Welcome to March Madness off road-racing style! The Mint 400 Great American returns to Las Vegas from March 1-5, and I’ve agreed to serve as grand marshal.
Three decades after the original Playboy Club closed in Manhattan, an apparent victim of changing American tastes and views on women, a new one will debut later this year.
Project 150 now helps needy and homeless school students with more than $1.3 million worth of food, clothing, school supplies and hygiene products. But the truck used to pick up and deliver donations has become a maintenance nightmare.
Attention, word nerds: This is your bonus round, courtesy of Merriam-Webster. In addition to elevating “surreal” in 2016 to word of the year, the dictionary company on Tuesday added about 1,000 new words and new definitions to existing listings on its website, Merriam-webster.com.
It’s the second day of the 2017 Legislative Session. After some surprising fireworks in yesterday’s opening speeches, here are three things to watch for this Tuesday.
The Boston Bruins fired Stanley Cup-winning coach Claude Julien on Tuesday as the team was in danger of missing the playoffs for a third straight season.
Las Vegas’ housing market began the year with a jump in sales and prices compared to the start of 2016.
Syrian authorities have killed at least 13,000 people since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus known to detainees as “the slaughterhouse,” Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday.
A Cheeto that bears a resemblance to slain gorilla Harambe has sold for nearly $100,000 on eBay.
A meteor over Lake Michigan lit up the sky Monday morning across several states in the Midwest.
Nevada lost more than 2,500 rooftop solar installation jobs in 2016 after state utility regulators imposed new, less favorable net metering rates that slowed the industry to a crawl, a new report released Tuesday shows.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is weighing the appeal concerning President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, is the federal appeals court conservatives have long ridiculed as the “nutty 9th” or the “9th Circus.”
A Buddhist monk has been arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in his car and in his monastery, police said Tuesday.
At $250 million, a new mega mansion in the exclusive Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles is the most expensive home listed in the United States.
A Las Vegas woman whose 7-year-old son was beaten to death was convicted of three child abuse charges late Monday.
NFL season MVP quarterback Matt Ryan and The Atlanta Falcons ran out of gas in overtime of Sunday’s Super Bowl 51 on Fox against four-time Super Bowl MVP quarterback Tom Brady and The New England Patriots in Houston, but Lady Gaga’s Halftime Show was the ultimate winner.
Iceland shocked the world last summer when the small nation defeated England. A win against Mexico in Las Vegas could be a bigger upset.
Desert Oasis held third-ranked Bishop Gorman to one field goal in the final 10 minutes, 50 seconds and overcame a massive psychological hurdle to earn a 50-37 victory.
Katy Orellana threw a go-ahead 50-yard touchdown pass to Avery Rayos with 30 seconds remaining Monday to lead Tech’s flag football team to a 14-7 victory over host Virgin Valley.
Sierra Vista’s Shania Harper recorded a double-double with 28 points and 12 rebounds to lead the host Mountain Lions past Clark on Monday, 60-47.
Christopher Hawkins scored 19 points to lift Canyon Springs’ boys basketball team to a 55-49 home win over Rancho on Monday.
The 29-year-old man was giving two other men a ride about 9 p.m. Monday when one of his passengers attempted to rob him, then stabbed him in the eye.
The San Francisco 49ers have officially hired Atlanta offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan as their new head coach more than a month after firing Chip Kelly after just one season.
Future decisions by the Trump administration on immigration enforcement could signal the next Civil Rights movement, a Cornell Law School professor told journalists Friday at an Education Writers Association seminar.
It’s a cynical vote-buying gambit certain to yoke taxpayers to another budget-busting entitlement. But it makes even less sense when so many Nevada kids waving their high school diplomas aren’t remotely academically equipped to move on to the next level in the first place.
The moral of the story is to have funding in place before something is built rather than rely on taxation. In the meantime, we will be paying down $140M in construction debt for another 20 years.
The president’s order sends a signal to the rest of the world that we don’t want them to visit. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
I didn’t hear anyone calling for “safe spaces” for the conservative students.
The men were both bludgeoned while sleeping in the area of City and Grand Central parkways, which is shadowed by a railroad overpass near the rear of the Plaza, away from the glow of Main Street.
Buying cigarettes. Going off to war. Voting. They are things you can do at 18 years old in America. A Nevada lawmaker wants to add gambling to that list.