Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 1 into law Monday and officially put in motion plans for a 65,000-seat domed stadium to be built in Las Vegas as the home of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders and the UNLV football team.
All eyes will be on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during Wednesday night’s debate at UNLV, but a substantial amount of scrutiny will be trained on moderator Chris Wallace, the first Fox News anchor to occupy that seat during a general presidential election.
Cult filmmaker Ted V. Mikels, a longtime Las Vegan whose cinematic claims to fame include such B-movie favorites as “The Corpse Grinders” and “The Astro-Zombies,” died Sunday at his Las Vegas home following a long illness. He was 87.
Clark County cannot legally approve a mining company’s controversial request to build a village on top of Blue Diamond Hill, according to a lawyer for Save Red Rock.
New state Department of Education ratings released last week found that 21 Clark County schools are eligible to be converted into charter schools through the state’s new Achievement School District initiative.
Cheyenne’s Jessica Mercado scored a goal with two minutes remaining Monday as the host Desert Shields earned a 2-2 draw with Western in a battle of top Class 3A Sunset League teams.
At 1,301,300 jobs, employment in Nevada has now surpassed prerecession levels — with about 70,000 fewer construction jobs — according to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
The man fatally shot by Las Vegas police officers after a string of armed robberies and a miles-long car chase had no weapon, the department said Monday.
Ryan Couture, a lightweight competing in Bellator MMA, saw a four-fight win streak snapped when he was knocked out by Patricky Freire in his last outing. After the loss, Couture was diagnosed with a concussion by his doctor.
A defense lawyer in the Bunkerville standoff case has filed court papers seeking to toss out evidence obtained against his client by undercover “law enforcement agents” posing as a video production crew.
Dresdan Quackenbush scored the go-ahead goal in the 51st minute Monday to help Cimarron-Memorial’s boys soccer team to a 3-2 win over visiting Arbor View.
It was Joe Sawaia’s Coronado Cougars who best navigated the difficult conditions in the first round of the Class 4A girls state golf tournament Monday afternoon, leading by 16 strokes despite posting their highest score of the season at 317. Bishop Gorman was second at 333, with Palo Verde third at 360.
Tracey Donahue was puffing a cigarette out her passenger-side window early Saturday, her husband Tom Donahue at the wheel, when their trip to grab a meal together was interrupted by gunfire while on southbound Interstate 15.
The latest Southern Nevada soccer coaches polls, compiled by Tech coach Josh Jones
A team from NASA will conduct a weeklong test of an air traffic control system it is developing for both drones and manned aircraft starting Tuesday at Reno-Stead Airport, an exercise that will include flying drones beyond the limits of operators’ eyesight.
Professors held a discussion about the race from a local and national perspective in a media event at the university’s Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building.
Boulder City’s Lani Potter took a commanding lead after the first round of the Class 3A girls state golf tournament on Monday at Ruby View Golf Course in Elko.
Pending league approval of the Raiders’ relocation request in January, Mark Davis said the team would not play games in Las Vegas before the 2019 regular season.
A majority of employees at Palace Station narrowly rejected union representation by Culinary Local 226 over the weekend. The final vote reportedly was 266-262 with three votes being challenged.
As firefighters work to contain the 27-acre wildfire burning near Big Falls in Mount Charleston’s Kyle Canyon on Monday, certain areas remain closed, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Ray Johnson said.
Caesars Palace hosted a special Friday screening of the documentary “Unchained: The Untold Story of Freestyle Motocross,” where the man of the hour was Mike Metzger. The 40-year-old was back at the hotel where in 2006, he completed a backflip over the Caesars Palace fountains.
The FBI’s Las Vegas division on Monday said it found three minors and arrested 44 adult prostitutes as part of Operation Cross Country X, an international effort focused on stopping underage human trafficking.
Rheen Call, the quarterback of the undefeated 1944 Las Vegas High football team, died on Oct. 11 at the age of 89.
Former UFC champion Georges St. Pierre made headlines Monday when he claimed he couldn’t reach an agreement with the organization on terms for his return to competition and is now a free agent. Not surprisingly, UFC officials have disputed that assertion.
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Jack Weinstein is definitely old school and part of a Las Vegas jewelry institution that’s closing after more than 52 years.
The major shareholder in Australia’s largest casino operator voiced concerns on Tuesday after the Chinese government announced that a senior executive and two other Australians had been detained in an investigation of suspected gambling crimes, in an apparent crackdown on overseas tours for high rollers.