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 ...
The garage door opens at the Whitehead house in the wee hours in the morning. It’s pitch black at 4 a.m., with moon and the street lights brightening the southeast Henderson neighborhood. Melvin Whitehead III is determined to get a training session ...
Modeled after ESPN’s ESPY Awards, the annual black-tie-optional event honors top games, moments, teams and players from high schools in Southern Nevada. Awards include Male and Female Athlete of the Year, Scholar Athlete of the Year and Citizen of the Year.
For the teens she mentors, especially the athletes, Shana Stott is more than an educator — she’s a mom. If it weren’t for Stott passionately cheering from the bleachers, they’d have no one else at the game. “Every game or activity, a kid needs someone there to …
Art Plunkett is retiring next week and is moving to the Pacific Northwest. He is one of five finalists for the Unsung Hero award during tonight’s Sun Standout Awards at the South Point. The award is designated for someone who who works behind the scenes to …
The websites for Las Vegas Weekly and VEGAS INC have taken top honors in Editor & Publisher’s prestigious EPPY Awards. The sites were awarded EPPYs in the categories of
Last year, the Las Vegas Sun presented a series that followed the family of Arturo Martinez-Sanchez as they rebuilt their lives after the killings of Arturo's wife and daughter. Today, the Sun was awarded...
The websites of the Las Vegas Sun and Las Vegas Weekly were recognized Wednesday for excellence in online journalism by industry trade journal Editor & Publisher.
The Greenspun Media Group, which publishes the Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly, VEGAS INC and Las Vegas Magazine, was recognized Saturday as the top media organization in the state by the Nevada Press Association. At the organization’s annual awards presentation, the publications garnered 96 awards ...
The Sun’s yearlong project chronicling efforts to improve Clark County’s most-troubled public schools has been named the best story of the year by the Nevada Press Association. Judges said the project, “The Turnaround: Inside Clark County Schools,” “is what newspapers were meant to do.” They congratulated the paper for applying long-form storytelling to a digital format, and using videos and graphics, to offer a broad review “of complex matters that are at the core of the public interest.” “If more newspapers emulated the Sun, our republic would be well served,” judges concluded.
A national media organization has named LasVegasSun.com the best newspaper website in the country, marking the fourth year out of the past five that the Sun’s webpage has won national honors from its peers for its online presentation of news.
Karoun Demirjian, the Sun’s Capitol Hill correspondent, was named by her peers Wednesday night as the nation’s top regional correspondent covering Congress. The honor, the David Lynch Memorial Regional Reporting Award, is given by the Washington Press Club Foundation to a newspaper reporter whose work provides an understanding of the inner workings of Congress and explains how its actions affect a local community.
The Nevada Press Association on Saturday honored the Las Vegas Sun with 34 awards, including 14 first-place prizes involving investigative projects, feature writing, opinions and design, as well as for serving the community and upholding freedom of the press.