Valley of Fire rated top natural treasure in Southern Nevada

The Valley of Fire State Park has been selected in an unscientific, online poll as the No. 1 “natural treasure” in the Las Vegas area in the state Tourism Commission’s Discover Your Nevada contest.

North Las Vegas plans for ‘massive’ city police, firefighter layoffs

North Las Vegas City Manager Timothy Hacker said Monday that police and fire union officials “rejected a plan to extend a money saving salary freeze,” and that city officials are now planning for “massive layoffs.”

Interior secretary touts new solar power plant in Ivanpah Valley

On a blustery Monday in the Ivanpah Valley that seemed better suited for a wind farm, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar flipped the ceremonial switch on the nation’s first large-scale solar power plant to be built on public land.

Police probing mysterious Churchill Downs death

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Investigators are trying to uncover clues in the mysterious death of a track worker whose body was found in a horse stable just a matter of hours after I’ll Have Another was crowned champion of the Kentucky Derby.

Head to web before you hit the trail

Entering a web address can mean experiencing more than 400 miles of trails and 316,000 acres of pristine meadows and forest just outside the computer screen.

Sun City women seize opportunity to learn piano in their 70s

It’s never too late to learn. That’s the mantra Ruth Johnson has taken to heart.
At 70, she took a leap of faith and changed a lifelong yearning to play the piano into a reality. Now 85, she gives recitals at Desert Spring United Methodist Church, 120 N. Pavilion Center Drive. Her latest was March 10.
She credits her success to the late Bernard Baskin, from whom she took lessons for four years.
“He helped me with my fingering,” she said. “He said, ‘You should touch the key so it brings out the story of the piece.’ “

South Korea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.

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