Jason Mercier won the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Championship on Monday night at the Rio Convention Center to ensure the 29-year-old professional poker player from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will collect on several lucrative side bets.
United by grief, anxiety and anger, a group of UNLV students put together a vigil Monday night to help the community mourn.
At Zarfest, the only thing on my mind and I suspect everybody else’s was hanging out and having fun. “Everybody’s here for a common goal, which is to sit back, enjoy summer and listen to good music,” observed Special K drummer Justin Ptak.
LeBron James and Kyrie Irving became the first teammates to each top 40 points in the same NBA Finals game, and the Cleveland Cavaliers staved off elimination by beating the Golden State Warriors 112-97 on Monday night.
Two days after a gunman entered an Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub and opened fire, killing 49 people and injuring 53 more, the Las Vegas club scene remains largely tight-lipped about its security efforts, while Metro in a news conference Monday afternoon touted its counterterrorism posture and increased patrols in the resort corridor and at LGBT hangouts.
The driver’s body was found next to the moped about 6:45 p.m. in the driveway of a home near the intersection of Astoria and Spokane drives, which is southeast of Mojave Road and Vegas Valley Drive.
Supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in Las Vegas are figuring out ways to make positive change after Sunday’s killings at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
What comes out of our taps meets safe drinking water standards, though it does contain trace amounts of some heavy metals, radioactive minerals and other regulated contaminants, according to an annual report released Monday by Las Vegas Valley Water District.
One person suffers smoke inhalation from a fire Monday evening in the southeast valley, according to a Clark County Fire Department media release.
Republican strategist Tony Dane, charged with extorting a Nevada assemblyman, tried to persuade the FBI to investigate the lawmaker for soliciting a bribe, according to grand jury transcripts.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal announces its 2016 all-state girls swimming teams.
If early voting turnout is any indication, Tuesday’s primary election day could be one of the busiest in recent memory, Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said.
Billy Ray James, who went to trial three three times for the same killing, has accepted a plea bargain and been sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison. But he already has spent six years behind bars.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal announces its 2016 all-state boys track and field teams.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children issued an AMBER Alert in Nevada on Monday for two adults and three children.
A suspect in a homicide that happened in Laughlin last week waived extradition at a Monday appearance in Mohave County Superior Court in Kingman.
Gun control might now have moved high on the list of issues Latinos across Nevada consider important in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
“What’s a demigod gotta do?” Dwayne Johnson’s Maui asks when his audience isn’t impressed by his antics in the stunning first teaser for the upcoming Disney animated film “Moana.”
Conservationists are asking the White House Council on Environmental Quality to put the brakes on plans to allow a popular off-road, desert race from near Las Vegas to Reno to run through a newly established national monument in Southern Nevada.
Thanks to Serena Williams’ Snapchat videos, we can see she made the most of Vegas weekend with friends Ciara and Kelly Rowland, among others.
A three-member panel could soon examine whether an elevated expressway, a light rail system or the Las Vegas Monorail should connect McCarran International Airport to the Strip.
After getting called up from Double-A Binghamton to Las Vegas, excitement was high for right-hander Robert Gsellman, the Mets No. 12 prospect.
KLA Laboratories, an information technology firm based in Michigan, is expanding west by establishing a new office in Las Vegas.
A lawyer for Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., or CEOC, asked a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Monday to halt lawsuits against its parent temporarily so it can complete negotiations with creditors on a consensual reorganization plan.
A new exhibit, “Les Folies Bergere: Entertaining Las Vegas One Rhinestone at a Time,” salutes the Tropicana’s long-running spectacular, which closed in March 2009 after almost 50 years.
David Ballou and Jamie Lee Sprague-Ballou, who were married in California in 2013, are a unique Las Vegas couple.
When the Riviera’s 24-story Monaco tower is imploded early Tuesday morning, the storied hotel and casino will join the growing list of Las Vegas resorts that once were.
According to the New York Times, Donald Trump said he intends to invite UFC president Dana White to speak at the Republican National Convention next month in Cleveland, Ohio.