Nevada’s biggest school district will get $34.2 million this year to help poor students or those learning English stay on track academically — all but $1.8 million of the funding allocated by the Legislature.
The Southern Nevada homeless population increased slightly over the last year, but the number remains lower than the high of recent years.
We all know how downright life-threatening our weather is at this time of year, and homeless people can’t escape it.
Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani threw a Hail Mary pass on Thursday by suggesting that traffic improvements surrounding the new Raiders stadium should be funded by the project’s developers.
Former Nevada U.S. Attorney Greg Brower, the FBI’s top liaison with Congress as lawmakers investigate Russian election meddling, has been sanctioned in an 8-year-old sex discrimination case that has shaken up the Las Vegas federal prosecutor’s office.
Catch popular music festival performer Marshmello on Saturday when he entertains at Encore Beach Club’s NightSwim pool party. Doors open at 10:30 p.m. Tickets start at $35 for men and $25 for women (encorebeachclub.com).
Dallas Mavericks rookie point guard Dennis Smith Jr., the No. 9 overall pick in the NBA draft, had plenty of opportunities to veer over to what Fayetteville, North Carolina, residents call “the other side of the tracks.”
The fire was reported at about 2:20 p.m. Thursday at 1 W. Mayflower Ave., dispatch logs show.
Get ready to groove to the sounds of Earth, Wind & Fire on Friday when the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers perform at 8 p.m. in The Pearl at the Palms. Tickets are $69 to $189; call 702-944-3200.
It takes more than a little “24K Magic” to abracadabra yourself tickets to Bruno Mars’ ongoing residency at the Monte Carlo’s Park Theater.
The time to end the fiasco of underfunding the school district has come.
Film noir gets a comic twist in Adam Szymkowicz’s mature-audiences “Clown Bar,” in which an oversized-shoe gumshoe sets out to avenge a murder and rekindle an old flame.
If your name is George, you’re going to like the 12th-anniversary celebration at Triple George, 201 N. Third St.
If you’re looking for stellar fried chicken, you want to trust a Southerner.
An ATM was dispensing handwritten notes scribbled with a plea for help on Wednesday in Corpus Christi, Texas, after a repairman got stuck inside.
The day may have arrived for juggling the dates of the Electric Daisy Carnival.
Nevada drone officials are getting in on e-commerce.
President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron set aside lingering differences on climate change during their meeting in France on Thursday, asserting that it shouldn’t prevent them from working together toward a post-war roadmap for Syria and to enhance Mideast security.
While the name is taken from an AC/DC song, this Sand Dollar Lounge drink is, in fact, pink, and quite easy to sink.
It took Nevada gaming regulators two days of hearings to reach a decision on whether to recommend the licensing of a Las Vegas table-game company executive.
If you know the Pony and the Monkey aren’t animals … If you know the Mashed Potato isn’t a side dish …
Here are five things you need to know about the disco-era greats ahead of this weekend’s show.
Steve Wynn’s fight with Japanese businessman Kazuo Okada could hamper the Las Vegas billionaire’s chances to win a major casino license on the Asian island nation, according to research firm Morningstar.
He impaled a generation of hearts with his pen.
It turns out you really can get audiences excited about seeing an acclaimed movie that deals with moral complexity, war crimes and how many monstrous acts someone would commit against his friends simply to survive. You just have to make sure that most of the characters are monkeys.
The Nevada Department of Transportation is negotiating a $58 million contract with Ames Construction to widen a five-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 93 near the Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas.
Here are your Thursday afternoon headlines.
Visa is looking to push more small businesses into updating their digital payment technology, offering up to $10,000 each to 50 U.S.-based small business owners that are committed to going cashless.
One woman is dead and four other people are critically injured after a nighttime explosion on a houseboat along the Utah-Arizona border, authorities said Thursday.
Del Mar and Saratoga racetracks offer a welcome respite to horseplayers tired of trying to wring a profit out of too many five- and six-horse races, but even they aren’t immune to the worsening horse shortage problem.