Everything from reducing waste in casinos to recycling cigarette butts was honored Friday by the Las Vegas Business Press at the 2012 Green Awards.
Alex Wiley doesn’t need an app for that. He works at home and provides over-the-top luxury to high-end clients, who have included Lady Gaga and royal families in the Middle East, over the Internet.
It’s beginning to look familiar again, like it did when the mere mention of Tiger Woods made the putting stroke of anyone on the leaderboard of a major get just a little quicker. It sure sounded familiar when he holed out from the bunker on the final hole Friday, and cheers echoed off the giant grandstands surrounding the 18th green.
Officials with the U.S Bureau of Land Management will have three public meetings in August as they begin an environmental study for a proposed open pit gold mine in northeastern Nevada.
Federal safety regulators are blaming the death of a worker at a gold mine in northeast Nevada on the negligent failure of Newmont USA and its tire contractor to take adequate steps to protect employees from toxic chemicals.
Waking up to another shooting in the U.S. is not how any of us want to start our day, as “Aurora” joins “Columbine” as the second massacre in a Denver suburb and also joins “Gabby Giffords,” “Fort Hood” and “Virginia Tech” as shorthand for horrific shootings by unstable men.
Two Las Vegas-based Vietnam War vetarans made an emotional return to the Southeast Asian nation in April to help Habitat for Humanity build homes in rural areas.
It’s the fasting from food and drink that everybody knows about. But when Ramadan arrives, the other kinds of fasting it involves can be pretty tough, too.
For today’s generation of aging adults, individuality and independence are values they’ve lived out for decades. As the years go by, lifestyle changes become a necessity, due to limited mobility and health concerns, but it doesn’t necessarily mean giving up personality.
Academic performance expectations, attendance at school functions, and balancing extra-curricular activities with time for homework – parents and children have a lot to talk about at the beginning of the school year. Few conversations, however, will be as important – or as fraught with tension – as discussing how children should, and should not, behave online.
As a bride-to-be, you invest huge amounts of time, energy and money to make your big day unforgettable. Unfortunately, all of the stress associated with planning a wedding can take its toll, and you may neglect your own well-being in the chaos. Inadequate sleep, poor diet and high levels of stress can leave you feeling and looking less than fabulous, but with a few healthy and sustainable adjustments, you can look forward to your walk down the aisle.
When a community faces a disaster, it’s important to have an all-star team onsite to help provide fast relief. Much like with disasters relief efforts, speed is essential in baseball and pain relief.
On another benign day when the only concern was pools forming in the bottom of pot bunkers from overnight rain, Brandt Snedeker became the latest player to match the course record at Royal Lytham & St. Annes with a 6-under-par 64 that gave him a one-shot lead over former UNLV standout Adam Scott. Tiger Woods was four shots back after a 67.