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The song鈥檚 opening line tells the story of Las Vegas 鈥 then and today. 鈥淏right light city, gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire.鈥 鈥淚t showed you there was more to Las Vegas than mobsters and the Rat Pack. That message had value,鈥 Las Vegas historian Michael Greene says of the titular tune from the 1964 film 鈥淰iva Las Vegas.鈥

Modern downtown Las Vegas鈥 origin can be traced back to 119 years ago Wednesday, when a land auction made history by making the desert settlement into a town.

All eyes will be on Nevada in November as a swing state likely to determine who will be the next president. After all, the Silver State has a long-standing reputation for picking the candidate who will head to the White House.

All eyes will be on Nevada in November as a swing state likely to determine who will be the next president. After all, the Silver State has a long-standing reputation for picking the candidate who will head to the White House.

Las Vegas is no stranger to worker walkouts. Pickets have appeared in front of our hotel casinos throughout recent gaming history. Workers at Virgin Las Vegas told News 3 they had hoped it wouldn't come to this, but the Culinary Union is not afraid to stand up for better pay and benefits.
A video of a passenger bagging the "best seat ever" on the final flight of the day has gone viral on TikTok. The clip was shared by @nabil.o33 and has had 3.3 million views since it was posted on April 15. A message overlaid on the video says: "POV [point of view]: When you're flying standby on the last flight of the day, the flight is completely full, but you were given the option to sit in the back of the plane with the cabin crew."
The Senate passed a bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration鈥檚 authority over the country鈥檚 vast aviation system, which comes as the agency is facing pressure to ramp up its safety oversight and procedures after a series of close calls on runways, high-profile incidents involving Boeing jets and a shortage of air traffic controllers.

A frantic push for pilots to take early retirement during the pandemic, the federal requirements for pilot training and a hard cutoff on commercial flying past a certain age are just a few of the factors aviation experts in Las Vegas say have led to a nationwide pilot shortage.

It鈥檚 a question that puzzles long-time residents and new transplants alike: What do you mean, I don鈥檛 live in Las Vegas? That isn鈥檛 an unreasonable question. After all, Las Vegas is what鈥檚 listed on mail, Amazon packages, drivers鈥 licenses and leases for most Clark County residents who don鈥檛 live in North Las Vegas or Henderson.

More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach name-checked in the Beach Boys鈥 iconic 鈥淪urfin鈥 U.S.A.鈥 Spent fuel rods from the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant were supposed to be sent to a long-planned federal repository in Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach name-checked in the Beach Boys鈥 iconic 鈥淪urfin鈥 U.S.A.鈥 Spent fuel rods from the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant were supposed to be sent to a long-planned federal repository in Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Nevada鈥檚 US Senator Key Pittman died a few days before the November 1940 reelection that he was favored to win in a landslide. But his body was preserved in a bathtub full of ice so his seat could remain Democratic. Or so the story goes.