An outdoor concert venue and a recent comedy festival both expand the diversity of ticketed entertainment downtown.
The mother of the CEO of the ride-hailing company Uber died in a boat accident Friday evening in Fresno County, the company said.
“Men of the Strip” was to have opened last Thursday, but creator and co-producer Jeff Timmons is buying time for some buzz.
Rob Lyons originated the role of Carl Perkins in “Million Dollar Quartet” at Harrah’s. He and his family are leaving soon to chase career opportunities in London.
Police said Saturday they’ll examine what appears to be the extremist ideology of an Oregon man accused of fatally stabbing two men who tried to intervene when the suspect yelled racial slurs at two young women who appeared to be Muslim on a Portland light-rail train.
The Legislature’s two money committees got back to work Saturday after the Assembly worked past midnight passing bills to meet a deadline for second house passage.
A juvenile is in critical condition Saturday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle in the far southwestern Las Vegas Valley.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed 19 more bills into law Saturday, after signing the same number late Friday night and issuing two vetoes. The flurry of bill action comes as the 2017 Legislature sprints toward a June 5 finish line.
A man died after an early Saturday shooting in a North Las Vegas business complex parking lot.
Gregg Allman, whose soulful vocals made the Allman Brothers Band one of rock’s top acts in the 1970s with songs such as “Ramblin’ Man” in a career also marred by tragedy and drug abuse, died on Saturday at the age of 69, his official website said.
On his first foreign trip as president, President Donald Trump, a onetime isolationist, found forgiveness and bonhomie from leaders and nations he trolled during the 2016 campaign.
Mexican immigrant Jose Luis Gutierrez faced a stark choice in the early 1980s. Keep his Las Vegas home or his struggling local tortilla production business.
Summer for Americans is a time of backyard barbecues, baseball and beer. Memorial Day weekend is a perfect chance to sitoutside with the season’s first sixer, and the varieties of beer you can pick up at the local grocer have multiplied.
In his debut at Treasuer Island, Joel McHale recalls putting Chevey Chase on the ground with a self-defense move — Chase asked for it — and was mistaken for Daniel Tosh in a newspaper interview.
As far as Jonathan Warren can tell, Liberace never played a concert in Paris. But Liberace did visit Paris for the first time in 1955.
Jim Bunning, who showed much of the same combativeness as a U.S. congressman as he had done during his Hall of Fame career as a hard-throwing pitcher in baseball’s major leagues, died at the age of 85, his son said on Saturday.
Vernice “Lucky” Gaar, 91, and Frank Costa, 99, traveled similar paths without ever meeting until they recently shared a bronze-worthy moment during a trip to the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C.
Students of Professor Bo Bernhard were asked to write a proposal for an integrated resort to be built in Japan. They had to consider mission statements, design elements, marketing and branding strategies and to make them fit within Japanese cultural expectations.
At a bar, you might think they are a gang. Most of the members are tatted and wear jackets with the logo of their crew, “Hammer & Cycle,” in a giant red patch on the back.
Because of underfunding and Catholic Charities’ desire to reach as many seniors as possible with its Meals on Wheels program,the agency provides lower cost “flash frozen” nutritious meals to seniors. It currently costs the agency about $5.12 to make, package and deliver a meal while it can cost around $9 to deliver a hot one.
Nashville’s decision to trade for defenseman P.K. Subban appears to have been successful as Subban has been one of the leaders in the Predators’ march to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in franchise history.
Handicapper Alex Smith (AxSmithSports.com) is backing the Predators at plus-140 on the money line Monday over the Penguins in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
In keeping with the pedal-to-the-metal theme of Memorial Day Weekend, Las Vegas drivers, teams, races play a big part in annual celebration of speed.
The most recent recruiting class not only excited UNLV basketball fans, but got the attention of national experts. They said the bar has been raised considerably for the Rebels.
Inside their 9,800-square-foot studio located in the shadow of the Strip, Larry and Barbara Domsky conjure rainbow-hued creations in glass.
Las Vegas North Premium Outlets, a Simon Property Group-owned shopping center where four-fifths of the shoppers are tourists, has tinkered with ways to lure in more local shoppers.
Gardeners who haven’t started their summer garden can still get some fruits and vegetables into the ground and harvest their crop by summer’s end. The best suggestion is to plant cantaloupe. A fresh, end-of-summer cantaloupe from your backyard is sweet and flavorful and so much more delicious than the melons from Honduras and Guatemala currently sitting in grocery stores.
Q: I would like to grow my own rhubarb. Could you tell me where I can find the plant or the bulb, and when would be a good season to start?
“Color speaks all languages.” — Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English dramatist, The Spectator (1711)