: I have five, large Italian cypress that are all four years old. When I returned from my trip last week, I noticed one of them looking very dry and sick, I unfortunately watered it heavily for two days and it quickly died. I’ve been researching and reading about mites and cankers that the cypress is prone to. I’m concerned about the other four trees and what I should do.
Several years ago I wrote a column about safe havens, i.e., our homes, our spaces, the places in which we live out our lives.
When you are a member of a military family, you get good at adapting to change. And no one knows this better than Christian (a lieutenant commander in the Canadian Navy), his wife, Karin, and their two young sons. The family has traveled across the country, adjusting to many new homes, schools and surroundings along the way.
Shiny, sparkling and attractive to the eye. Metallics have a magical appeal that is hard to resist.
: We are selling our house and the new buyers had a home inspector check it out. One of the items he found was in the main electrical panel. He said there are two wires attached to one breaker and that it has to be corrected. How can I do that?
Moses Morgan, Ben Vozzola and Chris McCall are used to tough assignments on the basketball court. And the star Northwest League guards wouldn’t have it any other way.
• LAKE MEAD — Fishing has been slow with fewer anglers on the water. Jigging with anchovies has been the best method for luring stripers in the Vegas Wash arm. Catfish are taking cut anchovies on the bottom. Largemouth and smallmouth bass fishing has been good in isolated coves near Stewarts Point.
The outcome was downright ugly the last time the UNLV football team ran into a top-notch defense: a 41-0 rout at the hands of Texas Christian on Oct. 31.
More than two years removed from baseball, alleged steroid user Sammy Sosa barely resembles the man who hit 609 homers over 18 seasons before retiring in 2007.
• ARBOR VIEW — Girls cross country runner Kourtney Willey placed 15th at the Class 4A state meet to help the Aggies to a second-place team finish.
To my surprise, several anglers already were lining the pond bank when I pulled into the parking lot at Veterans Memorial Park in Boulder City on Friday. I figured there would be some fishing pressure, but I wasn’t expecting to see that many people on a weekday.
Faith Lutheran track athlete Ryan Bartholomew and Boulder City softball, volleyball and basketball standout Paxton Fleming have been named state winners of the Wendy’s High School Heisman.
Blood was gushing from Miguel Cotto’s left eyebrow, rendering the WBO welterweight champion virtually blind.
It’s a little after 8 a.m. Wednesday, and a chill hovers over downtown. … A rickety old guy with a red, white and blue afghan across his lap zooms his wheelchair-scooter between people on a Fourth Street sidewalk. … The street is already lined with people, from the dirty part near Charleston Boulevard all the way to the gaudy glitz of Neonopolis. Organizers say they got a decent turnout this year for the annual Veterans Day Parade, which ran from 10 a.m. until long past noon.
A story in Wednesday’s Nevada section omitted David Wall’s name as the District Court judge who denied a request for a preliminary injunction to stop Green Valley High School’s productions of “Rent” and “The Laramie Project,” which contain content some parents found objectionable.
Florence McClure received a well-deserved standing ovation Wednesday for her work to empower women and help rape victims and female prisoners. She’d received such ovations before. This was the final one. This was her funeral.
Jay Leno, Terry Fator and Larry King will rev up a sold-out house tonight at the “Rock for the Cure” fundraiser at The Mirage.
Las Vegas police raided six locations Wednesday morning in connection with criminal investigations into the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. Part of the investigations involved a brawl last year that resulted in the stabbings of two rival gang members.
A fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex that failed to sell at auction in Las Vegas last month has been bought by a private buyer who intends to see it displayed in a museum, an auctioneer said Wednesday.
The young stripper wrapped herself around a chrome pole inside a giant Plexiglas box on the back of a rolling truck.
CARSON CITY — A national think tank warned Nevada legislators Wednesday against making decisions that could prolong rather than shorten the recession.
A local architecture firm that recently won an $8.3 million federal contract to redesign a U.S. border crossing in California is being investigated by the Federal Election Commission for irregular campaign contributions to Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, who is up for re-election next year.