SYDNEY (AP) — Sydney beachfront properties were flooded and coastal infrastructure damaged after a large swell combined with a king tide to batter the Australian shore, officials said Thursday. Several homes were evacuated at Botany Bay in Sydney’s south around midnight as waves surged across the coast, according to New South Wales State Emergency Service spokesman Andrew Edmunds. Further north at Sydney’s premier Bondi Beach, the coast was lashed by a 5.5-meter (18-foot) swell, officials said.

• Dita Von Teese brings opulence to her second Las Vegas residency at the Venetian Resort. Dita Von Teese swirls in her larger-than-life champagne glass and the crowd leaps to its feet in joyous applause. She cups a strawberry sponge the size of a couch pillow and squeezes. Water cascades over her body. The iconic act is one of the many reasons fans are flocking to the Voltaire inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas to watch the vedette's second residency. "I first started performing that with my friend, Catherine D'Lish,...

In Carson City, Nev., home health care workers will be at the statehouse on Tuesday asking lawmakers for a big raise, citing growing demand as the state's population rapidly ages. It's the second such request in two years. A campaign in 2023 delivered a $16 minimum wage for home caregivers, who are employed by private agencies that are funded through Medicaid. Prior to that, their wages had been stuck between $10 and $12 an hour for more than a decade. "It was just ridiculous," says Regina Brown-Ross, a home care...

Dead and Company closed out their first weekend back at Las Vegas’ Sphere Saturday by paying tribute to the late Phil Lesh with a rendition of “Box of Rain,” the bassist’s signature Grateful Dead song. The performance marked the first time the Dead offshoot had played the American Beauty classic since Lesh’s death. As John Mayer led the band on the song, archival photos of the Grateful Dead were shown on the Sphere’s massive screen. Lesh, who co-founded the Grateful Dead, died in October 2024 at the age of 84....

LAS VEGAS, NV — After several Tesla vehicles suddenly exploded into flames at a Las Vegas facility, Democrats blamed climate change as the most likely culprit behind the detonations. Shrouded in the thick, black smoke of burning electric vehicles, Democrats issued remarks at a press conference to underscore the existential threat posed by climate change and the need to reduce carbon emissions. "The Trump and Musk administration has done nothing to tackle the climate crisis, and now we're seeing the consequences," said Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. "It is a sad...

Multiple vehicles at a Tesla service center in Las Vegas were set ablaze in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and the FBI is not ruling out terrorism as a possibility. Officials say five vehicles were damaged in the incident, including the two that were set on fire.FBI Las Vegas Special Agent in Charge Spencer Evans told reporters on Tuesday that the incident "certainly has some of the hallmarks" of a terrorist attack, but that it was still too early to say for sure. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk condemned the latest attack on his electric vehicle company as an act of “terrorism” after Nevada police confirmed a “targeted attack” on a Tesla facility in Las Vegas. Early Tuesday morning, a suspect dressed in black used Molotov cocktails and a firearm to carry out the attack on a Tesla Collision Center, according to the FBI and Nevada authorities. The suspect also spray-painted “RESIST” on the building. “This level of violence is insane and deeply wrong. Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to...

RuPaul's Drag Race Live! just celebrated its 1,000th performance, and five years in, the Las Vegas revue is more important and needed now more than ever, according to its creators. PEOPLE caught up with World of Wonder cofounders and RuPaul's Drag Race executive producers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey ahead of the milestone show at The Flamingo on Saturday, March 15 to reflect on its past, present and future. "We are super excited and grateful," Barbato said of the milestone. "I think we're grateful of all the casts that have...

Beyoncé is now bringing the “Cowboy Carter” 2025 U.S. tour to Las Vegas on July 25. Find tickets to all North American tour dates SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, StubHub, and Ticketmaster. In support of her recent multi-Grammy-winning album, “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé is heading out on a 2025 North American tour opening Monday, April 28 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. She is set to perform at seven major venues throughout the summer, also playing Soldier Field in Chicago, MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NRG Stadium in Houston, Northwest Stadium in Landover,...