From the Moapa Zoo to O.J. Simpson to the Bunkhouse Saloon, here’s a look back at some of the people and places we wrote about this year.
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Major League Soccer wants to expand from 24 to 28 teams. Las Vegas, which has made a pitch before for an expansion club, is not on the current short list.
The owners of the new MGM Resorts International-AEG arena on the Strip are launching a new VIP club membership deal that will allow a member to buy a ticket for the vast majority of events at the $375 million venue that opens in April.
Bulldozers Thursday were preparing the 3,000-foot dirt race course packed with 24 teeth-rattling jumps, a 150-foot turn that extends into a seating section and a 100-foot triple-jump sending motorcycle racers airborne at this weekend’s Monster Energy Cup at Sam Boyd Stadium.
UNLV officials are looking at commercial developments including a 30,000-square-foot entertainment building, restaurants and retail stores as possible money-makers to help buy a 42-acre stadium site at Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane.
One year of construction has been completed and there’s one year to go before the newest entertainment venue in Las Vegas will open.
Las Vegans will not get a chance to weigh in on millions of dollars in public soccer stadium subsidies after all.
The city of Las Vegas spent $3.1 million on a failed soccer stadium project in Symphony Park, according to a staff report presented to City Council members Wednesday.
Plans to spend public money on a proposed Las Vegas soccer stadium might have flat-lined, but city leaders aren’t quite ready to sign the death certificate.
The MLS snub ends years of planning and controversy over public subsidies for a downtown stadium.
It’s easy to get a new soccer stadium that Las Vegas taxpayers may not want. Just call it something else. Stadium subsidy opponents fear that’s the reasoning behind a bill set for introduction at City Hall next week.
The new arena on the Strip is more than a year way from opening, but it has landed its first major sponsor — a global brand name unusual for a big-time sports and entertainment facility.
Las Vegas voters should get a chance to weigh in on using public funds to help pay for a controversial downtown soccer stadium, a judge decided Friday.
Clark County leaders don’t like Las Vegas’ plan to build a county-subsidized stadium parking garage in Symphony Park, but they’ll need a lot of help to stop it.
Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers and dozens of soccer stadium subsidy opponents plan to make their last stand in front of City Hall on Friday.
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Officials shared boating safety tips Wednesday at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Safety while boating at the lake has long been an issue, leading to several deaths almost every year since 2000.
Roidan Durruthy Mendoza is accused of killing his estranged wife and injuring three others during a shooting at an apartment complex in August.
A 70-year-old man died in Death Valley after suffering a medical event while driving.
Art by Las Vegas Valley students from elementary, middle, high school and college will be voted on through June 5 for the first-ever Sphere XO Student Design Challenge.
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