When Steve Buuck stepped into the auditorium of over 200 students at Faith Lutheran Middle and High School in November to pitch a new after-school offering, he had 90 seconds to win them over.
The Kats! Bureau was all over the scene in ‘18. We close the year with a crash of cymbals and my year-end column in the form of my own awards to the deserving in VegasVille. These honors are heartfelt, mirthsome and — I stress — non-binding.
A 16-year-old boy has died after collapsing during a high-school basketball practice in Queens.
UNLV will offera new unmanned aerial systems certification program in the upcoming spring semester, broadening the local workforce’s skillset as the demand for drone pilots increases across industries.
Callisha Lakota, 62, died of unknown causes about 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center’s medical facility in Carson City.
Free Christmas tree recycling is available at more than 30 Las Vegas Valley locations beginning Thursday and continuing through mid-January.
Live traffic cameras show bumper-to-bumper traffic Wednesday near the Nevada-California stateline following Christmas weekend.
Royce Feour, the boxing writer who covered the sport’s most iconic fights for the Review-Journal over nearly four decades and whose career led to enshrinement in at least four halls of fame, died this month after a long illness.
Judge Stefany Miley, who has served on the bench since 2005, faces one count of battery domestic violence under her maiden name stemming from an incident that occurred Saturday, according to Las Vegas municipal court records.
U.S. stocks surged Wednesday, recovering all their losses from a Christmas Eve plunge and placing the market on track for its best day in nine months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up than 1,000 points in best day for Wall Street in 10 years.
Barring some “major surprise,” builders this year will close more than 10,000 sales for the first time since 2008, Home Builders Research President Andrew Smith and founder Dennis Smith wrote in Monday’s report.
The SERVPRO First Responder Bowl between No. 23 Boise State and Boston College has been canceled because of the threat of severe weather after a delay of nearly an hour and a half.
LeBron James got good news Wednesday on his injured groin.
New Jersey state police say a crash involving a car and a tanker truck on the Garden State Parkway has left four people dead. The accident was reported around 2:50 a.m. Wednesday in the southbound lanes near mile marker 81.5 in Toms River.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are spending the day after Christmas visiting with U.S. troops in Iraq.
Frontier Airlines has launched new nonstop flights between Las Vegas and a pair of Mexican resort destinations.
It’s ice, ice baby — a supercool adult beverage to warm you up for a hot 2019. Cinnaspresso at Minus5 Ice Experience is a blend of cinnamon whiskey, coffee liqueur and light cream with a candy cane garnish.
The Clark County coroner has identified a 41-year-old mother who was killed in a crash on Christmas Eve in North Las Vegas.
Southern Nevada prices were up 12.8 percent year-over-year in October, compared to a 5.5 percent bump nationally, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index released Wednesday.
A man who was struck and killed by a car last week in northwest Las Vegas has been identified.
Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves will be at the PKWY Tavern on West Flamingo Road near the 215 Beltway on Thursday to launch his beer.
Mention his reported Nobel Peace Prize nomination to Jose Andres, and the most you’re likely to get in reply is a shrug, perhaps a smile. The chef is a bit more willing to talk about World Central Kitchen, the organization he founded in the wake of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
The book at Pearl River Resort is packed every college football Saturday, but remains an outlier months after the high court opened the door for expanded sports gambling across the United States by striking down a federal ban.
While members of Congress and President Donald Trump continue to battle over the federal budget, visitors to the country’s national parks and recreation areas can expect to find limited services and maybe some closures.
Michael Symon isn’t exactly a Las Vegas newbie; now 49, he’s been coming here since he was 21. But Symon, whose collection of restaurants is nearing two dozen, only recently opened his first Las Vegas spot, Mabel’s BBQ, at the Palms (with Sara’s to follow early next year).
In Britain and other countries like Australia and Canada, the day after Christmas is a secular national holiday known as Boxing Day. Here’s a brief look at some theories about how the holiday got its name and how people celebrate it.
The packages are delivered, the reindeer have been fed and next years naughty-or-nice list can wait til the new year. Santa has a few days to unwind. What to do … what to do? Our photo archives hold the proof: Vegas baby!
A 25-year-old man facing murder charges in death of a man whose body was found in southeast Las Vegas turned himself in at the Clark County Detention Center on Christmas Eve, police said Wednesday.
A federal judge ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died shortly after being released from that country.
Authorities were searching Wednesday for a gunman who shot and killed a police officer during a traffic stop in California.