If the plan to build a stadium, retail complex and thousands of units of on-campus housing and hotel rooms at UNLV ever happens, it would transform the university. The plan, unveiled Tuesday by developers who back the idea, would see more than a third of the campus’ 332 acres turned into an integrated village.
Comic David Frye, whose impressions of Presidents Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and other prominent political figures vaulted him to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, has died in Las Vegas at the age of 77.
On Saturday, Las Vegans with ties to Egypt took to the streets to protest Hosni Mubarak’s reign with a rally in front of the downtown Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse.
It has never received the same amount of public attention as New Year’s Eve or Super Bowl Sunday, but Chinese New Year has become one of the most important annual periods for resorts in Las Vegas.
A man had to shoot the family pit bull Friday evening after it began attacking a 55-year-old woman in their east valley home.
Earlier this month, roughly 2,000 firefighters from Clark County and area municipalities took their annual regional drill to the vacant Fontainebleau’s 32nd floor. The exercises concluded Tuesday.
Five separate traffic accidents involving up to 12 vehicles forced authorities to briefly close the northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 95 north of Lake Mead Boulevard.
Takara Davis, 13, cited for jaywalking in an accident that left her hospitalized and in an induced coma, said she is recovering and thankful for the support she has received from all over the United States and from countries as far away as England, India and Australia.
The new state museum at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve has been in limbo for several years. There was enough money to finish the $50 million building, expected to become the state’s flagship museum. But if Gov. Brian Sandoval has his way, it won’t happen this year. Or even next year.
