It will continue to be chilly for the next couple of days, but Las Vegas area residents can expect clearer skies and gradually warming temperatures through New Year’s Day.
Like the relative who spikes the eggnog, bargain hunters helped retailers hide from the holiday pain the day after Christmas by filling stores and mall concourses to take advantage of deep discounts.
Last year, an estimated 18,000 Christmas trees were collected for recycling in the Las Vegas Valley, representing fewer than 10 percent of the estimated 250,000 trees that help Southern Nevadans celebrate the season.
An 11-hour standoff between police and a Las Vegas man involving his 1-year-old child ended peacefully with the man’s surrender and arrest early Friday morning.
The reasons why some cancer-stricken families seek public support when times get tough can turn Teresa Gomez’s day into a crying spell. But in the short five months she’s spent as a “patient navigator” for the Nevada Cancer Institute, one story haunts her.
Matthew Callister, a former state legislator and City Councilman, has taken up the cause of two Las Vegas women angry over the decision to permanently close the F Street, Interstate 15 underpass near downtown as part of a highway widening project.
The economic slowdown has delayed yet another large-scale commercial development in Las Vegas, though construction will continue on the $850 million Tivoli Village at Queensridge at Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive, an executive said.
Justin Findlay, general manager of Findlay Chevrolet, hasn’t met anyone who is buying a car before year-end to get an income tax break.
Passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport fell 14.7 percent to about 3.2 million arrivals and departures in November, officials said Friday.
