When downtown Las Vegas’ Life Cube Project comes to a fiery end Friday, several streets around the 24-foot art display developed by Scott Cohen at Ninth and Fremont streets will be closed to vehicle traffic.
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U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford got a from-the-ground perspective of the working man and woman in Las Vegas on Friday — by working as a UPS deliveryman.
The Henderson City Council approved a series of big-ticket contracts Tuesday to build two more parks in the city.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday introduced an ordinance that would eventually put a system of uniform county-owned and maintained newsracks on the Strip.
Las Vegas is full of mysteries, even if you’ve lived here your entire life. That said, we want to solve them, so we asked what questions about Las Vegas you’ve always wanted answered. We’ll tackle them once a week in Knowing Vegas.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a settlement to end a nearly three-year-long stretch of litigation with the Southern Nevada Health District.
The former president of the Hells Angels motorcycle club’s local chapter was sentenced on Tuesday to two to five years in prison for assaulting rival gang members at a downtown wedding chapel in 2008.
A plaid-clad robber went into a convenience store near U.S. Highway 95 and Eastern Avenue and pointed a gun at the cashier, Las Vegas police said. The man demanded cash and cigarettes, then fled on foot.
It took them two days of retreats, but the Las Vegas City Council decided its top three priorities are economic diversification, public safety and law enforcement, and transportation.
Burlesque performers from the 1950s to the present are set to be on hand for “Putting the Sin in Sin City: 60 Years of Burlesque in Las Vegas” at 7 p.m. March 20 at the Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road.
The message from the audience was clear during Monday’s Congressional Ad-Hoc Hearing on Immigration in North Las Vegas: Stop breaking families apart. The hearing was organized by Rep. Steve Horsford, D-Nev., Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, D-Texas, and was held at North Las Vegas City Hall.
A man was killed after being hit by a car on the right shoulder of U.S. Highway 95 near the Rainbow/Summerlin Parkway exit Monday night.
Gina Moreno Wilson shares the story of her family’s struggle with her father’s illness in “Donald’s Story: One Family’s Journey Through the Tangled Darkness of Alzheimer’s: How to Cope and Survive as Your Loved One Slips Away.”
Literary highlights this week include author appearances by Ellen Poulsen, Jenni Pulos, Brandon Mull, Chad Morris, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus.
