- Nevada gets green light on plan to spend $416 million to expand internet access
- Thursday, April 25, 2024
- The federal government has approved Nevada’s initial plan for $416.6 million in grant money to expand access to high-speed internet access. The plan details how the state wants to spend the money to ...
- Man missing after reportedly trying to ride wooden raft down Colorado River
- Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- A search was underway today at Grand Canyon National Park for a man believed to have tried to travel down the Colorado River on a wooden raft, according to the National Park Service.
- Metro: Impairment suspected in fatal crash on Boulder Highway
- Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Two pedestrians waiting for a city bus on Boulder Highway in east Las Vegas were killed Wednesday evening when they were struck by a car whose driver is suspected ...
- Stolen ambulance from Las Vegas Fire & Rescue involved in crash
- Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- A Las Vegas Fire & Rescue ambulance that was involved in a two-vehicle collision this morning in North Las Vegas was originally stolen in downtown Las Vegas ...
- Sparks fly as Sen. Rosen grills USPS chief on Reno mail plans
- Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen lambasted Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service in a Senate committee hearing over what Nevada’s junior senator called their misguided ...
- Nomination window open for Sun Standout Awards
- Monday, April 15, 2024
- This is the final week to nominate local student-athletes for the Sun’s annual high school sports awards show. It’s our seventh year hosting the Sun Standout Awards ...
- Police: Officers in standoff with wanted person west of Las Vegas Strip
- Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Officers were engaged in a standoff with a wanted person just west of the Las Vegas Strip, according to Metro Police. The person was barricaded in the ...
- Las Vegas police: Woman hit by car, killed while trying to move disabled vehicle
- Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- A woman trying to move a disabled car was hit and killed by a vehicle driven by a man subsequently arrested on DUI-related counts, according to Metro Police. The incident was reported about ...
- Both drivers killed in wrong-way head-on crash in Las Vegas
- Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Both drivers were killed in a head-on collision Sunday morning, according to a Nevada State Police news release.
- Victims, attacker identified in shooting at Las Vegas law office
- Monday, April 8, 2024
- A shooting Monday inside a law office in the affluent Summerlin neighborhood of Las Vegas left three people dead, including the shooter, police said. Clark County ...
Blog Entries
- Newseum chronicles Elvis' meteoric rise
- Tuesday, April 6, 2010
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/05/AR2010040504469.html
- People in the news quiz
- Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009
- Can you name these eight people who were in the Las Vegas Sun this week?
- Fake field goal sets up Green Valley win
- Friday, Aug. 28, 2009
- Green Valley beat Centennial 10-7 tonight.
- ESPN 1100 hosts Radiothon to benefit cancer wellness center
- Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Longtime boxing analyst Al Bernstein and ESPN Radio 1100, supported by a score of UFC personalities, will again be hosting “The Longest Radio Show Ever” next weekend to benefit The Caring Place — a non-profit facility that provides free services to support the mind, body and spirit of individuals touched by cancer.
- 51s drop another
- Sunday, May 3, 2009
The slide continued for the 51s on Sunday. Despite taking a two-run lead in the fourth inning, Las Vegas gave up four runs in the seventh to suffer their third straight setback, a 4-2 defeat to the Salt Lake Bees at Cashman Field.
- UNLV's golf team wins Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship
- Sunday, March 15, 2009
The UNLV men's golf team erased a 12-shot deficit in the final round of the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship on Sunday and held off Oklahoma State by a single stroke to win its own tourney for the second straight year with a 54-hole total of 9-under par 855.
- Former Sen. Heck to run for governor
- Friday, March 13, 2009
- Sun columnist Jon Ralston is reporting that former state Sen. Joe Heck will enter the race for governor.
- NHL awards ceremony coming to the Palms
- Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009
- http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3857941
- Hot-handed Allen, Malott reach PBA TOC finals
- Friday, Jan. 23, 2009
Wes Malott kept his hot streak going Friday, jumping into the lead of the Professional Bowlers Association’s H&R Block Tournament of Champions at Red Rock Lanes in the afternoon.
But by the end of the night, the five-time PBA Tour titlist — fresh off his Bayer Earl Anthony Medford Classic title last weekend in Medford, Ore. — needed every ounce of that luck to survive and advance into Sunday’s ESPN televised (9:30 a.m. PT) stepladder finals.
- Page takes lead in PBA event with perfect game
- Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009
The reigning Professional Bowlers Association’s Rookie of the Year could have just as easily stayed fixated in the moment Thursday night at Red Rock Lanes.
Instead, Rhino Page finished his star gazing in warm ups and proceeded to roll a perfect game during the opening round of match play in the H&R Block Tournament of Champions.