Months of celebration around the 75th anniversary of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s Archive Collection — which boasts millions of iconic images of early Las Vegas — will soon come to a close at the Fremont Street Experience, where the public can view photos from the collection as they are exhibited ...
Harry Reid never felt the need to be loud or brash. The former U.S. Senate majority leader who died Tuesday at age 82 instead often took a soft-spoken approach to politics that resulted in lasting, historic results ...
Kelli Luchs, who came to Las Vegas from Michigan about 15 years ago to attend graduate school at UNLV, is charged with caring for the most extensive collections of historical Las Vegas photos in existence, which includes over 7 million photos taken over the years by ...
Tens of millions of years ago, dinosaurs, including a small, zippy plant-eater that resembled a massive scaly green chicken, roamed the area that is now Southern Nevada. It was Nevadadromeus schmitti, the first …
New street signs in Paradise Palms neighborhood of Las Vegas show hyperlocal pride and a commitment to history that its residents know can be hit and miss in this ever-reinventing city.
While Robert Stoldal was a senior at Las Vegas High School in 1959, he recalls the trips he and his friends endeavored up and down Fremont Street, then a lively section of town.
The horn of a 1906 Edison standard phonograph is pointed toward the glass of a display case in a side gallery of the Clark County Museum. Surrounded by multicolored cylinder records, the phonograph is just one part of the museum’s “Obsolete Objects” exhibit ...
Tempest Storm, one of the most celebrated strippers of midcentury burlesque, who continued plying her craft until she was in her 80s — not because she had to, but because she could — died on Tuesday at her home in Las Vegas. She was 93.
The question of when Nevada entered the Union isn’t up for debate: Oct. 31, 1864. The question of when to celebrate the entrance isn’t so simple. Nevada Day was ...
When former Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons called a 2008 news conference to try to explain why he had made hundreds of texts, many late at night, from a state-issued cellphone to a woman who was not his wife, Sun Capitol Bureau Chief Cy Ryan cut right to the chase ...
For a mere $8 (or $7 apiece for groups), ticketed Mob Museum guests can listen to Oscar Goodman share his experiences representing infamous figures such as Tony “The Ant” Spilotro and “Mob accountant” Meyer Lansky.