According to a published story, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has transported over 1,500 mentally ill patients to cities across the nation by Greyhound bus over the last five years.
Health Plan of Nevada must pay $500 million in punitive damages for its role in the 2008 hepatitis C outbreak, a jury decided Tuesday.
A story in Friday’s paper on mom-and-pop businesses in downtown Las Vegas reported an incorrect opening date for Globe Salon. Co-owner James Reza said he and Staci Linklater opened the business in 2000 and relocated it to downtown in 2008.
Steve Schirripa, the former Riviera entertainment director who hit it big on “The Sopranos,” is still churning out new projects.
Children are important. America’s political left and right agree on that.
The threat of lawsuits over coal-fired power plants may have played a role. But no one who’s watched Nevada politics would discount the behind-the-scenes power of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who seems curiously enamored with any number of subsidy-dependent wind and solar energy installations in our area.
It’s amazing at times to consider how much gambling the Nevada Resort Association wants to prevent, rather than to promote.
Thousands of miles of track once connected Nevada towns with the transcontinental railroads. From territorial days to modern times, at least 70 railroads operated in the state, both standard and narrow gauge. Built to move ore from mines to mills, the lines also carried freight and passengers.
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I bet you didn’t even know there is a new “Tiger Woods” golf game on the market. “Tiger” used to arrive with a roar every year. Now its arrival seems as quiet as a golf gallery.
Dress for Success, a group of volunteers committed to helping women along paths to professional and economic independence, raised funds with a reception and silent auction followed by “Springtime in Paris” luncheon and fashion show at Paris Las Vegas on April 5.
If you’ve never been to a Garbage Tree show, here’s what to expect: intricate instrumentation, heavy metal riffage and a mane of blond hair whipping you straight in the face.
Knelt down in a runner’s stance, eyes closed, mind clear, you’re only thinking about the race ahead, praying that it’s good and clean.
You can lead a 16-year-old kid to a 5k race, but you can’t make him run it.
Sixty-two-year-old Doug Franck studied history in college. Upon graduation from California State University, Northridge, his work life included nearly everything except his original goal: teaching history.
The single weightiest and greatest predictor of outcome is the starting point. That’s what all the social scientists say. And they are correct. Statistically and otherwise.
The Cactus and Succulent Society of Southern Nevada and Moon-Sun Cactus & Koi Gardens are hosting the Cactus Show and Art Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and April 21 at Moon-Sun Cactus & Koi Gardens at 6430 McGill Ave. in Las Vegas.
Anyone who knows certain blinged-out magicians in Las Vegas also knows their blinged-out manager.
Last week, The Center opened a new $4 million building in downtown Las Vegas. The 16,000-square-foot Robert L. Forbuss Building is The Center’s first freestanding building in its 20-year history.
Depending on which decade you grew up in, high school prom can conjure up images of chiffon dresses swaying back and forth to The Supremes or doing your best running man with a pager clipped to your tuxedo cummerbund.
Bill Weidner has put his 14 years as president of Las Vegas Sands Corp. in the rear view mirror. Last month, Global Gaming Asset Management, which Weidner operates with former Las Vegas Sands executives Brad Stone and Garry Saunders, opened the first phase of Solaire, a planned $1.2 billion hotel-casino at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
Long before she moved to Nevada, Dilek Samil marveled from afar at NV Energy.
The UNLV men’s golf team was 12th after two rounds of the 54-hole Morris Williams Invitational in Austin, Texas.
Out of the mouths of 8-year-old athletes sometimes come pearls — including the word “apparatus.”
Sierra Vista’s Tyler Burdett took a 1-and-2 curveball that just missed ending the game. But when Zach Rickard came back with another breaking ball, Burdett jumped all over it.