The Las Vegas Monorail Co. transported its 55 millionth rider on Saturday.
They made history Saturday afternoon at the Springs Preserve to celebrate Black History Month.
In need of motivation, freshman forward Anthony Bennett got a bump from a fired-up crowd and a pep talk from his coach. It was exactly what he needed to carry UNLV over the hump.
Washington politics is front and center in Nevada’s capital as the third week of the Nevada Legislature begins Monday.
A mentally troubled man has confessed to killing his mother, whose body was found in a shallow grave in a northwest Arizona community, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Department.
The booming-voiced but pint-sized Andee Gibbs has made a local career of bringing to life many of those Jewish-mother roles that the theater world likes to reinvent about a dozen times a season.
Nevada agriculture and food exports have surpassed the $100 million mark for the first time in state history.
Pink never whispers, her voice a hand grenade with pin pulled.
Michael Harter walks down a hallway that takes him past lecture halls, a library and a cadaver lab. As the senior provost of Touro University Nevada, he is pleased that the institution he helped bring to the Silver State in 2004 is in a position to have an effect on the state’s health care issues.
When most people think of Goodwill, they think about cleaning out their closets. But accepting donations of “gently used” goods and selling those donated items in Goodwill retail stores is only part of what the organization does.
Most young people have initial high expectations about their futures. If you ask a class of ninth-graders how many plan to go to college after high school, almost all hands will raise.
There’s good news for high school seniors who need supplemental support to graduate with their 2013 class. There’s just as much good news for individuals who want to re-engage their education and pursue a GED diploma.
As an education financial aid adviser, Kevin Fudge hears a lot of interesting and sometimes very sad stories: Families struggling to help put their kids through college and weighing myriad financial aid options; new students trying to make sense of financial aid documentation that can get so confusing it blurs the definitions of grants and loans are just two examples.
Donald Woods wants to be a documentary filmmaker someday. Although he has film-making equipment, ambition and a growing knowledge base, right now he’d like a car. The 22-year-old student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Greenspun School of Communications uses the bus to get to school from his east valley home, which sometimes can be a challenge, he admits. But online courses are helping him march toward his graduation goal, which should happen in about a year and a half.
Few decisions that parents can make are as nerve-racking as settling on which school their child will attend.
As area school rooms bulge with more and more students and teachers squeeze into fuller classrooms, some parents are opting out of the norm, choosing a well-researched alternative instead.
In one of his campaign speeches, President Barack Obama said, “The single most important thing we can do is make sure we’ve got a world class education system for everybody. That is a prerequisite for prosperity. It is an obligation that we have for the next generation.”
Two months ago, the following paragraph started my weekly Career Coach column that has appeared every Sunday in this newspaper for the past nine years.
Danny Crinson describes himself as “bizarrely motivated” and has the resume to prove it. At 24, the Scotland native already has nearly a decade of work experience under his belt split between the banking and hospitality fields.
Getting accepted to a college or university is one thing, paying for it is another. These days students and families can be particularly wary about the cost of higher education in the wake of a recession that has seen tuition rates rise across the country. Top that off with some of the misconceptions about financial aid, not to mention a fairly detailed application process, and it can all seem like an incredibly daunting process.
Entering college just out of high school, leaving behind a structured life of school, family and friends, can be tough for any young adult, but for those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the challenges can be compounded.
No less than President Barack Obama emphasized the importance of a degree when he told students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas last year that “college education should not be considered a luxury but an economic necessity.” Echoing his thoughts, Gov. Brian Sandoval, in his recent State of the State address, noted that “education is the foundation of economic growth.”
Nevada’s high school graduation rates remain among the lowest in the nation. Preliminary findings released in November by the Education Department put Nevada’s graduation rate at 62 percent for the 2010- 11 academic year. In contrast, Iowa, Vermont and Wisconsin are near 90 percent.
Stroll into Las Vegas history on a tour of the recently opened Neon Museum on Las Vegas Boulevard just north of Bonanza Road.
More than 500 guests helped Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada celebrate the agency’s 72nd anniversary at the Heart of Hope luncheon Feb. 7 in Bellagio’s Grand Ballroom.
My dictionary says tort is “a wrongful act that results in injury to another’s person, property, or reputation, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.”
Most of us when we consider developing a landscape are happy with trees, shrubs and lawns. But not Amy Zeldenrust of Avant Gardener. Her yard has garden art, statues, painted walls, mirrors, bird feeders, a curving pathway and unusual containers she’s picked up over the years. It’s inviting, causes excitement and is pleasing to the eye.
Matt Lewis is shedding his Elvis jumpsuit to work the really sweaty side of the stage, attempting a jump from performer to producer.
It’s not legal for two women to marry each other in Nevada, or two men, for that matter. That didn’t stop dozens of gay and lesbian couples from filling a ballroom at Circus Circus last Sunday to find everything they need to plan their weddings.