In The News: Department of History
La Concha Motel, Huntridge Theater and Mormon Fort are among three Southern Nevada locations that Preserve Nevada has designated as the state’s “most endangered historic places.” The statewide historic preservation organization this week released its annual list of 12 “Silver State treasures” at greatest risk of destruction during Historic Preservation Month in May.
Preserve Nevada this week released its 2025 list of the state’s most endangered sites, again listing Reno’s Lear Theater among the threatened entities. This year’s list increased to 12, up from 11 in past years, and it includes locations and concepts across Nevada preservation experts say should be protected.
51ԹϺ and Preserve Nevada updated their ongoing list of the state’s most endangered historic places. New additions include La Concha, a vintage motel that’s now the lobby of the Neon Museum, but may not survive a location change, the Commercial Hotel in Elko, and Florence Mine in Goldfield. The work and employment of historians are also at risk, due to funding cuts at national parks and monuments.
The poker game was fixed — that’s the story anyway. An out-of-work miner got “caught gambling crooked,” so the dealer pulled a pistol and emptied six bullets into the man, so says the 1915 coroner’s report. Three of those bullets shot clear through the Pioneer Saloon’s prefabricated walls, marring the pressed tin near the front door. The lore and mythos of the 112-year-old Pioneer Saloon is as alive today as it was the day those bullets penetrated its walls. Steeped in American nostalgia, Nevada saloons are crucial artifacts of early Nevada history — as raucous as the men and women who packed them, as rich in community as their towns’ earth was in silver, and as roughshod and brutal as the boom-and-bust mining camps where they were built.
Melania Trump appeared to be all business to join President Trump for Monday’s signing of the Take It Down Act.
Storing more than a century of American IDs, the program’s database is a go-to resource for cultural historians — and a source of inspiration for parents-to-be.
The Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) recently led a delegation to Las Vegas, Nevada, to gain a firsthand look at the city’s role within the U.S.-South Korea relationship and its influential network of Korean American community and business leaders. Across a range of sectors, from advanced manufacturing and clean technologies to creative industries and entertainment, the city of Las Vegas and southern Nevada more broadly offer great business incentives for Korean companies looking to expand in the United States.
A surprising number of alternative facts about the world’s gambling capital continue to resonate across pop culture, with little relevance to reality. The Hoover Dam holds one of the biggest.
In the decade-and-a-half following the 2008 economic collapse, the north end of the Strip — loosely defined as the 1.3-mile section between Encore and The Strat — has benefited from billions of dollars of capital investment, giving casino operators and other stakeholders a renewed sense of purpose. But the corridor remains a work in progress, and the question once again being asked is: Can the North Strip finally deliver on its unrealized potential?
In the decade-and-a-half following the 2008 economic collapse, the north end of the Strip — loosely defined as the 1.3-mile section between Encore and The Strat — has benefited from billions of dollars of capital investment, giving casino operators and other stakeholders a renewed sense of purpose. But the corridor remains a work in progress, and the question once again being asked is: Can the North Strip finally deliver on its unrealized potential?
The traffic light turns green on a crowded jag of downtown Manhattan. Polished women shake their choppy, chopped hair in the wind, scanning news of soaring stocks, then crashing stocks, then a wild party their friends tried to crash. Stores show drop-waist dresses and long beaded cardigans in one window, piles of crisp white shirts and boater shoes in another.
As if Elon Musk didn’t already have enough advantages, between his billions and his leverage over President Donald Trump, he appears to have another ace up his sleeve: the US Marshals Service.