At Des Moines, Iowa, the series-opening game between the 51s and Iowa Cubs was postponed Monday because of rain.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway could get a fall NASCAR race to go with its annual March event, making it a part of the Chase for the Sprint Cup playoffs, according to the speedway owner.
To search for a superintendent or not? After almost three months of back and forth, the Clark County School Board still couldn’t come to a decision Monday night despite holding a four-and-a-half-hour meeting to answer that “simple question,” as one high school teacher put it during public comment.
Until Saturday night, most of what I knew about the ancient sport of lacrosse is that Jim Brown and Johns Hopkins were good at it.
The pending court-martial of a Nellis Air Force Base officer for sexual assault is among the latest in what the Air Force’s top general says is a crisis that can be traced to a lack of respect for women — a culture that the Nellis base commander has vowed to change.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. shuffled its upper management Monday, appointing former Las Vegas Sands Corp. Tom Arasi as president of hospitality.
Rohit Joshi wasn’t waiting for customers to come to him. No, his team was actively recruiting them Monday at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual convention, RECon.
It would be easy for Cain Velasquez to be overconfident heading into his rematch against Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva in the main event of UFC 160 Saturday night at the MGM Grand.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board confirmed Monday that it is investigating Cantor Gaming and the Las Vegas-based company’s former sports book director, Mike Colbert.
The extinct horse, known as Equus scotti, has been definitively identified from bones recovered from a northwest Las Vegas hillside
In front of a standing-room-only audience at RECon, the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual convention, keynote speaker Randi Zuckerberg told the retail real estate industry that nothing replaces the intangible experience of walking into a store.
There were years they won the most awards, but never THE award for best Clark County high school newspaper.
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. He had been stricken by bile duct cancer.
The buying fever that is heating up residential resales is spreading to the local apartment market.
A doctor who worked closely with Dr. Dipak Desai testified Monday that he still struggles to believe that the hepatitis C outbreak that spread through Desai’s clinics stemmed from unsafe anesthetic injections. Dr. Vishvinder Sharma said he never witnessed nurse anesthetists reuse vials of propofol, adding that the procedure room was dark and he was focused on the monitor while performing upper endoscopies or colonoscopies.
Las Vegas police have identified an 18-year-old man as the second suspect in a fatal shooting last month on Fremont Street. Darion Muhammad-Coleman is wanted in the April 19 death of Dale Borero. Authorities consider him armed and dangerous.
CARSON CITY— Senate Finance Committee members backed a bill Monday that would require full-day kindergarten in all Nevada elementary schools, but removed a requirement to provide state funds to carry out that mandate.
RENO – Two more of Harvey Whittemore’s former employees testified Monday they each voluntarily contributed $4,600 to Sen. Harry Reid’s campaign in 2007 at the suggestion of the wealthy ex-developer and lobbyist but didn’t fear for their jobs if they didn’t do so.
CARSON CITY – A national Republican organization on Monday sued Secretary of State Ross Miller for failing to turn over what it says are public records detailing his travel, cell phone information, compensation and public schedule.
Tina Kunzer-Murphy has been named interim athletic director at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
This time of year, and it’s hard to sit still while you’re in school.
Students from the Clark County School District’s mariachi and ballet folklorico programs are slated to participate in the 2012 Latin Chamber of Commerce Mariachi Festival starting May 22.
On a 20-1 vote, state senators on Monday passed a bill that would allow people who are not in the country legally to acquire driver authorization cards. Four states, including Utah and New Mexico, already allow people who are not in the U.S. legally to drive.
Despite setbacks causing Cowabunga Bay Water Park to postpone its scheduled opening on Memorial Day weekend, the company is anticipating its slated debut in spring 2014.
Henderson election season continues as incumbent Mark Stevens and Sandra Allred DiGiacomo battle for the Municipal Court Judge Department 1 seat.
Cornerstone Park hasn’t officially opened yet, but that hasn’t stopped Henderson resident Terrell Chandler and others from using it.
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Vegas Loop tunnel reaches off-Strip resort
Holzhauer doesn’t go all-in, reflects on loss in ‘Jeopardy! Masters’
Restaurant closing after more than a decade on Las Vegas Strip
North Strip casino taking unlimited free parking away
‘I just hope she’s in a safe place’: More than 40 children missing in Nevada