Clark County’s longest-serving sheriff was the top man when the city and county law enforcement agencies merged into the Metropolitan Police Department.
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Nevada’s most powerful labor leader in the 1970s was found dead in the desert near Mount Potosi after refusing to pay for two car bombs he ordered that never blew.
Clark County’s unassuming chief health officer focused only on the public’s needs, not the political infighting, in his quest to improve the quality of life on all levels.
A public servant who was on the City Commission for two decades found his true reward was serving both mankind and the Mormon Church.
Some of Nevada’s politicians saw the obsessive recluse as a cure for Las Vegas’ woes in the gaming industry but his unusual behavior was almost as tainting as the shadow cast by the mob.
As a young newspaper advertising executive, he took a gamble on a place called Las Vegas and a man named Don Reynolds, and helped that man build a media empire.
A young bookmaker who decided to come to Nevada where his profession was legal is credited with making sports betting what it is today.
The man who brought fantasy and families to the Strip with Caesars Palace and Circus Circus was never able to fulfill his one huge dream — building the Grandissimo.
Despite a shaky beginning in the financial world, a former Del Webb Corp. employee became one of the more successful gambling executives in Nevada.
A fighter pilot-turned wing commander, whose tenure at Nellis Air Force Base was somewhat brief, had a huge impact on the base’s future as an elite training facility.
The man who brought McCarran International Airport into the modern age began his political career as a Boulder City council member and went on from there to the county and then the federal levels.
Rock ‘n’ roll’s monarch traded in his black leather jacket for a white spangled jumpsuit and ascended to the throne via the viva Las Vegas rocket, saving both himself and the ‘Entertainment Capital of the World.’
A Review-Journal writer found many of his subjects in the saloons and on the streets of town — many were unbelievable, but all were real.
At a time when no one thought much of ‘Tumbleweed Tech,’ an educator found a niche the young university could fill more readily than any facility in the nation — hotel administration.
A war hero who became a rough-and-tumble politician has not retired into anonymity; he keeps in the thick of things with his newspaper column
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The Beach Boys rank among the most popular groups of the rock era, with more than 30 singles in the Top 40 and worldwide sales of more than 100 million.
Immigration to Nevada was up in 2023, with the Silver State seeing its highest percentage of moves from overseas in years, according to new data.
Nevada’s governor signed a bill that adds steps needed to take over a dead person’s estate.
Las Vegas officials haven’t been told why the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated the city as a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants.
