During the season of preparation, a hunter makes plans for the hunt that might be months away. Some aspects might be done on his own, but if he is lucky, he will have friends who join him.
A couple of years ago, Guillaume Beland, a 10 handicap and manager of golf tournaments in Canada, played Oakmont Country Club, one of the most difficult courses in the world. It is also the site of next week’s U.S. Open.
Faith Lutheran pitcher Zack Trageton has turned into one of Southern Nevada’s top prospects the past two seasons and is expected to be one of the top locals taken in the Major League Baseball draft, which begins Thursday.
Benjamin Keeline, a 30-year-old professional poker player from Colorado, won the World Series of Poker’s “Colossus II” No-limit Hold ’em tournament Tuesday at the Rio Convention Center and earned the $1 million first prize.
With the MLB draft starting Thursday, four 51s players — Josh Smoker, Sean Gilmartin, Brandon Nimmo and Gavin Cecchini — and manager Wally Backman recounted their experiences as first-round selections.
Mum is still the word as the NHL’s executive committee’s decisions Tuesday regarding expansion for Las Vegas and Quebec City remain under wraps pending the Board of Governors meeting June 22 at Encore.
Nobody has actually died during the rigorous Mojave Death Race. Not yet anyway. But the captain of the winning team says he has experienced the occasional hallucination.
Though Cory Hendricks defeated Khalil Rountree to advance to the semi-finals in The Ultimate Fighter, he didn’t want him to be viewed as prey because he was injured.
The last two years have marked the lowest attendance in at least a decade at Hoover Dam, with just over 720,000 paid visitors in 2015 and fewer than 696,000 in 2014.
Gaming regulators on Wednesday gave initial approval to Las Vegas race and sports book pioneer Vic Salerno for a proposal that would allow bettors to make fantasy sports wagers using a platform similar to pari-mutuel wagering.
LeBron James had 32 points and 11 rebounds, Kyrie Irving added 30 points and Cleveland hammered the Golden State Warriors 120-90 in Game 3 on Wednesday night to pull within 2-1 in the NBA Finals.
MGM Resorts has partnered with First Bankcard, a division of First National Bank of Omaha, to launch its new M life Rewards MasterCard giving members access to special perks like free self-parking and priority hotel check-in.
Summer travel season is upon us, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to plan a great escape. In fact, the best travel deals are still available.
Like many states, Nevada has a trash problem. “But the issue here is in reverse,” said Erik Noack, waste management bureau chief for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.
Three candidates vying for a chance to unseat Republican incumbent Cresent Hardy jabbed at each other and debated hot topics such as health care and making college affordable one last time before Tuesday’s primary.
The fire started about 4:30 p.m. in the ground floor apartment at 1053 Lisbon Ave., near Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway.
The above-normal temperatures continue and records are being broken with the warmest start to June ever.
On Wednesday, 17 inmates at the Florence McClure’s Women’s Correctional Center celebrated their graduation from a substance abuse program called Sisters Together Achieving Recovery and Sobriety, or STARS.
Faith Lutheran’s Zack Trageton wasn’t supposed to be a pitcher in the Crusader baseball program.
On episode 8 of The Ultimate Fighter season 23, Cory Hendricks suffers an injury that hinders his progress on the show.
Edgar Burrola became the second Desert Pines football player in the class of 2017 to commit to Arizona when he announced his pledge to the school Wednesday.
Two California-based musicians are suing British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for $20 million over his hit song “Photograph,” which they claim bears a similar structure to one of their songs, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
The crash occurred at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday at an unspecified location on the training range, according to a new release from Nellis Air Force Base. There were no casualties.
A judge set bail at $100,000 Wednesday for a former Desert Pines High School science teacher accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student.
Nevada’s higher education board will gather in Reno on Thursday to consider a wide range of issues facing the state’s public colleges, making decisions that affect everything from class offerings and student tuition to presidential hires and school construction.
Las Vegas homicide detectives are investigating a dead body found in Laughlin early Wednesday morning.
A used school bus is still a bus, even if it was elaborately transformed into a 16th-century Spanish galleon that sailed Northern Nevada’s desert sands before being torched for scrap when left on private property.
The flight was headed for St. Louis when pilots believed something struck its tail, airport spokeswoman Christine Crews said. Of the 181 people on board, no one was injured.
