Grifone wine is a dark crimson-purplish red color with a dense opaque core going out into a fine light-violet rim definition with medium viscosity.
Pot Liquor C.A.S. — for “contemporary American smokehouse” — opened last week at Town Square. It specializes in, as you might imagine, smoked meats, but also Southern foods.
In a few days, UNLV will be welcoming Intel’s “Cherry Creek” supercomputer, which was ranked in 2013 as the 400th fastest supercomputer in the world and the 41st most energy-efficient and powerful computer in the world.
Coming to terms with the poor performance of Nevada’s school system has been an education for policymakers, elected officials, business leaders and taxpayers alike. Although the state’s ultimate measures of success — high school graduation rates and the value of high school diplomas — rate among the nation’s worst overall, Nevada has many excellent schools with excellent teachers, leaders and education models.
As a general rule, Congress does more harm than good. If the opposite were true, the legislative branch wouldn’t have an approval rating that’s fast approaching single digits. But federal lawmakers can still do some good when they focus on giving Americans opportunity instead of telling them what they can’t do; when they enable economic freedom rather than stifle it through taxation and regulation.
Nevada’s political establishment may think the recent Tesla incentive deal is the greatest thing since the repeal of the state’s usury law to attract a giant credit-card processing center to town, but outside the Silver State, the reaction is a bit more jaundiced.
Cristopher Pulido scored two goals to help Mojave’s boys soccer team rally from a 1-0 halftime deficit Tuesday and post a 3-1 win at Faith Lutheran.
Ethan Lancanienta and Daniel Vekanovic went 3-0 in doubles Tuesday to help Sierra Vista’s boys tennis team to a 13-5 win over visiting Western.
A major data breach that recently attacked millions of customers at Home Depot hardware stores across the country has created some hefty work for a local Nevada financial institution.
A conservative group visits Nevada as it tours battleground states to lobby Republican officials and politicians to back gay marriage in the national party’s 2016 platform.
The NFL players’ union has appealed the league’s indefinite suspension of Ray Rice.
Matt Johnson appreciates the recognition, but even the Coronado girls volleyball coach is a bit skeptical of his team’s lofty national rankings.
Cayla Nikodemus had 14 kills and five digs Tuesday to help Faith Lutheran’s girls volleyball team to a 25-23, 25-23, 25-19 win over visiting Sierra Vista.
Sabrina Schnur shot an 11-over-par 83 at Spanish Trail on Tuesday to lead Bishop Gorman’s girls golf team to victory in a Southwest League match.
The city of Las Vegas billed it as a “town hall” meeting to answer questions about a proposed downtown soccer stadium, but Tuesday’s session also turned out to be a pep talk by city staff, its private partners and even Mayor Carolyn Goodman to sell the stadium proposal.
Matt Johnson appreciates the recognition, but even the Coronado girls volleyball coach is a bit skeptical of his team’s lofty national rankings.
No longer a hurricane, tropical storm Odile should still have valley residents on alert for possible flash floods this week. The National Weather Service instated a 36-hour flash flood watch from Wednesday morning until Thursday night as Odile pushes moisture into the valley area.
Almost half of all tickets for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be sold for $30 or less in a bid to make the Games “as affordable as possible,” the organising committee said on Tuesday.
Las Vegas police are asking the public for help in finding a man they say is behind a string of business robberies this month. The man enters businesses posing as a customer, police said. When the store employee opens the register, the man flashes a handgun and grabs cash from the drawer.
Let’s not call this a “beer run.” That has such a… Friday night frat boy connotation. Let’s instead call this a “beer journey.” The ultimate beer journey. For the ultimate cult beer.
The Washington Nationals are again champions of the NL East, wrapping up their second division title in three years against the team that knocked them out of the top spot last season.
The Baltimore Orioles won their first AL East crown since 1997, using home runs by Steve Pearce and Jimmy Paredes to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-2 Tuesday night before a boisterous crowd of 35,297 at Camden Yards.
Chicago starting pitcher Jake Arrieta had a no-hit shutout going through seven innings, but gave up a double with one out in the eighth inning to lose the bid.
When owner and president Meir Cohen recently decided he needed to concentrate on the business side of the Las Vegas Legends pro indoor soccer team, he had the ideal candidate to replace him as coach right down the road.
A Bullhead City man facing a murder charge in the slaying of of his friend’s 8-year-old daughter was getting high on methamphetamine before the child was reported missing and later found buried in a shallow grave, according to police records released Tuesday.
A federal judge Tuesday once more delayed the long-awaited federal trial of former construction company boss Leon Benzer and five others in a massive scheme to take over Las Vegas-area homeowners associations.
If you were intrepid enough to climb aboard his vast rear end, he would either throw you on yours or help you score around 92 points.
Amid action in Congress to intensify the fight against Islamic State militants, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found time Tuesday for an issue closer to home: ensuring that a nuclear waste dump in his home state of Nevada remains mothballed even after the government has spent $15 billion on it.
Clark County might give $2.4 million to help the Animal Foundation’s regional shelter that houses thousands of animals each year.
