: In your recent article “Heat, rock mulch will harm photinias,” you state the writer may opt to use plants that tolerate heat better near hot walls. Could you provide a list of such plants? I’m getting ready to convert my lush landscape to xeriscape and have several hot areas near walls. I would like to know which plants may have a chance at surviving with rock mulch.
: We want to dress up our baby’s room with some accents and install wallpaper border around the top near the ceiling and around a door frame. We tried hanging wallpaper on a wall in the past and the results were disastrous. Please say that wallpaper border is easier.
I promised you more info on paint, and here we go.
NEW YORK — The Mountain West Conference wants to lead the fight for a major college football playoff.
• LAKE MEAD — Stripers averaging 2 to 3 pounds have been biting on anchovies in the Vegas Bay arm. Successful anglers will need to look for the fish and fish deep once they find them. There was low pressure with little success at Callville Bay last weekend. The Crawdad Cove road opened again, and trout plants resumed.
Peach baskets were long gone by then, but the shot clock and 3-point eras still were a long way off.
The best thing about the Cubs-White Sox game Wednesday night was that the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association didn’t have any of its schools involved, meaning there was little chance of a forfeit or some NIAA official trying to remake the schedule in a way that would make sense only to stupid people.
Eldorado guard Mitrell Clark entered his senior season on the radar of some college coaches.
The Arbor View girls soccer team had every excuse to be resentful of its predicament Wednesday.
In the final regular-season home game of his career, Wink Adams made certain UNLV avoided what could have been one of its most embarrassing losses in several years.
With the changing of the political guard, we all knew it was coming. Anyone who says different must be either in a state of denial or supportive of the onslaught. I’m talking about the barrage of gun control legislation that has been introduced for consideration by Congress in the past two months.
When Brad Weiss joined the Moapa Valley football team in 2005, Pirates coach Brent Lewis initially put the unknown freshman at wide receiver.
LARAMIE, Wyo. — Lee Cummard scored 24 points, and Brigham Young rallied in the second half to defeat Wyoming 78-68 on Wednesday.
Joy bubbled over for Kyle Busch on Sunday after he won the NASCAR Sprint Cup race on his home track, first in Victory Lane and later at a Las Vegas nightclub.
Coronado’s girls soccer team has had a tremendous season, posting a 16-1-2 record and reaching next week’s Southern Nevada championship game.
Reed Johnson didn’t work out at 4:30 a.m. each day and deprive himself of his favorite foods this offseason just so he could sit on the bench this year for the Chicago Cubs.
A new report released Wednesday said nearly 60 percent of Las Vegas homeowners are “upside down” on their mortgages — precisely the group of people who are least likely to benefit from the housing plan the Obama administration began detailing Wednesday.
The vivid dancer damselfly is a blue insect with transparent wings that “appear silver when rapidly beating in the sunlight.”
CARSON CITY — A legislative panel heard mixed testimony Wednesday on a plan to set up a specialized court for military veterans struggling to readjust to civilian life.
The Clark County School Board’s Tuesday decision to rezone 250 high school students from one Henderson campus to another is drawing fire from those who’ve been affected.
CARSON CITY — Far fewer people are dying in job-related accidents in Nevada as a rash of Strip construction accidents in 2007-08 has induced workers and companies to pay more attention to safety, the head of Nevada OSHA testified Wednesday.
The State Bar of Nevada filed a 16-count complaint Wednesday that accuses Las Vegas lawyer Jeanne Winkler, who was suspended a year ago, of misappropriating nearly $150,000.
Police are looking for a man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 75-year-old woman Monday while she walked near Sahara Avenue and Valley View Boulevard.
Michael Jackson‘s comeback plans include a tour of Europe, if his London engagement meets expectations and his health holds up, an insider said late Wednesday.
The 21-year-old son of a state senator arrested last year on attempted murder charges was sentenced this week in District Court to spend 19 months to five years in prison.
