Southern Nevada Water Authority Board members Thursday showered retiring General Manager Pay Mulroy with glowing praise, a standing ovation and a gift: a panoramic, black-and-white photograph of Lake Mead in better times. She will retire Feb. 6 after nearly 25 years at the helm of the Las Vegas Valley Water District and almost as long as the authority’s first — and only — GM.
A replica Chinese terra-cotta saddle horse was unveiled Thursday at the Desert Research Institute.
Since there has never been a more truth-in-band-name than The Guess Who? Trust the voice.
Tom Cotter has played both the comedy clubs and a big room on the Strip. But this weekend in the suburbs is his first Las Vegas billing as a headliner.
The family of a Phoenix woman who jumped to her death from the Hoover Dam bypass bridge said it would like to see higher guardrails and stronger security measures to deter suicides.
Complaints were lodged Thursday with the Nevada Commission on Ethics alleging Clark Count School Board members Chris Garvey and Linda Young spent taxpayer resources on campaigning.
An email might have saved Max Green’s life. A few years back, he was battling drug addiction, experiencing all the lows that come from chasing too many highs, draining his bank account, imperiling his career.
Pop punk outfit Fall Out Boy headlines the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Aug. 15, with New Politics.
During their stint on the main stage of annual heavy metal marathon the Mayhem Festival this past summer, Sweden’s Amon Amarth performed with the hull of viking ship jutting out from the stage.
The Doors were a sum of seemingly ill-fitting parts: a jazz drummer, a classically trained pianist on keys, a frontman who fancied himself as much of a poet as a singer and a guitarist weened on flamenco more than rock ’n’ roll.
The action-comedy that’s light on both elements finds Ben (Kevin Hart), a high-school security guard who’s just been accepted into Atlanta’s police academy, trying to impress James (Ice Cube), a celebrated detective and the overly protective brother of Ben’s girlfriend, Angela (Tika Sumpter).
The Las Vegas Events board on Thursday began evaluating a counteroffer made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to keep the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas but did not make a decision on the PRCA proposal.
Classical music: Philharmonic salutes state: It’s a Silver State salute Saturday as the Las Vegas Philharmonic celebrates Nevada’s sesquicentennial with a Smith Center concert themed “Battle Born — Nevada Proud.”
Carlos Enrique Barron told a jury Thursday he was scared and tired the night he fired his gun after a confrontation with crew members from a reality TV production.
Follow the link for a list of the area’s top wrestling records by weight class (as submitted by coaches).
Friday is Nevada’s judicial election filing deadline, the day when state Supreme Court Justices Mark Gibbons and Kris Pickering and 34 of the 52 district judges in Clark County watch the clock and find it difficult to concentrate on their work.
WASHINGTON — Congress departed Thursday for a weeklong break with no solution in sight for Americans whose federal unemployment checks stopped arriving late last month. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., said new talks are underway in a bid to extend jobless benefits that expired Dec. 28, creating uncertainty and hardship for more than 1.4 million jobseekers, including more than 17,000 in Nevada.
A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die — more than 20 minutes — in an execution carried out Thursday in Ohio with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S.
Meet David Harris of “Thunder From Down Under.” He was a cast member of the wildly popular New Zealand reality series “Strip Search,” about guys forming a male dance revue.
In coordination with Green Valley High School’s premiere production of “Mary Poppins,” the theater department will host Supercalifragilistic Teas on Feb. 1 and 8. The teas will include appearances by characters from the production.
Sunday is National Popcorn Day, and there’s plenty popping in local restaurants.
Yes, the show is called “Panda!” And huggable, roly-poly pandas you get, from the moment they come bouncing down the aisles to kick off the opening acrobatics in their bamboo forest.
Three Grammy nominees will DJ on the Strip this weekend. Zedd performs Saturday at Light nightclub. Calvin Harris spends Friday at MGM’s Hakkasan. And Sultan and New Shepard will be at XS in the Wynn Las Vegas on Friday.
UNLV did more than give football coach Bobby Hauck a new three-year contract and raise.
Club revelers will see porn stars at several clubs this weekend, because Vegas is again hosting the porn awards (the Adult Video News awards) and the porn convention (the Adult Entertainment Expo).
People in Las Vegas were at a loss Thursday afternoon when they began noticing heart-shaped clouds in the sky.
Congress sent President Barack Obama a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday, easing the harshest effects of last year’s automatic budget cuts after tea party critics chastened by October’s partial shutdown mounted only a faint protest.
The year was 2002, and popular Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn was running for re-election.
