In The News: Honors College

Las Vegas Review Journal

Nearly 25 years after it first opened, the resort-casino on the corner of Paradise Road and Harmon Avenue is celebrating its final days as the Hard Rock Hotel.

Travel Weekly

“What happens here, only happens here” is the “new” slogan, unveiled in a 60-second commercial on CBS’s Grammy Awards telecast on Sunday night. The ad features Shania Twain, Christina Aguilera, Aerosmith and others with a glittering selection of Vegas landmarks and spectacles.

CDC Gaming Reports Inc.

If the 2020 presidential election is going to have a ‘Jim Murren moment’, as the gaming industry saw nearly four years ago, it won’t be from Jim Murren.

Times Standard

The Oakland Raiders’ yearlong march into oblivion will end Sunday at the aging Coliseum.

KSNV-TV: News 3

It will be the Democrat's ninth of their presidential primary cycle, coming on February 19.

KNPR News

It was 150 years ago that construction began on the Sutro Tunnel. It had quite an impact … and didn’t amount to much. If that sounds contradictory, well, bear with us.

KSNV-TV: News 3

If you’re expecting the floodgates to open on caucus endorsements by our Democratic D.C. delegation, don’t.

KNPR News

Imagine traveling down the Colorado River from Wyoming all the way down to where the Colorado and Virgin Rivers meet. Now imagine doing it 150 years ago, without today’s transportation, technology, and settlements. That’s what John Wesley Powell and his geographic expedition did.

KGET.com

During the 1970s, the MGM Hotel was the grandest of them all, but there was a popular novel that would change the way people think of our growing city. However, it’s the end of the King’s reign that many people will never forget.

Las Vegas Sun

Faced with the realities of change, many state and local governments are taking action by passing legislation to incentivize the use of renewable energy.

Leafly

Two Ukrainian associates of Rudy Giuliani were arrested on Wednesday night and charged with funneling foreign money into US elections, an illegal activity. The headlines have been dominated by the pair’s alleged donations to a pro-Trump super PAC last year, but there’s another charge hidden in the indictment that has left some in the cannabis industry—and many in the state of Nevada—scratching their heads.

Associated Press

After mass shootings in Ohio and Texas this summer, gun control burst back on the scene as a major political issue for Democrats. Now it risks taking a back seat as impeachment fever overtakes Washington.