For decades, Americans have relied on plain metal folding chairs and tables to accommodate visiting relatives and friends. And for those same decades the furniture has been hidden away in closets and garages until it was absolutely necessary to get it out and use it.
: My husband replaced a chandelier in our dining room. The problem is that the fixture he removed had a larger base than the new one he installed, which covered the hole in the ceiling. He is not good at drywall repair but he hung the light anyway and it looks really stupid with a gap around the base of the chandelier. Should we just caulk around the gap or what?
A special meeting of the Clark County Advisory Board to Manage Wildlife will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday to discuss pending legislation that could affect sportsmen, off-highway vehicle enthusiasts and Nevada’s wildlife. The meeting will be in the Pueblo Room of the Clark County Government Center, 500 Grand Central Parkway.
Justin Lamb is one of few racers who have been happy to hear that rain washed out a day of competition.
• LAKE MEAD — The Vegas Wash area continues to produce fair-sized stripers. Typical baits are cut anchovies, sardines and squid.
If “hope” and “change” were the themes of President Obama’s campaign, those words soon could apply to everyone — including the big man in the White House — who so badly wants a college football playoff.
• ARBOR VIEW — Boys swimmer Brian Martinez was first in the 200-yard individual medley and 100 breaststroke against Durango. Girls swimmer Jordann Steinberg won the 100 freestyle against Durango.
When Carlos Lopez joined a startup boys basketball program called Findlay Prep in 2006, he never aspired to win a national championship.
Ending a six-year run as Mojave’s boys basketball coach, Tony Hopkins resigned after the season to spend more time watching daughter Chelsea play at Duke.
Some parents were incredulous when they heard that continued enrollment growth was expected at Tanaka Elementary School and Givens Elementary School. Their neighborhoods have been hit hard by the foreclosure crisis.
The military chief and commander of 4,000 Air and Army National Guard troops in Nevada will step down from her post when her term expires in June, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Military Office confirmed Wednesday.
North Las Vegas police are asking for help finding a 7-week-old girl they say has a severe infectious disease and her mother, who refuses to seek medical treatment for the baby.
The three candidates competing for the Las Vegas Municipal Judge Department 1 seat are unanimous about one thing — whoever wins the seat must work hard to be both efficient and humane.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday on bills aimed at reducing energy use in state buildings and further examining Hoover Dam as a hydropower source.
CARSON CITY — A new fiscal analysis further underscores that lawmakers will need to raise taxes to keep the doors of schools open and the doors of prison cells locked, according to Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley.
CARSON CITY — The father of a former teen prostitute along with advocates for children urged legislators Wednesday to pass a bill that would allow authorities to confiscate property from pimps and fine them as much as $1 million.
North Las Vegas City Council members and mayoral candidates Shari Buck and William Robinson are neck-in-neck in terms of campaign fundraising so far this year, each posting earnings of nearly $150,000 on contributions and expenses reports due Tuesday.
Jim Banner, a blue-collar Nevadan who lent his plain-spoken voice to the state Assembly in the 1970s and ’80s, died Monday. He was 87.
Stavros Anthony and Bernadette Anthony were misidentified in a photograph in the On the Scene column in Sunday’s Living section.
Two candidates have emerged as clear fundraising leaders in the contest for the Ward 4 Las Vegas City Council seat, far outpacing their nearest competitors with six-figure campaign war chests.
