Brushing the hair out of his eyes, Julian Elias tilts his head back and gazes up at something most Las Vegans have seen. The Hoover Dam.
Clark County commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to hire a more expensive food service provider for the Clark County Detention Center after the company protested the bid outcome.
An engineering firm will provide design services for the Boulder Creek Park project in the amount of $132,500 under an agreement approved Tuesday by the Henderson City Council.
Teacher preparation programs in Nevada are not adequately training the next generation of educators, according to a national study that reviewed more than 1,000 programs and was released Tuesday.
UNLV’s baseball program will host five camps this summer directed by the Rebels coaching staff.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Padres Kevin Quackenbush (1-0); 51s, Greg Burke (1-1)
Zack Wheeler lived up to the hype in his major league debut, pitching six scoreless innings to lead the New York Mets to a 6-1 victory over the first-place Atlanta Braves and a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday night.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
The Las Vegas Philharmonic revives, and expands on, a holiday tradition this Independence Day with its first Fourth of July concert in three years, adding new elements to the celebration at downtown’s Smith Center and the adjacent Symphony Park.
LOS ANGELES — Across the dizzying, colorful show floor at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where players could become all manner of things, like a throat-slashing 18th century pirate, zombie killer, a guardian of the last city on earth, music-making sorcerer, ruthless Roman general, shape-shifting creature, goblin slayer and Batman.
Volunteers gathered before 5 a.m. June 13 at Red Rock Canyon to help measure and band hummingbirds as part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network’s seasonal coordinated monitoring program. Birds were weighed, measured and tagged to help further knowledge about the tiny creatures, including their life expectancy.
Don Hill still remembers his first professional gig playing saxophone on a Mardi Gras float in New Orleans, the city he grew up in.
Read about dining-related events and promotions across the Las Vegas Valley.
