For the thousands who have attended Country in the Park at Mountain’s Edge since the event debuted three years ago, one of the highlights of the festival has been the choreographed music and dance performances held in the community’s Exploration Park located on Buffalo Drive.
Decades ago, sellers priced a little high to leave room to negotiate down. Buyers typically offered 5 percent less. Then they negotiated and settled at a price in between. Today, there is so much variability in the housing market that it’s impossible to use a pat formula for coming up with an offer price.
Instead of posting a lineup on her dugout wall, Shadow Ridge softball coach Cynthia Winter puts up a batting circle.
It’s one of the year’s best weekends, and even after months of speculation, only some questions will be answered immediately.
Former UNLV running back Frank Summers knew his four visits to NFL teams were job interviews, and he wanted to look the part by wearing a suit and tie to all of them.
After tearing it up in spring training for the Toronto Blue Jays, former Houston Astros outfielder Jason Lane thought he had punched his ticket back to the big leagues.
CARSON CITY — A former state computer technician has been sentenced to at least 41/2 years in prison for using his state position to harass his ex-wife and purchase computers for personal use.
John L. Smith’s Friday column incorrectly stated the day of the Joe Williams Benefit Concert. The concert will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at the South Point Showroom.
Across from UNLV, there is a church. Inside that church Friday morning, a man who looked remarkably like Michael Jackson (post-crazy) joined a woman who kinda-sorta resembled Charo (pre-who?), in performing for poor and homeless children.
Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and Olympic swimming sensation Michael Phelps have kept a lid on the status of their still hazy relationship.
CARSON CITY — Wedding chapel lobbyists and advocates for programs to stop domestic violence clashed Friday over a bill to help fund those programs by adding $5 to the cost of a Nevada marriage license.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Assembly advanced a plan Friday to create a database that would make it easier to find low-income housing.
WASHINGTON — Southern Nevada’s top water official on Friday recommended to Congress that some money the government plans to raise in a campaign against global warming should be steered into research and financing to upgrade water plants and pipelines.
Serious disciplinary action is being contemplated by the Gaming Control Board because of problems at Las Vegas nightclubs, problems some gaming licensees are ignoring, board member Randall Sayre said Friday.
A coroner’s inquest jury Friday cleared two Henderson police officers involved in a fatal shooting last month at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus.
By any measure, 15-year-old Patrick Atkins died a ghastly death.
Ballots for the June 2 Las Vegas city election are already being printed, but a fight over including two measures on those ballots is still going on.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada assemblyman said Friday that he was not trying to get back at any particular governor with his bill that would require a legislative committee to review and confirm some gubernatorial appointments.
For advocates of legalized prostitution in Las Vegas, it was like a scene out of a dream: a licensed brothel owner and a card-carrying prostitute openly holding court inside a casino on the Strip.
A state hearing on the last and most contentious part of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s groundwater pipeline plan has been delayed until fall 2011.
The married couple accused of duping senior citizens and Asians out of more than $150,000 in a pigeon drop scam were indicted this week on multiple charges, including kidnapping, robbing an elderly person and obtaining money under false pretenses.
Citing an aggressive pitch from Las Vegas officials that stressed plentiful rooms at reasonable rates and the opportunity to stage additional fan activities on the city’s famous Strip, NASCAR announced Thursday it will be moving its annual season-ending party to Las Vegas.
