DEAR READERS: Many of you have written asking if plastic water bottles are safe to reuse. With so many of us using them, it’s a good time to revisit the issue.
The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s desert landscape design classes, “Landscape Design with the Desert in Mind,” will run for eight weeks starting the evenings of Sept. 14 and 15. During this series of classes that I assembled, you’ll learn to design your own landscapes and how to install them. For more information, please call our master gardener help line at 257-5555.
DEAR GAIL: We’ve just finished landscaping our backyard and want to spend more time out on our patio. We’d like it to feel like another family room, not a typical outdoor patio. Any ideas? — Betsy P.
Until a few weeks ago, southern Utah’s Newcastle Reservoir was little more to me than a name on a map or one of those brown signs you drive past on your way to somewhere else. Driving past the signs to Newcastle Reservoir is something I’d done for more years than I care to admit.
A billboard near the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind., recently grabbed Fighting Irish football coach Charlie Weis‘ attention — and it wasn’t an ad for McDonald’s.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived fashionably late Wednesday at his gym off Spring Mountain Road, where his father, Floyd Sr., was waiting for him. Their on-again, off-again relationship is back on as the elder Mayweather has been a welcome visitor at his son’s training camp and everyone seems happy.
• LAKE MEAD — Anglers are finding fair fishing in the morning, then are leaving before it gets too hot and windy. Top-water action continues to yield stripers. Anglers are catching fish by jigging or using cut anchovies. Fishing for catfish is good during lowlight conditions using anchovies in the Vegas Wash area. Fishing has been good for largemouth, smallmouth and striped bass near Stewart’s Point.
Mark Tondryk spent six years as an assistant to Basic’s Larry Burgess, the most celebrated distance coach in Southern Nevada over the past 25 years.
Pat Davis set two goals for her Durango girls tennis team this season.
Since falling a season-worst 14 games under .500 on June 16, when they were 26-40, the 51s have gone 42-31, clawing their way back to .500 (57-57) at one point.
Money might not buy happiness, but it certainly appears to contribute to success in high school athletics.
UNLV defensive coordinator Dennis Therrell prefers not to view Saturday’s season opener against Sacramento State as a player audition; it’s a football game, and winning is the priority.
Local volleyball observers know all about the Taylor Richard who hammers balls from the outside and causes opposing coaches to plan their defenses around her.
Lu Torres is compiling a list, and trust me, it’s not a list Strip hotels want to be on. It’s a list of places where women believe they were drugged before being raped.
Parks are supposed to be fun and relaxing. But a three-hour debate Wednesday about the future of parks in Mountain’s Edge subdivision was somber and tense.
A caption accompanying a photo of the California wildfires on Tuesday’s front page of the Las Vegas Review-Journal was in error. At the time, the Station Fire had scorched 164 square miles of brush.
Thomas Richardson, a convicted rapist, robber and now murderer, received the death penalty for his latest crimes.
Former Clark County Commissioner Dario Herrera wasted no time finding a job after his release from prison.
Several hundred pigeons flew the coop late Tuesday after North Las Vegas officials objected to their controversial sanctuary.
Nevada Republican Chairwoman Sue Lowden said Wednesday that she will step down from her party post to concentrate on her potential challenge to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., in the 2010 election.
A 49-year-old woman accused of throwing boiling water on another during an argument in July was arrested Tuesday on a murder charge, a Las Vegas police report states.
Lawyers for children suing Clark County’s foster care system asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to allow their lawsuit to go forward as a class action representing all of the county’s foster children.
Whitney Houston‘s comeback plans, including a rumored Las Vegas engagement, got off to a shaky start Tuesday.
A suicide bomber attacked a marketplace in Afghanistan on Wednesday near where Nevada Army National Guard soldiers are serving, killing the country’s deputy intelligence chief and 22 others who were leaving a mosque near the city’s main bazaar, authorities said.