Dallas Mavericks owner and “Shark Tank ” investor Mark Cuban was honored Sunday evening during the Adelson Educational Campus’ 13th annual In Pursuit of Excellence Gala at the Venetian.
An open race to represent northwest Las Vegas drew double-digit candidate interest, and the packed field includes political newcomers and well-known names.
Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown, even at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax collections.
Starting out with paving a few humble dirt roads, the Nevada Department of Transportation has evolved over the past century into an agency that oversees construction of the state’s busiest highways.
The return of Yucca Mountain should be the clarion call that unites Nevada in demanding that the federal government give us back our land.
No. 1 seed Gonzaga opened as a 6½-point favorite over seventh-seeded South Carolina (total 139), and top seed North Carolina opened as a 5-point favorite over No. 3 seed Oregon (total 150½) in the Final Four.
California Gov. Jerry Brown likened President Donald Trump to a strongman whose goal of walling off the U.S.-Mexico border conjures other infamous barriers from the past.
This program is a perfect example of how much contempt government agencies have for the American taxpayer. This is one of the swamps the Trump administration is going to have to drain.
My thinking has been they all drive in the left or fast lane because at some point during their day they will be making a left turn.
Mr. Kessler writes that “it’s long past time for politicians … to stop repeating the ’78 cent’ factoid without proper context.”
Here’s a look at the week’s top high school sports events.
The three-day Vogue Knitting Live! show at Red Rock Resort attracted a mix of local and national knitting and crocheting enthusiasts. It included an art exhibition, knitting classes, boutique shops and even a yarn toss.
Consider North Carolina the tour guide at this year’s Final Four. The Tar Heels will be making their record 20th trip, and most of the players on this year’s roster were on hand last season to find out all about the agony of coming oh-so close to winning it all.
Jon Gray was known to hang with such stars as Kanye West and Jay-Z at the Palms a decade ago. Today he’s responsible for reenergizing the hotel-casinos nightlife spaces.
The North Carolina Tar Heels now are a win away from getting back to a national championship game they narrowly lost a year ago. And this time, they made the last shot.
Owners of the league’s 32 teams have gathered in Phoenix for their spring meetings, and atop the agenda is whether to allow the Oakland Raiders to relocate to Southern Nevada.
Jack Zoellner hit a three-run first-inning home run Sunday to power New Mexico to a 7-3 win over UNLV and cap a three-game Mountain West baseball series sweep at Wilson Stadium.
A pro-Las Vegas vote is anticipated, but owner Mark Davis has been nervous for months regarding the outcome as he waits for his wealthy peer group to decide whether it is in their financial interest to allow the Raiders to move to the desert.
Injuries are creating question marks for the New York Mets — and by extension, their Triple-A affiliate, the 51s — with a week before the season starts.
The lines were long, the concourse packed, but many fans had a good time at Big League Weekend at Cashman Field.
Gonzaga opened as a 6½-point favorite over South Carolina and North Carolina is favored by 4½ points over Oregon in the Final Four.
Kyle Larson was second to nobody in his home state. Larson persevered through four late restarts to win at Fontana on Sunday, adding his second career victory to his overall Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series points lead.
South Carolina added a missing piece to its rich basketball history. The school of Frank McGuire, Kevin Joyce, Brian Winters, Mike Dunleavy and Alex English is going to the Final Four for the first time.
No one was injured when a kitchen fire destroyed part of the Roadrunner Saloon, a restaurant and bar in the west valley.
A 92-year-old North Carolina man has finally received the Purple Heart he earned more than 70 years ago while fighting in Belgium during World War II.
Move over guinea pigs, there’s a new class pet in town. They may not be furry or conventionally cute, but they do wiggle.
A United Airlines gate agent barred two girls from boarding a flight Sunday morning because the girls were wearing leggings.
Russia’s opposition, often written off by critics as a small and irrelevant coterie of privileged urbanites, put on an impressive nationwide show of strength Sunday with scores of protest rallies spanning the vast country.
Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood sent a WhatsApp message that cannot be accessed because it was encrypted by the popular messaging service, a top British security official said Sunday.
Janelle Brown, a star of TLC’s “Sister Wives” and a Las Vegas resident, is ready to change lives with her new interactive online community dedicated to helping people along their path to long-term healthy living.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Mystery deepens: Monolith outside Vegas may have been in desert for years
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people