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Las Vegas Philharmonic/FacebookSome people still raise their eyebrows when you tell them Las Vegas has a Philharmonic orchestra. Imagine how much higher those eyebrows go when you add: it’s now 25 years old. -
The Neon Museum/FacebookDon’t look now, but there’s another festival coming to downtown Las Vegas this fall. But don’t worry about road closures or towering stages.
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Nevada Public Radio/Don Hamrick, Chairman, Board of Directors, KNPR, announces the retirement of Mark Vogelzang as CEO, effective October 6, 2023, and the appointment of Favian Perez to Interim CEO. Perez, who has been with Nevada Public Radio for ten years, assumes this new responsibility after serving as the organization’s chief operating officer since 2022.
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Emilio Morenatti/APArtificial intelligence isn’t something that we hope to witness one day, it’s already here.
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The long-awaited opening of the Sphere will take place Friday evening. -
Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.
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Democrats are slamming far-right Republicans who they say are putting the country at risk with a shut down if they don’t get their way.
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This week, Culinary Union workers voted to authorize a strike. The bartenders union did the same. The teacher’s union contract dispute with the school district is now in the hands of an arbitrator.
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LGBTQ rights in Nevada have come a long way since the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. And so have that community’s biggest institutions.
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Tens of thousands of Las Vegas hospitality workers fighting for new union contracts voted Tuesday to authorize a strike that could impact more than three dozen casinos and hotels, the city’s economic backbone.
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Barry Manilow has just overtaken The King himself, Elvis Presley, for the most shows at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino.
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Fall officially started last week, and cooler temperatures are finally on the way to Southern Nevada. But that comes after a summer of record heat and historic flooding. Has all of that changed the way we garden?
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We’re thrilled to share that Desert Companion has won 10 awards in the Nevada Press Association's 2023 Better Newspaper Contest, announced the week of September 18 through 22.
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From the killing of a bicyclist to pedestrian and child deaths, it’s been a deadly year on our roads. The number of traffic fatalities this year is almost the same as a year ago, and last year was one of the deadliest on record.
