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Las Vegas dispensaries are no stranger to pot products named for notables

Country music legend Willie Nelson speaks to fans during an event celebrating the collaboration between Willie's Reserve and Redwood Cultivation at Exile on Main Street in downtown Las Vegas, Tuesday Jan. 31, 2017.

Talk show host Chelsea Handler announced last month that she was creating her own variety of marijuana for sale at dispensaries in her home state of California, saying pot is the only thing ...

Entrepreneur: 'The same things that make what I am doing scary are the things that make it special'

Natalia Harris owns Glam Parlor, which opened this year in Las Vegas.

Natalia Harris spent 12 years in marketing for the nightlife industry — event planning, event production, artist relations and more. So she knows what people who want to be seen want to look like.

Average price of US gas remains steady at $2.59 a gallon

The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline remained steady ...

Historic Nevada divorce house may be moved for redevelopment

This Thursday, March 8, 2018 photo shows the Nystrsom Guest House pictured in downtown Reno, Nev. The home is one of two historic homes a developer wants to relocate for a revitalization project. Built in 1875, it was one of the first boarding houses catering to divorce-seekers who helped make Reno the ''Divorce Capital of the World'' during the 1930s because of its lax residency laws.

Two historic houses that lie in the path of its revitalization project in downtown Reno, including one that played a key role in the city's emergence ...

Need an office? For $30 you can rent space for the day in downtown Henderson

A conference room inside Co-Operate on Water Street in downtown Henderson, which provides office space and resources for small businesses starting up, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018.

The prices start at $30 a day for a drop in, $200 for a monthly membership, $300 for a monthly membership with an assigned space. The space is basic — a cubicle or rectangle table with two chairs, for instance. But for up-and-comers it adds credibility to their quest at ...

Brothel owner Hof still working to get license reinstated at Love Ranch

A sign gives direction to Dennis Hof's Love Ranch brothel in Crystal, Dec. 20, 2017.

The letter states that on March 1 a member of the county’s compliance department went to the brothel to conduct an inspection but was denied entrance by Hof’s executive assistant, which is a violation of county code and ...

Pac-12 women's basketball tournament headed to Las Vegas in 2019

After a six-year run in Seattle, the Pac-12 women's basketball tournament is moving to Las Vegas in 2019. Due to the pending $600 million renovations at KeyArena, Commissioner Larry Scott said ...

Bricklayers think they're safe from robots. But are they?

Teams compete in the Bricklayer 500 championship outside the Las Vegas Convention Center, Jan. 24, 2018. In contrast with other trade shows, displays of technology still play second fiddle to the actual race.

Here at this Las Vegas race, humans are holding off the future with trowel and muscle. But that may not last. Bricklayers are becoming increasingly hard to find nationwide. Despite rising wages, there’s a shortage of workers. Nearly two-thirds of bricklaying contractors ...

Woman wins $500,000 in promotion at Eastside Cannery

A New York woman, left, won $500,000 in March 2018 in a promotional game at the Eastside Cannery.

A New York woman won the $500,000 top prize last week in the Eastside Cannery’s monthlong Rainbow to Riches promotion. Players qualify for the game based on their slot play, and participants are ...

Las Vegas Sands to sell Pennsylvania casino for $1.3 billion

Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem is shown Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, in Bethlehem, Pa.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. is selling its Pennsylvania casino to an American Indian tribe from Alabama for $1.3 billion, the company ...

Bettor sues harness-racing trainer for loss linked to doping

In this Nov. 20, 2013, file photo, letters spell out Meadowlands over top the new grandstand at the race track in East Rutherford, N.J.

An aggrieved harness-racing bettor has gone to court to recoup more than $31,000 in winnings he said he was cheated out of when a doped horse won a race in New Jersey two years ago. Leading figures in harness racing said they had never before heard of ...

Shrinking housing supply is 'catching up to' Las Vegas

This 2016 photo shows a Las Vegas home for sale.

Home sales in the Las Vegas area slowed in February because of the shrinking supply of properties, according to an industry report. The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reports ...

County dumps proposal to let hair salons serve beer and wine

County dumps proposal to let hair salons serve beer and wine

Clark County commissioners today ditched a proposed ordinance to let owners of salons and barbershops sell alcohol to patrons, citing a lack of clarity and ...

Rep. Dina Titus urges preservation of internet gambling

A U.S. congresswoman whose Nevada district includes the Las Vegas Strip asked the federal government Tuesday to keep internet gambling legal. Democratic Rep. Dina Titus wrote to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, urging ...

Steve Hill lauded for helping diversify Nevada's economy

Steve Hill, president and chief operating officer of the LVCVA and chairman of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority, addresses the crowd after receiving the Caesars Community Hero Award at the Rio, Monday, March 5, 2018.

After helping reward the state financially by luring several major companies to begin business operations in Nevada, one of the key players behind the dealings received an award of his own ...

Developer brings a movie and dining best-of to southwest Las Vegas

The Bend is a dining, entertainment and shopping plaza located in Southwest Las Vegas on Sunset Road just immediately north of IKEA.

When developer J Dapper builds a dining and retail plaza, he tends to personalize it. He’s a huge architecture buff — has a library of books on the subject — so he ...

Law aims to stop discrimination against job applicants with criminal history

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signs an executive order aimed at giving people with criminal records a "fair chance" to land state government jobs, at the state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. The Republican governor's action will remove the box on state job application forms that asks job seekers whether they have criminal records.

During the six months Tyrone Woods spent looking for a job, he sent emails, filled out applications and hoped for the best. His résumé highlighted two steady jobs since 2010­—one for four years in Las Vegas and the other for two years when he briefly moved to Texas. However, in the callbacks, his past felony convictions were discussed.

People on the Move: March 4-10, 2018

In the Notes: Samantha Virdin-Smetana, Henderson Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas, Paola Gonzalez, Dan Solow, Desert Radiology and more ...

The List: Private schools, March 4, 2018

Find out about private schools. This week, we rank them by enrollment as of Jan. 1.

Sports betting's big wager: Will younger bettors ante up?

In this Aug. 20, 2015, file photo, Therese Duenas counts money as she takes bets in the sports book at the South Point in Las Vegas.

As the push to legalize sports gambling in the U.S. nears a crucial Supreme Court decision, states hoping to reap a financial windfall could face another hurdle: Attracting younger players used to online fantasy sports ...