festival that takes over downtown for three days each fall, just announced its music lineup for 2016, with an edgy, eye-grabbing clip that kicks off with a car exploding.
The House voted on Thursday to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at federal veterans’ cemeteries.
A Las Vegas judge on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of Nevada’s controversial new school choice program that would allow parents to spend taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition.
The teenager shot and killed after a gunfight at an apartment pool Monday evening has been identified as Jhronne Maddox, a 17-year-old Las Vegas resident.
The layout, part of the overall Las Vegas Wash Project, has finally reopened as the Club at Sunrise. Golfers can play it on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 to 10 a.m. during a soft opening.
Morley Safer, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who was equally at home reporting on social injustices, the Orient Express and abstract art, died Thursday, according to Kevin Tedesco, a CBS News publicist.
Google is showing off a new smart-home speaker, a virtual-reality system called Daydream and a chat service called Allo.
Juniors and seniors from four area high schools attended a Student Leadership Symposium April 22 at Nevada State College, 1125 Nevada State Drive. It’s a fair bet that none of them expected to hear what motivational speaker Roy Juarez Jr. had to say.
The games students at Martin Middle School play don’t involve rapid hand-eye coordination, smartphones or exploding zombies. The Chess Club at the school is only in its second year, but it is already making a name for itself in the state.
Whether it’s participating in the school play or partaking in the senior prank, Shadow Ridge High School principal Travis Warnick knows the importance of engaging with his students. To celebrate his lively ways, the 45-year-old was nominated and selected as a finalist for Varsity Brands’ 2016 School Spirit Awards Principal of Principle award, which highlights the connection between school spirit, involvement, achievement and self-confidence.
In this restaurant, the chefs are also high school students, and the kitchen is a classroom. Silverado is part of the nationwide ProStart program, which unites students interested in culinary arts with people in the food service industry.
The National Weather Service declared April 2016 to be Las Vegas’ third-wettest April on record and the wettest April the city has seen since 1965. That may be great for gardens and drought watchers, but for Takuya Ohki, general manager at Wet’n’Wild Las Vegas, 7055 S. Fort Apache Road, soggy skies have been a challenge. On May 7, Ohki took a few minutes away from storm watch to talk about what it takes to run a water park.
On average, Las Vegas welcomes 2,200 refugees per year. To help ease the burden of resettlement, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with the help of Catholic Charities, will host a refugee drive on May 21.
They come from various places and different backgrounds. They also work for free. Summerlin Hospital relies on its volunteers — a force 250 strong — to help pick up the slack.
In 1993, Henderson resident Linda Flatt looked for a support group to help her deal with her son’s suicide — she didn’t find one. “I went to a general grief group and I felt completely out of place,” she said. “I was in there with people that had lost their (spouses) after 60 years of marriage, and my kid had ended his life on purpose.”
Henderson-based company Aerodrome celebrated International Drone Day on May 7 at the Eldorado Droneport in Boulder City. The event included tutorials and drone racing.
LinkedIn said Wednesday that a 2012 breach resulted in more than 100 million of its users’ passwords being compromised — vastly more than previously thought.
Henderson resident Rana Goodman was there to look after and take care of her father at the end of his life. She was surprised to learn that many seniors don’t have someone looking out for them toward the end of their lives, which led her on a crusade to speak about issues facing seniors. She recently was recognized as the Nevada Senior Citizen of the Year.
Crimebusters! took place at the Veterans Tribute Career Techincal Academy, 2531 Vegas Drive, on May 2 and showed kids and their parents how to not only extract DNA from a strawberry but how facial reconstruction is used to help identify victims from skeletal remains, how to dust for fingerprints, how to use a microscope and several other ways science helps investigators solve crimes.
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning, Egyptian aviation officials said.
Perhaps it’s the aftershock of the 2008 recession, or the impending exit of a two-term president, but most voters are wondering how a new president might affect their finances.