PGA Tour season resumes this week with many questions

The PGA Tour season began in September with the first 12 events, but a new calendar year brings a fresh start. The Sentry Tournament of Champions starts Thursday.

Hits and misses from Raiders’ offseason moves

The Raiders had plenty of draft picks and cap space last offseason to improve the roster, here is what they got right and wrong.

$1M grant to help improve water quality in Nevada

The Clean Water Act grant money from the Environmental Protection Agency will be used for 11 projects to reduce “nonpoint source pollution.”

Spaghetti Bowl lighting mostly restored after copper wire thefts

Work to regain full lighting in the Spaghetti Bowl area is closer to completion, but repairs in the Neon Gateway area are needed, according to a Nevada Department of Transportation spokesman.

Loyal VP Pence torn between Trump, Constitution

Vice President Mike Pence finds himself in the most precarious position of his tenure as he prepares to preside over Wednesday’s congressional tally of Electoral College votes, the last front in Trump’s futile attempts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

CES’ virtual show costing the city millions

This time of year, Las Vegas is usually bustling with hundreds of thousands of people flying in for CES. But not this year — and Southern Nevada is set to miss out on hundreds of millions of dollars because of it.

 
No Mega Millions winner; jackpot increases to $490M

Hundreds of people lined up Tuesday at The Lotto Store at Primm as they waited to buy Mega Millions and Powerball lottery tickets.

 
Pair arrested in kidnapping, forced servitude case

A woman kidnapped in Las Vegas in March was rescued on New Year’s Day in Nye County, where authorities say she was locked in a residence and forced to perform manual labor.

 
COVID growth outpaces vaccines, making for grim world outlook

January is going to be “a tough one,” Dr. Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, told The Associated Press. “This idea that seems to be ‘Ah, we’re all sick of it. We want to look at something else. Oh, this doesn’t apply to me’ …. That’s got to go away. It really is all hands on deck.”

 
Warnock wins; Senate control up to other tight race in Georgia

Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the Democrats’ reach.

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