Over a two-month schedule, Utah center Luke Nevill stood out as the best player in the Mountain West Conference. During an intense three days in Las Vegas, he proved it again.
RENO — Gary Wilkinson scored 21 points and Jared Quayle and Tai Wesley both had double-doubles to help Utah State defeat UNR 72-62 to capture the Western Athletic Conference Tournament final Saturday night.
On Friday, guard Morgan Warburton’s basket with 2.7 seconds left sent Utah into the Mountain West Conference women’s tournament final.
Jake Hager always is confident in his fastball and curveball, but a changeup that he said “comes and goes” has given him something to work on this season.
Tough times are putting a serious strain on this city’s cultural community.
Las Vegas Art Museum’s shutdown last month rattled an arts scene that might have underestimated the impact of an imploding economy.
Once upon a Friday morning, there waited a blue sedan in the driveway of a tan house in a tan neighborhood in the northwest corner of Las Vegas.
Lawmakers asked for it, and they got an earful Saturday of testimony from members of the public who begged them not to cut education and health care as they struggle to balance the budget.
There was a time spine surgeons John Thalgott and Mark Kabins saw a lot of each other.
Former Clark County Commissioner Mary Kincaid-Chauncey spent more than two years in a California prison and a Las Vegas halfway house on political corruption charges.
Now living at home in North Las Vegas, she reflects on her incarceration: She made friends in prison, became empathetic toward people struggling with drugs, and ultimately became a mentor to many on the inside.
Public documents, formerly to be seen only by going to state capital offices 9-5 on weekdays, are increasingly available on government Web sites, news media found by conducting a nationwide cooperative survey.
YUCCA MOUNTAIN WORKER JOHN PFABE is about to get laid off, and he knows just who to blame: Sen. Harry Reid.
Gary Lewis prefers to think about it as “stepping forward” rather than betraying his famous father.
An armed man threatening suicide was shot and killed by Henderson police officers early Wednesday inside the emergency room of a hospital.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has thrown out a $2.2 million fine levied by the city of Las Vegas against a strip club that pleaded guilty to tax and extortion charges.
A Southern Nevada lawyer told the Nevada Supreme Court this month that pharmacists, at the least, had a duty to call physicians to voice their concerns before dispensing a narcotic painkiller to a woman who killed a man in a 2004 vehicle crash in Las Vegas.
Last year, Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto turned Nevada’s recall petition process upside down. The Democrats looked at the Nevada Constitution, along with nearly four decades of election law, and discovered what so many others before them had apparently overlooked.
Republicans offer sound reasons for opposing organized labor’s “card check” initiative. But that George W. McGovern agrees with them is one they should show the decency not to deploy.
I’ve written dozens of editorials for this newspaper warning that we all pay dearly when governments conduct the public’s business in private, and that restrictions on access to government records invariably protect wrongdoers and put law-abiding citizens at risk.
When the evil in the fog of the left’s blogosphere seeped into mainstream commentary, effectively discounting the message of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, it taught political Internet tricksters a lesson.
In speaking with my mother (who attended school during the 1980s and 1970s) about her scholastic experiences, I’ve come to realize that with a different generation comes a different drive and need for education. Physical labor is no longer America’s respectable means of income; we live in a schizophrenic country with technology being our new economic fixation. Even in the last decade, I can recall with amazement the innovations I’ve come to see in terms of technology and the convenience these innovations have brought. That point aside, the market is in high demand, and requires advanced education to supplement its constant growth. People go where they smell money, and this specific market definitely reeks of capital.
We are a self-absorbed lot. Nothing that has been or ever will be can possibly match the superlative moment in which we live right here and now.
I enjoy observing, admiring and encouraging artistic creativity in others. I enjoy cultivating creativity in myself.