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What are the time-tested stoner treats? Why do we get the munchies? And other cannabis-related questions.

James Rensvold is executive vice president and private banking director at Nevada State Bank, which this year is celebrating its 60th anniversary.

Tucked into a suburban west Las Vegas strip mall is a small family-owned shop. Its shelves brim with treasured European treats, such as strong Turkish coffee, Bosnian cookies, German chocolates, hard-to-find Greek wines and breads baked in-house.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints revoked a policy earlier this month which prohibited children of parents in a same-sex relationship or marriage from …

On a lake in northwest Ontario, two cottages sit just across the water from one another. It’s there that Mark Stone’s journey to Las Vegas began.

Vegas enters the postseason 10-to-1 to win the Cup for the second straight year. Calculating the prices for every team—and adjusting for the house’s hold percentage—the Golden Knights’ probabilities fall to 15 percent to win the Western Conference and…

One minute it’s William Karlsson, Jonathan Marchessault and Reilly Smith, then Paul Stastny, Mark Stone and Max Pacioretty take the ice.

For the second consecutive year, the Vegas Golden Knights will take on the San Jose Sharks in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Here are a few Sharks focal points as the Knights look to continue their dominance over their rivals.

Even a jock can be a hairstylist. During his junior year in high school, sports fanatic Michael Boychuck saw the movie “Shampoo,” and it changed his life. The three-sport athlete “just went for it and started my hair journey,” he said.

With professional sports franchises and venues transforming Las Vegas, a new minor league ballpark in Summerlin is about to provide an economic jolt for the master-planned community. On about 70 days this spring and summer, thousands of people will vi…