North Las Vegas businessman submits proposal for border wall

Tom Gleason, the 70-year-old founder and owner of Gleason Partners, said he submitted a bid on Tuesday to U.S. Customs and Border Protection with designs for a border wall slathered in solar panels.

Nevada lawmakers seek to make bestiality a crime

In the Silver State, no laws forbidding carnal relationships with animals. That could change with Assembly Bill 391, which would make bestiality illegal in Nevada.

 
US launches 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria

The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles Thursday night in fiery retaliation for this week’s gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians.

Nevada Senate pushes pair of marijuana tax bills

Two bills proposing differing methods for how Nevada should spend recreational marijuana tax revenue were heard Thursday by the Senate Revenue and Economic Development Committee.

Too many Las Vegas drivers block right turn on red

Please leave the right lane open if you’re going straight so that other drivers turning right may do so and help keep traffic moving.

10 takeaways from UNLV’s spring football season

The spring season came and went for the UNLV football team, and it answered many questions for what to expect for Tony Sanchez’s third season as coach.

 
Meet this season’s Las Vegas 51s

Here is a guide to the players who will break camp with the Las Vegas 51s.

Nevada congressmen urge NCAA to consider Las Vegas

The state’s congressmen wrote NCAA President Mark Emmert a letter asking the organization to rethink its sports betting policy and examine bringing championship events to Las Vegas.

Nevada drone officials brace for industry growth

The administration expects that the number of commercial Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) units will be 10 times larger than it was in 2016, according to its recently released annual Aerospace Forecast Report.

‘Super Saturday’ should solidify Kentucky Derby field for many horses

When the folks at Churchill Downs dreamed up the Kentucky Derby points system, I was skeptical at first. Not anymore. It has worked by producing fields of in-form horses that, for the most part, are also bred to race two turns.

Full list of beer-centric festivals and events in Las Vegas

There’s nothing like a beer festival to bring the community together. Friends, neighbors and total strangers just seem to bond better when they’re exploring new brews. Fortunately, Las Vegas is the home to beer-centric events year round.

Bill would ban most fracking in Nevada

A bill to ban fracking on non-federal lands in Nevada won approval in an Assembly Committee on Thursday after being amended to grandfather in existing permittees.