Bishop Gorman football stays unbeaten with Best of Nevada Preps award

Bishop Gorman football, winner of eight straight state titles and three consecutive mythical national championships, earned Team of the Year honors, and senior quarterback Tate Martell won the award for top football player at the 2017 Best of Nevada Preps awards ceremony.

Seven things to follow as Legislature comes to a close

With just hours until the Legislature reaches its constitutionally mandated deadline to adjourn Monday at midnight, there is more happening than just the battle for education savings accounts. Here are seven things to follow as the session winds down.

Albert Pujols hits 600th career homer, a grand slam

Albert Pujols hit his 600th career homer Saturday night, delivering a grand slam to become the ninth player in major league history to reach the mark.

Predators dominate Penguins, trail 2-1 in Stanley Cup Final

Roman Josi and Frederick Gaudreau scored 42 seconds apart in the second period, and the Predators beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-1 Saturday night to pull within 2-1 in the best-of-seven series.

Groups take split views on gun control at Sunset Park

Orange balloons and American flag T-shirts stood out at Sunset Park on Saturday as one group advocated for decreased gun violence and a counter protester group looked on.

Japanese legend Kazushi Sakuraba to enter UFC Hall of Fame

Kazushi Sakuraba fought in the UFC for just one night in 1997. But his impact on the sport extended far beyond that memorable event in Yokohama, Japan, and will be recognized with his induction into the organization’s Hall of Fame.

COMMENTARY: A postcard from the ‘forgotten America’

Urbanites accustomed to moving along with jobs and love interests can’t conceive of why quiet, abundant wildlife, vast tracts of greenery, church-going neighbors and family ties keep people so connected to small towns.

EDITORIAL: Bill would tilt balance of powers from Big Labor to workers

Americans should be free to join a labor organization, if they so choose. But workers must also be free to leave a union, to vote their conscience in a secret-ballot organizing election or to object when their mandatory dues are used to support causes they don’t support.

EDITORIAL: The endgame commences in Carson City

The next few days will reveal what that means for a host of issues, particularly the governor’s school choice plan, better known as Education Savings Accounts.

COMMENTARY: Nevada will fight Donald Trump’s plan to revive Yucca Mountain

Yucca Mountain is not a viable long-term solution to our country’s nuclear waste problem. Instead, the federal government should focuson implementing consent-based siting to store high-level nuclear waste in states that are willing to house it.

COMMENTARY: Should Americans die for Estonia?

But Trump’s refusal to utter those words does lower whatever probability Vladimir Putin might attach to America responding with any seriousness to Russian aggression against a NATO ally.

Despite threats, Uber and Lyft won’t leave Las Vegas

Nevada legislators and the public need to demand the same protections for Nevadans from Uber and Lyft that they provide in markets such as New York, Houston, California and other major destinations.

Ali taught Tyson about fame; boxing came later

Mike Tyson met Muhammad Ali when Tyson was admitted to a detention center. The young Tyson was impressed by Ali’s fame before he was enamored of boxing.

‘Phantom’ rigs the system at the Smith Center

“The Phantom of the Opera” is already giving Reynolds Hall a real workout. The show running through and its lead character are taking over the Smith Center’s, 2,050-seat theater with a depth and expansion rarely experienced in the big room.

Gaming stocks outperforming tech in 2017

U.S. gaming industry stocks such as Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts International have been on a roll this year amid solid gaming revenue growth in Las Vegas and Macau.

Sandoval vetoes two bills, signs 19 others on Saturday

Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed two more bills and signed 19 others on Saturday, including a bill requiring more reporting of suspected child abuse and neglect.

Volunteer rescuers get kudos at Spring Mountain fun run

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Search and Rescue team was supposed to demonstrate rescues with two helicopters Saturday following its Friends of Metro Search and Rescue 5k fun run at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, but one helicopter showed up late.

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