Las Vegas freelance photographer and avid Golden Knights fan Shawn Hickey donned a suit of armor during the NHL Expansion Draft on Wednesday.
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“This city has a great hockey foundation and we’re really excited about hockey coming to Las Vegas,” Wayne Gretzky said. “This is tremendous organization. (Las Vegas Knights General Manager) George McPhee has done a tremendous job putting the team together. They are going to surprise a lot of people this year. As Nashville showed, if you finish in the top eight, anything can happen.”
A man is being held on charges of attempted murder and battery domestic violence after his cousin was brutally beaten, a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report said.
A man accused of stabbing two security guards Sunday morning on the Las Vegas Strip told police he “tore them up,” according to an arrest report.
The aquarium being designed by Raymer and King’s crew for the Animal Planet show “Tanked” is to be installed at the Sharks’ home arena, SAP Center, aptly known as The Shark Tank. The episode airs this fall on the Animal Planet series.
Accompanied by a blast of green and gold confetti and “Viva Las Vegas” by Elvis Presley, MGM Resorts International executives on Tuesday tossed gravel with gold-colored shovels to kick off construction of a $130 million conference center expansion at the MGM Grand, a key piece in a larger south Strip strategy.
In 2009, the penthouse unit at Turnberry Place 3801 was on the market for $16 million. One of the largest penthouse units in Las Vegas, the two-floor listing included five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a wet bar, pool, billiard room and scenic view of the Las Vegas Valley. Then the recession hit.
On Friday and Saturday, any fan making a gift-card donation to Petco or PetSmart of a minimum of $100 receives two tickets to the “Larger Than Life” shows at Axis.
It’s been 15 years since the last Emerging Artists and Talent in Music conference, but the event’s founder and producer, Lisa Tenner, can still see its impact on Vegas today.
The Golden State Warriors won the NBA Finals in five games over the Cavs. Players are now taking a well-deserved vacation.
MGM Grand will next week start expanding its conference center, adding the equivalent of five football fields, as its seeks to capture a larger portion of the city’s lucrative trade show industry.
Though we all put our pants on one leg at a time, a shopper inside the Stefano Ricci clothing store on the Strip may do so while surrounded by crocodile-skin chairs.
While temperatures are heating up in Las Vegas, people are cooling off at Minus5 ice lounge at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Pasquale Rotella is a force in the festival universe as the spin-master of Insomniac Events and founder of the EDC.
Here are your Wednesday afternoon headlines.