For five days last week, eight hours a day, 91 young aspiring singers, dancers and actors were immersed in the theater through Camp Broadway at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. The students, ages 10 to 17, paid $650 tuition to learn from seasoned Broadway professionals the basics of putting together and performing a show.
Las Vegas officials approved an outside review of the city’s Fire Department on Wednesday aimed at improving service and efficiency, but only after hearing accusations the study is a waste of money meant to undermine union firefighters’ position in a labor contract impasse.
Veterans could ask the Department of Motor Vehicles to place on their driver’s licenses a designation that they were honorably discharged from the armed forces under a bill headed to the 2013 Legislature.
Wording in a sports arena tax measure must be changed before the proposal can be placed on the November ballot, the Nevada Supreme Court has decided..
Allegiant Air’s experiment with open seating ended Wednesday.
Las Vegas tech start-up Tracky this week announced the receipt of $500,000 in angel funding from Rob Roy, CEO and founder of the Switch SuperNAP.
JERUSALEM – American writer Alice Walker won’t let an Israeli publisher release a new Hebrew edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Color Purple,” saying she objects to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people.
A 22-year-old man accused of the brutal slayings and sexual assaults of a mother and daughter was indicted by a grand jury on three felony counts in an unrelated domestic violence case.
The Las Vegas City Council voted 7-0 Wednesday in favor of an agreement to lease jail space to North Las Vegas to house inmates, which would allow that city to close its jail.
A former Nevada prison inmate filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging she was denied proper medical attention and “placed at serious risk of substantial harm” when guards shackled her ankles during an ambulance ride in October to give birth to her baby.
