Bill King died in 2005. While his voice has been silenced, his legacy as one of sports’ most versatile and professional radio play-by-play announcers remains vibrant.
Need a plug for your electric car? The University of Nevada, Reno is making it easier for electric-vehicle owners to charge up.
State gaming regulators granted preliminary approval Wednesday for the sale of John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks to a private investment group.
Pinnacle completed its $2.8 billion purchase of Ameristar Casinos in late August and the casinos purchased from the acquired entity skewed third-quarter earnings.
North Las Vegas City Council members on Wednesday quietly and unanimously adopted a ban on Sunday new car sales, which will affect exactly zero city car dealerships.
Ryan Riess, a 23-year-old professional poker player from Las Vegas, declared himself the favorite in the days leading up to the final table of the 44th annual No-limit Texas Hold ’em World Championship. He then backed up his bravado by defeating Jay Farber in a heads-up tussle that lasted 91 hands and almost four hours.
Banks took an expected break from starting foreclosures in October, as a new state law governing home repossessions took effect.
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Evidence of Twitter burnout isn’t hard to find. Just look at the celebrities who — at one time or another — have taken a break from the service. The long list includes everyone from Jennifer Love-Hewitt to Miley Cyrus to “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof.
Marnell Gaming LLC, which owns two prominent riverfront casino-hotels in Laughlin in Nevada’s southern tip, is building a $4 million modular amphitheater near its resorts that is scheduled to open in February for crowds varying from 9,300 to 21,000 guests.
State gaming regulators on Wednesday peppered Rock Gaming founder Dan Gilbert, who also owns the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, with questions about former UNLV standout Anthony Bennett, in addition to his ownership acquisition of Caesars Interactive Entertainment.
What’s a nice Irish Catholic like Tom Dugan doing writing and starring in “Wiesenthal,” a one-man drama about Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal?
One Nevada Credit Union on Wednesday posted net income for the first nine months of the year that topped $5 million as the Las Vegas-based credit union continues to set aside less for potential loan losses.
Paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled a new dinosaur discovered four years ago in southern Utah that proves giant tyrant dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex were around 10 million years earlier than previously believed.
The father of the 12-year-old boy who committed suicide after killing a teacher and wounding two classmates at Sparks Middle School said the handgun his son used was in a case but not locked where it was kept on a shelf above their kitchen refrigerator.
Let’s face it; people who participate in cooking competitions tend to be pretty intense, traveling many miles and endlessly refining recipes and technique to ensure that their chili — or barbecue, or burger, or sandwich, or pasta, or dessert, or bacon — is the best in the land.
Two teenagers were taken to University Medical Center after they were struck by a car Tuesday afternoon.
The city of Las Vegas won’t accept applications for new package liquor stores under the Fremont Street canopy so don’t bother asking, at least for awhile.
A 54-year-old man was indicted on charges he sent threatening letters to Mayor Carolyn Goodman and an administrative law judge, prosecutors said Wednesday.
“Maybe,” according to a recent survey. It depends on whom you ask.
The cities of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas will study sharing everything from animal control to traffic services under an agreement approved Wednesday by the Las Vegas City Council.
As late as Tuesday afternoon, on the official White House website, the very first subsection of a page devoted to the Affordable Care Act — under the heading, “Title I. Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans” — still read as follows: “If You Like the Insurance You Have, Keep It: Nothing in the proposal forces anyone to change the insurance they have. Period.”
