Henderson high schooler hopes to make it to the 2016 Olympics as a boxing champion.
Tucked away alongside a stretch of the 125-mile Amargosa River, west of Pahrump and east of Death Valley National Park, is the quaint, tiny town of Shoshone, Calif.
Bryan Vellinga was on a path to become an accountant when he took a horticulture class and discovered his green thumb. Vellinga owns North Las Vegas-based Garden Farms, a company that not only plants personal gardens in people’s backyards, but teaches them to care for the plants, too.
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—“Miss Nelson is Missing” is scheduled for 10 a.m. today in the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Tickets are $8.75 in advance. Visit ctcinc.ort or call 800-606-0424.
In keeping with the ever-evolving theme of community in downtown, a former Las Vegas resident-turned-clothing-designer is moving his manufacturing operations to the Stitch Factory.
The shrinking noise nuisance posed by airliners taking off from McCarran International Airport stands to open up hundreds of acres of raw land ruled off-limits to residential and numerous other developments for two decades.
John Stephenson expects to see a more positive outlook from exhibitors at the International Builders’ Show that runs today through Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
New-home sales jumped 42 percent in Las Vegas last year with 5,544 closings, putting an end to the declining housing market, analyst Dennis Smith said Monday.