The Colorado River provides varied opportunities for rafting adventures through the spectacular canyons it has carved. Rafting options fall into two categories — one-day trips on accessible stretches of the river and multi-day tours through the mighty Grand Canyon of three days to two weeks or longer.
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There are not many things more mouthwatering as a fresh cantaloupe on a hot summer night. And they’re even tastier coming from your garden.
Bishop Gorman High School celebrated its 29th annual Knight of the Gael reception and dinner by honoring Dorothy and Amador “Chi Chi” Bengochea on March 10 at the Red Rock Resort.
It’s 7 p.m. Monday. The retirement home is silent. As you walk through the halls determining whether you entered the wrong building, you see a room filled with a group of teens seated in a circle of chairs facing inward. It’s a room full of strangers to you. As you walk in and brave the awkwardness of being the new kid, you take a seat. It’s like the first day of high school all over again.
Rebecca Lane interviewed students at Cheyenne High School
Gasoline is doing that dreaded creeping upward thing again. Between the 15th of February and March, each gallon pumped 50 more cents from our wallets. And, according to AAA spokesman Michael Geeser, another $4 mark is “very reachable” by Memorial Day.
Call it the Vegas Added Plausibility Effect, the way any urban legend somehow seems more believable when it’s set in, or otherwise involves, Las Vegas. The phenomenon can be found all over the Internet on urban legend and modern folklore sites that tell stories about dead bodies found at Strip hotels and tales of absurdly lucky gamblers.
About 15 years ago, during her days as a Las Vegas tourist, Jean Scott walked miles along the Strip just to redeem a coupon.
BUDDING BUSINESS: The question of whether marijuana is useful medication or an illicit drug is intensifying in Nevada. The number of people registering for the Nevada Medical Marijuana Program is surging as federal and local law enforcement officials are raiding storefronts for allegedly distributing cannabis illegally.
The Las Vegas economy had limped along for several years, causing civic leaders to wonder when, or if, better days were ahead.
Josh Griffin is a self-described “political junkie” who has managed political races since college, including both of his dad’s runs to be mayor of Reno. His father, Jeff Griffin, was a two-term mayor of The Biggest Little City in the World from 1995 to 2003.
Residents and business owners who want a say in how Nevada will enact provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have a chance to speak up several times in the coming weeks.
Supporters of an effort to legalize Internet poker in Nevada brought in Washington, D.C., attorney Tom Goldstein to discuss federal issues surrounding online gaming.
Doug Hampton, newly indicted on conflict-of-interest charges, all but handed a clear case to federal prosecutors in revealing he had conducted business as a Senate lobbyist within weeks of leaving a Capitol Hill job, according to attorneys following the case.
Retired Army Col. Bill Olds knows how Col. Moammar Gadhafi operates. After all, the Libyan tyrant put a $500,000 bounty on his head after Olds led Egyptian forces in the capture of Libyan hijackers in 1985.