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Online travel booker Travelocity.com this week grouped Las Vegas with Nashville, Tennessee, and Houston as sites American travelers like for July Fourth pyrotechnics, based on a national survey.

Jason Zucker, Las Vegas’ only NHL player, is thrilled about his hometown getting a team in the league. And he said people in the hockey world will be surprised how savvy Las Vegas fans are.

This week’s list of options for budget-minded music fans includes Alan Six at the Dive and the Bunkhouse Saloon’s new bimonthly party, Rock N Rattlecan.

We have gone over the fact that American Pharoah, despite winning the Triple Crown last year, has not had much of a lasting effect. I have equated it to if Bryce Harper retired after this season. Thanks and see you later.

Corey Lewandowski is moving from working on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to talking about it.

I generally look at our ethnic restaurants — especially those representing less-familiar cuisines — as celebrating the diversity of Southern Nevada. But Las Americas does a pretty good job of celebrating diversity all on its own.

Bill Torrey, long known as “The Architect” in the NHL, said the person hired to run the Las Vegas franchise will have a big edge over what he had to work with because of today’s rules.

The Southern Nevada economy will strengthen the rest of the year and into 2017 and even surpass the national economy, which continues to be a concern and poses a risk, according to a report released Thursday by a UNLV economics professor.

A masked man was shot dead Thursday after entering a movie theater in southwestern Germany with what appeared to be a rifle and taking several hostages, authorities said. No one else was hurt.

An oil spill of 700 barrels of crude from a pipeline in Ventura County, California, had emergency crews scrambling Thursday to keep the oil from reaching the nearby coast, a state official said.

“We used to play old men; now we are old men. We don’t have to play it anymore; we just have to speak,” says 69-year-old Cheech Marin, who performs with comedy partner Tommy Chong on Friday at Treasure Island.

Here are five drinks to enjoy before June draws to a close.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the practice of considering race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman’s challenge to a University of Texas affirmative action program.

Spanish phenom Adrian Mateos is first in chips with 17 players remaining in the $1,500 “Summer Solstice” No-limit Hold ’em event. Mateos won the 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event at age 19, and in May 2015 he binked the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final in Monte Carlo for $1.2 million.

An early morning condominium fire in the eastern valley has displaced 10 people and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage

Our arts picks this week include Jane Monheit’s salute to Ella Fitzgerald, and the Springs Preserve’s new live animal show, “Desert Survivor!”

From costumes to instruments, a selection of music memorabilia will go under the hammer in Beverly Hills this week, including items belonging to late singers Whitney Houston and Prince.

Despite alleged legal threats from the UFC’s lawyers, FloCombat.com doubled down on its reporting Wednesday and posted a story that the deal was completed and expected to be announced in early July.

Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson Jr was found not guilty on Thursday of second-degree depraved heart murder in the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, the most serious criminal charge he faced.

J.R. Pony Parties in the northwest valley received notification three years ago from the Clark County Commission and the Southern Nevada Health District that it must have a larger septic tank installed to continue being open to the public. It received an extension, but the deadline is nearing.

Spread the Word Nevada is trying to collect enough books so students from at-risk elementary schools will have a new one every month. Last year, it collected more than 425,000 books to give to schools across Clark County. Currently, it has about 375,000 books stored and ready for the upcoming school year.

President Barack Obama sought to reassure millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally that he has no plans to deport them.

The Speakeasy Swingers have close to three centuries of experience among them, and they have no intention of stopping now. They love the music they play, and they believe the audience for it continues to grow.

It was March 2010 when Henderson resident Diana Edelman was hit with what she calls a “quarter-life crisis.” It took Edelman a few months of traveling, soul-searching and working another part-time job for her to completely change her career focus and devote her time to freelancing and her blog. In September 2011, she went to Thailand and volunteered at Elephant Nature Park, where she said she learned about the horrors in the elephant entertainment industry.

The name is cool and gives patrons a hint as to what to expect when they walk through the doors of Kaffe Live. Part artisan sandwich shop and part live entertainment hub, the business recently opened at 5135 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 145.