With a deadline looming and President Donald Trump weighing options, Nevada federal employees were in the nation’s capital Wednesday to urge Congress and the White House to avoid another painful shutdown.
One of the few Moët Chandon vending machines in the country is in the 23rd-floor Sky Lobby of the Waldorf Astoria on the Las Vegas Strip.
Nevada Lawmakers want to create a 25-member commission that will study the best performing educational systems — both nationally and internationally — and bring those practices to the Silver State.
The Regional Transportation Committee of Southern Nevada put out a call for projects last year offering a competitive grant to help further economic development, according to Johanna Murphy, the city’s principal planner. North Las Vegas received the grant, which will pay for “livable center” construction.
Beginning Friday, the lobby of the South Strip Transfer Terminal near McCarran International Airport will be open 24 hours per day, seven days a week, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada announced Tuesday.
When Brenda Williams’s husband, Monroe, became one of the Las Vegas Fire Department’s first two African-American employees in July 1963, some of his new coworkers weren’t welcoming. After Monroe’s death in 2012 , Brenda found detailed accounts of the harsh treatment in notes Monroe had written before he died. He’d never told her about it.
The clip, which was released on the league’s YouTube channel Monday, features the Golden Knights forward visiting the Las Vegas barbershop Haircutz Don’t Lie and discussing how to make hockey more popular in the black community.
The lab, which will open Saturday and is in the former It’s Your Choice area, is divided into an open-making area for self-guided play and a work-space for guided activities.
Here are the latest Nevada Preps boys and girls basketball rankings.
Major league baseball pitchers and catchers reported to spring training this week. Jose Canseco reported to Mars. The former slugger posted on social media about leading a Bigfoot and alien excursion.
Here are the latest Nevada Preps boys basketball rankings.
Live shad and cut anchovies are bringing in stripers weighing 1-3 pounds between Hemenway Pier and Government Wash on Lake Mead.
Here are the latest Nevada Preps girls basketball rankings.
Haven’t made reservations for Valentine’s dinner yet? There are plenty of heart-shaped food options available for those last minute romantics.
Officers arrested a man who barricaded himself inside a northwest valley home Wednesday afternoon after threatening someone with a machete, Las Vegas police said.
The T.H.E. (Total Hair Experience) Salon at the downtown Veterans Village II complex will offer free makeovers, including hair-removal waxing if requested, to all new residents and serve current residents at cut-rate prices.
Natural gas utilities in Nevada could draw supply from renewable energy sources such as biogas under a measure introduced Wednesday in the Nevada Senate.
Five people suffered unspecified injuries when a Delta Airlines flight headed from Southern California to Seattle encountered severe turbulence and was forced to make an emergency landing in Reno.
If you are among those anglers who have recently joined us or thinking of making the move to Southern Nevada, rest assured there is plenty of fishing opportunity within a reasonable distance of the Las Vegas Valley.
Postmodern Jukebox is returning to the Strip in a residency engagement — a real residency of multiple shows per week, over multiple weeks —at Mirage’s 1Oak Nightclub
Nevada’s stalled gun background check law took another step on it’s all-but-sure path toward becoming reality Wednesday as the state Senate approved a legislative tweak to the language.
Las Vegas locals love their perks, and they can hold a grudge when those perks are taken away.
Prosecutors on Wednesday filed drug trafficking charges against tech billionare Henry T. Nicholas III, who bankrolled a victim’s right’s law that voters approved in November.
GameCo has been licensed in New Jersey and now wants to bring its portfolio of video games to Nevada’s casino floors.
A recently unsealed court document says a former contestant on both “American Idol” and “Fear Factor” worked as a courier for a drug ring and was trying to deliver nearly 2 pounds (830 grams) of fentanyl when she was arrested last year.
With one weekend of games under its belt, the AAF has already drawn interest from some bettors — not nearly the action of a typical NFL game but enough to encourage sportsbooks that the fledgling league’s games are worth offering on a betting menu.
NASA’s Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the red planet.
Another big snow storm with dangerous winds gusting in excess of 130 mph over the top of the Sierra is heading for the Lake Tahoe area.
When Galaxy Theatres opens its Boulevard Mall multiplex later this spring, it will be the home of the world’s first Sony Digital Cinema.