Pitt Meadows council wants a casino and convention centre in the city, perhaps built on an unused swath of commercial land along Lougheed Highway originally slated for a mall.

The name is gone and, in some cases, so are the vehicles featured in the marketing blitz to lure Las Vegans into taking public transportation.

Here are the selected local concert events from this week's edition of Weekend. To browse more events, or submit your own, go to www.nhregister.com/events. What shows you plan on catching?

From late summer through winter, millions of squid return to spawn in Puget Sound, and before they do that they pack a hearty appetite gorging on small baitfish and crustaceans.

Bally's Atlantic City, Boardwalk at Park Place, 609-340-2000, ballysac.com. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, 1 Borgata Way, 609-317-1000, theborgata.com. Stone Temple Pilots, 8 tonight (Event Center), $85 and $75. Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, 9 tonight (Music Box), $50. Jackson Browne with David Lindley, 8 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday (Event Center), $76, $66 and $56. From Good Homes, 9 p.m. tomorrow (Music ...

Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and West Hollywood have hundreds of shopping events planned for the Vogue-sponsored celebration next Friday. Last year's first installment of Fashion's Night Out, an effort to jump-start a sagging industry with an evening full of shopping events in major cities all over the world that was brought to us by New York-based Vogue magazine and the Council of Fashion ...

Some worried that moving traffic from Jackson Boulevard to Mountain View Road will mean decrease in business.

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What To Do is a free listing of special events in the city and region. Priority will be given to community groups, non-profit organizations and family activities. It is not intended as a free listing for businesses which have other promotional options within the newspaper.

When the clock strikes midnight as Thursday turns into Friday and the throng along Las Vegas Boulevard delivers a raucous a cappella version of \"Auld Lang Syne,\" exuberant voices will mingle with the popping of countless Champagne corks. Courtney Rich doesn't want to be a party pooper or to ...

A car smashed into a fire hydrant Friday during a hit-and-run crash in Rancho Cordova.

Prosecutors say a Las Vegas court documents process server and his youthful accomplice, who were both linked to murders in two separate shooting deaths in January, have also been connected to a string of armed robberies at grocery store casinos.

This week, one of Vegas nightlife's own found his way into the international press. Cy Waits, the 34-year-old co-managing partner of Las Vegas's most successful nightclub, XS -- among other properties he oversees with his twin brother, Jesse -- was arrested on charges of driving under the influence.

Community CALENDAR Today Salvation Army Pahrump Corps Youth Night — 5:30-8 p.m., Worship Center at 721 Buol Road. VFW donation dinner — 5-7 p.m., VFW Post 10054, Homestead Road, $6. Open to the public. Prayer meeting — 5:30 p.m., Victory Christian Center, Highway 160 and Winery Road. Christian Home Educators (P.V.C.H.E.) — meeting to bowl,[...]

The only thing laborious about this weekend should be trying to fit in all of the top-notch events. But it will be worth the effort. Once again, the last big weekend of summer is looking like one of the best. Read on for some of the Best Ways to Spend the Labor Day Weekend.

In news articles and editorials over the past couple years, we here at The Intelligencer have made something of a thing, if you will, about the fact the Quinte Exhibition may be holding it's last fall fair at the hallowed, but tired, Quinte Exhibition & Raceway fairgrounds.[...]

The following is the weekly memo sent by City Manager Dan Martinez to the City Council on Aug. 26. It has been edited for style and length.

Change the name of the Detroit mayor's residence? How about the Motor City Casino Mayoral Residence, or the GM Volt House of Tomorrow?

*Rap star T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Cottle were arrested on drug charges last night after police smelled alleged marijuana wafting from their vehicle, the AP is reporting. The arrests for possession of a controlled substance occurred on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood during a traffic stop, Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy Mark Pope told [...]