las vegas history

On Main Street, beauty is a sisterhood| Students hit the road to recovery at Mission High | Gas is on the rise ... Gas Studios, that is | Into Vegas…

Party (in the hot tub) like it's 1989 | New eatery fuses diverse Latin flavors | Departing Main Street antique dealers reflect on a decade downtown Note:…

Editor’s note: One can only watch so many movies on planes and poolside. If you really want to sink into vacation mode, heed the siren song of an…

Eighty years ago, three developments gave birth to modern Las Vegas.

There’s a surprisingly practical reason to learn the city’s history: greater empathy.

The Sin City reputation of Las Vegas gave it a foundation on which to build a tourism brand, but it also, until recently, imposed a ceiling on how…

Las Vegas and Clark County have exploded in the last few decades. The growth has been sometimes painful and sometimes exhilarating.And for much of our…

The boulevard is about to get a little brighter. The Neon Museum is expanding for the first time since it opened five years ago, bringing 30 signs out of…

The Negro Motorist Green Book, as it was called, was a lifesaver for African-American travelers from 1936 to 1967.Jim Crow laws in the South outlined…

Let’s step back in time for a moment to the Las Vegas of 1905. Imagine a vast desert. Then imagine a tiny town with a population of about 200 adventurous…