: I want to replace the gas cooktop on my counter with a new one. What do I do?
Green thumbs from around the world will converge on Las Vegas this month for the 2009 International Master Gardeners Conference at the Alexis Park. Dates are Sunday through March 26. The event is sponsored by the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and coordinated by Southern Nevada Master Gardeners, who have planned a four-day program that celebrates not only the brilliant neon of the Las Vegas Valley but also the bright and lush gardens they have nurtured from the unforgiving soils of the Mojave Desert.
Be it damage from excessive rain, a small fire, vandalism or a car accidentally driving through the wall of your home, never fear because help is only a phone call away.
If you watch television at all, you can’t help but run across the programs that offer decorating makeovers and how-to ideas. As we all know, HGTV is a staple for those of us hooked on decorating and home improvement, and many other networks offer their own programming.
It might be awhile before D.J. Richardson can contribute on the field for Durango’s softball team.
PHILADELPHIA — Same seed. Same opponent. This NCAA Tournament matchup has a familiar feel.
What do a talking aardvark, a dwarf running the high hurdles, Fabio playing the banjo and Bob Knight watching NCAA Tournament games inside a Las Vegas sports book all have in common?
Shortly after losing the Sunset Region in the most agonizing way last year, Centennial’s boys golf team sat around a table at a local eatery and commiserated.
For someone considered politically liberal, President Barack Obama was rather conservative when filling out his bracket for the NCAA Tournament.
Bonanza’s girls track team had two girls qualify for the state meet last season, and they shared more than a team name. Sisters Shirley and Alice Pitts were the Bengals’ only qualifiers, and both are back looking to lead the team this season.
• LAKE MEAD — Striped bass are still hitting on anchovies in the Las Vegas Wash area, with the most productive hours in the morning and late afternoon.
What would you think if a stranger walked into your outdoor club meeting and asked the attendees to reveal their favorite hunting and fishing spots? What if he rolled out Nevada topographical maps and handed you and your friends a highlighter?
When order has been restored and all the nonmajor basketball programs are sent home from the NCAA Tournament — or, in the case of this year’s Cinderella-lacking bracket, all the below-average-to-awful Big Ten teams and Arizona — the Final Four will be staged in Detroit.
The tent city on Foremaster Lane in downtown Las Vegas has the city in an endless loop, Councilman Ricki Barlow complained Wednesday. City crews regularly clean up the litter, urine and feces, while the people pack up their belongings or have them hauled off by the authorities. And a few days later it needs to be done again.
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is revising its estimates of how long nuclear waste can be kept safely at power-generating facilities as confidence shrinks that the radioactive material ever would be shipped to a Yucca Mountain repository.
A sweeping education reform bill heard by the Legislature Wednesday would reward teachers for better performance, improve their starting salaries and make the state Board of Education a largely appointive rather than elective body.
Altovise Davis was the light of Sammy Davis Jr.‘s life, “his jewel,” according to close friend Breck Wall.
CARSON CITY — Though he expressed concerns, Gov. Jim Gibbons did not rule out accepting a controversial $77 million portion of $286 million in unemployment funds available to Nevada through the federal economic stimulus law.
Two men accused of bursting into a Las Vegas home in October and abducting a 6-year-old boy to seek revenge for a drug deal gone bad were indicted this week on one charge of conspiring to kidnap a child.
The trial for two brothers accused of stabbing a man to death in 2006 over a fake check scheme started Wednesday in District Court.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers were told Wednesday that many doctors, counselors and other professionals who deal with seniors don’t always recognize signs of abuse and need to get online training that would help them spot such mistreatment.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers were told Wednesday that the state’s worker compensation system makes it tough on injured Nevadans to get the medical care and follow-up rehabilitation and training they need to return to their jobs.