Green Valley Presbyterian Church, 1798 Wigwam Parkway, Henderson, will present a concert by Celebrity City Chorus, a member of Sweet Adelines International, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. A goodwill offering will be received (454-8484).
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Sky Sox, Drew Carpenter
(2-7); 51s, Sean Henn (1-2)
Older single women have become a sought-after voting bloc in the country’s elections in the past few years.
June 4 marked the end of the line for the 2013 Legislature, as well as the end of the line for a handful of lawmakers. They’ll soon move on from their state Senate or Assembly posts because of term limits.
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand’s South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online.
Jerry Rice Jr., son of NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice, tweeted Friday he will transfer to UNLV.
It took more than two hours for police negotiators to coax a homicide suspect barricaded in his North Las Vegas apartment to surrender Friday night, an ordeal that unfolded as SWAT teams kept their automatic weapons trained on the residence.
Congress is nearing a deadline to reach a deal to keep rates on some student loans from doubling. If it doesn’t act by July 1, Rick Hannu and Manuel Villarreal could be driven further into debt to earn their degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
A Nevada amendment to immigration reform hit a roadblock this week in the U.S. Senate but leaders say it likely will be considered at some point later during debate.
Las Vegas water officials will have to wait until later this year — if not longer — to learn the fate of their $15 billion pipeline to eastern Nevada.
Hundreds of people gathered Friday at a funeral in Reno to pay tribute to Barbara Vucanovich, the first woman sent to Congress from Nevada.
Anti-nuclear and environmental activists are urging Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval to turn away shipments of potent uranium waste planned for burial in a government-managed desert landfill.
LAS VEGAS – Sin City’s largest union picketed the Las Vegas Strip for the third time this year on Friday.
A China-based company’s plan to build a solar energy plant south of Laughlin and create hundreds jobs has died.
A Las Vegas businessman who developed the Grand Canyon Skywalk glass bridge in northwestern Arizona and later became entangled in legal battles about it has died in Los Angeles, a company representative said Friday.
Under a new policy intended to foster greater transparency in officer-involved shootings, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Friday gave more details behind a June 4 incident in which a 49-year-old man was shot at twice after police say he pointed a black cellphone at a responding officer.
A family court hearing master is no longer an employee of the Clark County District Court System, a court official confirmed Friday.
A former assistant property manager for the U.S. General Services Administration in Las Vegas pleaded guilty Friday to lying to federal agents and tampering with a witness in a criminal investigation.
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings wants answers about former BLM chief Bob Abbey’s role in the Chris Milam-BLM land deal in the city of Henderson — and expressed disappointment this week that he’s not getting any response from the Department of the Interior, which oversees the BLM.
A Las Vegas man was charged with murder in the death of a 16-month-old girl, according to a police arrest report.
A man accused of hoarding 58 live pets and just as many dead ones at his Sparks home is facing four counts of animal cruelty.
One person was arrested after an overnight blaze damaged the entrance of a Las Vegas-area Baptist church, fire officials said Friday.
A Clark County jury acquitted a 56-year-old man of murder charges for the stabbing death of another man in January.
Summerlin resident Christian Schoyen is out to raise the social consciousness of the community by highlighting those who help others. He’s producing a new television show, “Hometown Heroes,” on KCLV Channel 2.
Justin Hoey wasn’t going back to prison. He planned to die.
Do you have a $100,000 to throw at an invention? That’s how much the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development and the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization plan to award a lucky business through Project Vesto.
The leader of a counterfeit credit card ring was sentenced Thursday to 81 months in prison.
NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp., the second-biggest U.S. lender, rewarded staff with cash bonuses and gift cards for meeting quotas tied to sending distressed homeowners into foreclosure, former employees said in court documents.
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Slots player turns $25 bet into $1.2M at Nevada casino
I-15 reopens after closure, barricade event in North Las Vegas
Fill a truck for $100 at Tropicana liquidation sale
Restaurant closing after more than a decade on Las Vegas Strip
Roommates’ dispute turns deadly in northwest Las Vegas neighborhood