For the third year in a row, a major change will greet visitors to Las Vegas Motor Speedway when they begin arriving Friday for the 12th annual NASCAR Sprint Cup weekend.
UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger urges his Rebels to drive to the basket, so he should certainly be comfortable with his role Saturday at Las Vegas Motor speedway.
Thinking of making improvements to your kitchen? There’s a super material out in the marketplace for your countertops. It’s extremely durable and versatile, can be shaped and colored to meet specific needs, costs less per square foot than most other materials and it’s green. It’s also the same material used to create sidewalks and patios — sort of.
: I had to turn off the water supply valve at the top of my water heater. So I turned it, but it kept on turning and turning without shutting off the water. A neighbor of mine said it is a gate valve and they are cheap. Anyway, I now have to replace the valve. Are there any options for replacing it with the same type of valve?
For those of you who read this column regularly, you know that I’m a huge fan of painting; I love to paint and am really bad at it.
There are now new homes on the market that are getting greener with every passing week. While that’s great for those in the market for a new high-performance home, what about the thousands of us with existing homes, condos and apartments that weren’t built to the newer green standards? There are many ways to green a home.
: After watching a video of orchards and the use of mulch around the base of the trees, I am considering ordering an electric chipper to deal with my tree and shrub trimmings. But, the chipper isn’t cheap and I have heard that you should not use tree trimmings for mulch because the decomposition consumes nitrogen that would otherwise be used by the mulched plants. Any suggestions? Should I compost it first?
SALT LAKE CITY — One giant step at a time, 7-foot-2-inch senior Luke Nevill is leading Utah closer to the Mountain West Conference title.
After a long stretch of dominance by Southern Nevada schools in the large-school boys state tournament, there has been a drought.
SALT LAKE CITY — The best thing you can say today: A strategy for UNLV’s basketball team to make a third straight NCAA Tournament has become abundantly clear.
Jazmine Jarvis knew she had big shoes to fill this season.
Trailing by nine points in the second half, UNLV looked beaten against the Mountain West Conference’s best team.
When Carmel Canyon homeowners launched their first volley of shots against the Clark County Shooting Park early last year, one of their biggest complaints was about the noise they expected to be associated with the park.
Shaun Hilton appeared to have carved out a niche at point guard for the Moapa Valley boys basketball team.
A simple message is printed across the back of the Centennial girls basketball team’s warm-up shirts: “We will not lower our standards to raise yours.”
• LAKE MEAD — Fishing for stripers in the Vegas Wash has been productive for anglers using cut anchovies. Hemenway has been slow, with no trout or stripers. Fishing has been good in the Echo Bay area for largemouth and stripers. Anglers have been catching stripers with cut bait in the meadows area across from Overton and Stewarts Point.
Before Anthony Marshall ever took the court for Mojave High, Rattlers coach Tony Hopkins knew he was looking at a future star.
CARSON CITY — Police and firefighter union leaders on Wednesday ripped a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce survey that found their members earn far more than those in similar jobs across the state and nation.
Three months after officials decided to demolish the crumbling Casa Rosa family public housing complex, residents there are still waiting and wondering when they will be moved from housing they say is unsafe.
With her voice clear and demeanor composed, a mother testified Wednesday about the sexual assault of her 2-year-old daughter, which was recorded on video.
A Las Vegas justice of the peace was sentenced to spend two days in jail Wednesday after he pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor battery domestic violence.
A recent dust-up in the Ward 6 Las Vegas City Council race drew attention to what might be one of the main issues — whether the incumbent, Steve Ross, has crossed an ethical line while serving as both a councilman and as an officer in an organization that represents construction unions.
Money for police, schools, transportation and health care would come to Nevada as a result of the omnibus spending bill that passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, according to Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev.