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The 50th-annual World Series of Poker began in late May at the Rio with the set of 89 championship tournaments running through mid-July. The Main Event begins on July 3 and lasts 10 days, with the final table …

Tanager—named for the classic Curtiss Model 54 aircraft—is the latest addition to Downtown Summerlin by the Howard Hughes Corporation, which welcomed the first residents to the master planned community in 1991. It’s the first Summerlin apartment compl…

Can you recall what you ate for your most recent meal? Not just the dish, but how consuming it affected your senses?

Thomas Olsen stepped off the Cashman Field pitch after an early-season game and walked to a crowd of more than 30 cheering friends and family who had come to watch him play. That’s when the Las Vegas Lights’ 24-year-old goalie realized the magnitude o…

Temperatures have risen in almost every city in the United States since 1970, but no metropolitan area is heating up as quickly as Las Vegas.

One big trend is the vanishing edge, where water flows over an edge to give the appearance of a body of water with no boundary. It’s called a negative edge pool.

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MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in April that Las Vegas will be one of the cities considered, but so are Charlotte, Detroit and Phoenix. Once Renaissance and the city agree to a plan for a stadium, they will submit a bid …

The sale of one of Las Vegas’ largest marijuana dispensary and cultivation operations has been finalized. Chicago-based Green Thumb Industries announced …

A trip to Fremont Street these days will offer views of the first ground-up casino to be built Downtown in decades.