The 30th anniversary of the annual Festival of Communities was held on the Academic Mall to showcase the melting pot that is Las Vegas. People from all walks of life — from yogis to light saber performers — attended the festival, which was held in conjunction with Rebel Preview Day to let high school students and their families experience UNLV’s diversity.
Dylan Underwood, Erica Hardy, Tatum Spangler and Ashley Ward combined for eight of their team’s 10 hits Saturday and were center-stage in Coronado’s 4-1 victory over previously unbeaten Liberty.
Nigel Williams-Goss and Zach Collins combined for 37 points to lead Gonzaga past South Carolina 77-73 at the Final Four, while North Carolina held off Oregon 77-76 to advance to Monday’s title game.
Biskacky helped Durango win the boys distance medley Friday before winning both the 1,600-meter run and 3,200 run to earn male outstanding track athlete of the meet honors in the Blaine Thompson Memorial Track Classic at Desert Oasis.
UNLV officials are considering several options for Sam Boyd Stadium — including sale of the site — in light of approval for the Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas.
The Raiders will be on the lookout for a practice facility, and the Nevada Legislature set aside $100 million for such a project. They have several potential locations to scout, including Downtown Summerlin, where the Golden Knights are constructing their building.
The Raiders will have some key jobs that will need to be filled in Las Vegas. Some hires will have to be made before they leave Oakland.
Two people escaped a house fire in the east valley uninjured, the Clark County Fire Department said.
Detroit Lions safety Miles Killebrew, a Foothill High product, is one of many locals with NFL ties excited about the Raiders’ move to Las Vegas.
Southern Nevada construction industry experts say whoever ends up building the planned 65,000-seat stadium for the Las Vegas Raiders will face a massive challenge to get it done by the opening of the 2020 NFL season.
While teams who have fled well-established NFL cities all experienced similar logistical hardships and concerns, unique circumstances make a one-way-fits-all model impractical when it comes to backing up the moving trucks.
A man called 911 about 2:05 p.m. and told dispatchers he had “info on a dead body that could possibly be a homicide,” Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Grant Rogers said.
Dr. Tony Alamo, the chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission, said neither the NFL nor the NHL has requested any betting restrictions on their games.
The Raiders will play at the Oakland Coliseum in 2017. But then where does the nomadic silver-and-black call its temporary residence until 2020, when a domed 65,000-seat stadium in Las Vegas will be ready?
The story of how Reggie McKenzie went from burning on a hot seat as the Raiders began the 2014 season by losing their first 10 games to building an AFC playoff team.
It was a rough start for the Rebels during their Spring Showcase, but it was a good ending.
One person is hospitalized after a rollover and a multivehicle crash on U.S. Highway 95 near Rancho Drive on Saturday afternoon.
Between the weather, no state income tax, new facilities and an organization that is winning, NFL free agents would be encouraged to look at playing for the Raiders in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority spends taxpayer money on luxuries some government agencies would never be allowed to buy. The Review-Journal investigates.
Trent shot 1-over-par 73 on Saturday to win the 54-hole event by four strokes.
Jon Taffer has enlisted the support, and shown his own, in efforts backed by Larry Ruvo, Mike Severino and the hierarchy at UNLV.
Washington is looking to make a deep run in the Stanley Cup playoffs, so nobody is thinking about the Capitals’ past failures.
The future of partying on display at the Nightclub and Bar Show
I had two weeks of vacation time to burn before the end of the month. On principle, I refused to squander it sitting on the couch.
One could put together an entire roster of guys representing Southern Nevada high schools who have played in the big leagues, a significant percentage of whom are still playing.
Paul Son-Dice of Las Vegas, led by former UNLV Rebels Armon Gilliam, Sudden Sam Smith and Greg Goorjian, won the 1984 AAU men’s national basketball championship on home turf.
The Metropolitan Police Department identified officer Kevin Dumesic as the shooter in Thursday’s officer-involved shooting in the southwest valley.
While cancer has meant Kyle Silveroli can no longer protect Americans militarily as he hoped, he believes he can make a positive difference in lives by putting a face on recent research findings of cancer experts: Millennials, young people born between 1982 and 2004, now have double the risk of colon cancer and quadruple the risk of rectal cancer compared to baby boomers.
You wouldn’t expect to find Donald Trump hanging around in an office park near McCarran International Airport, but there he is.
A man accused of starting a raging fire that collapsed a portion of Interstate 85 a few miles north of downtown Atlanta was charged with arson Saturday.
