For former Green Valley High School student Kimberly Refeen life was as normal as it could be.
Show business is like high school with money, satirist Martin Mull once said. We wondered what real high school was like for the current class of Las Vegas headliners.
BUST FOR BUILDERS: Construction was the state’s second-largest and fastest-growing employer in 2006, but now construction unemployment hovers around 30 percent statewide.
Emotions, and job options, run the gamut valleywide. Have the right training — think health care — and a job is waiting. If you don’t, waiting for a position to open in a still-sluggish industry like construction or gaming might not seem worth the wait at all.
The first civil trial stemming from Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak began Monday, a little over two years after public health officials first revealed the string of infections related to a Las Vegas endoscopy clinic.