The Springs Preserve recently began phase one of its historic railroad cottage restoration project.
A daylong history seminar titled WWII: From a Largely Nevada Perspective is scheduled April 27 at Nellis Air Force Base. The deadline for registration is April 2.
For years, the Citizens for Active Management of Sunrise & Frenchman Mountain Area has sought to raise interest in the wild country around the mountains on the valley’s east side. Following a change in the area’s status, the group has decided to redouble its efforts to preserve the area.
Read about dining-related events and promotions across the Las Vegas Valley.
Forbuss, Reedom and Wright elementary schools, three of the most overcrowded buildings in the Clark County School District, will go to a 12-month schedule starting in the 2013-14 school year.
Usually at this time of year, sixth-graders in Sara Ohiaeri’s physical education classes would be playing soccer or softball. Instead, for the past few weeks, they have been training for a 5K run.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
The Las Vegas band Imagine Dragons has been touring like crazy since blowing up last year with the acclaimed album “Night Visions” and the hit song “It’s Time.”
■ Doug Elfman’s Monday column on 3A incorrectly identified the television show in which Melissa Gorga is a cast member. The show is “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.”
Nevada’s housing market has been mangled by multiple government interventions. Politicians simply refuse to leave the resulting distortions in prices and inventory alone to correct themselves, leading to another round of interventions, and on and on.
NEW YORK — T-Mobile USA, the struggling No. 4 cellphone company, is ditching plans centered on familiar two-year contracts in favor of selling phones on installment plans.
Officially, Kristina Nelson couldn’t be credited with a perfect game Monday.
San Diego exploded for a five-run seventh inning to rally past the UNLV baseball team for a 6-3 victory Monday at San Diego.
NEW ORLEANS — Even Brian Roberts couldn’t believe the performance he delivered to help end Denver’s 15-game winning streak.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Late in the third quarter, the game was tied and the Miami Heat winning streak seemed in jeopardy.
The 25 minutes Junior dos Santos spent getting pummelled by Cain Velasquez at UFC 155 in December were just the beginning of a brutal stretch for the normally jovial Brazilian.
Two Mexican nationals convicted of producing counterfeit documents and selling phony identification cards have been sentenced to up to five years in prison.
Texas developer Chris Milam’s lenders have agreed to close May 13 on 480 acres of Bureau of Land Management desert property in Henderson that he once earmarked for an arena complex, a BLM spokeswoman said Monday.
A 36-year-old woman went to work and church after repeatedly locking her 4-year-old daughter in an apartment bedroom without food or water, according to a North Las Vegas police report obtained Monday.
The former veteran lawyer who once prosecuted the drug cases of celebrities Paris Hilton and Bruno Mars will be free from prison next month, his lawyer said.
A bill that would provide low-income schoolchildren with food to take home during weekends and holiday vacations has been reintroduced in Congress.
While Las Vegas gasoline prices have dropped slightly in the past month and pumps nationwide reflect a 22-cents-per-gallon drop over this time last year, crude oil climbed to almost $95 a barrel Monday, fueled mainly by financial tensions in Cyprus.
As President Barack Obama turns up his drive for comprehensive immigration reform, the White House today plans to honor a Nevada labor leader and 10 others for their work on the issue.
CARSON CITY — The national gun debate came to the state Legislature on Monday when three measures, including a bill that would allow public school and university system employees with concealed-weapons permits to carry their guns at work, were heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A former controller for the company that developed several high-end properties, including Turnberry Place and Town Square Shopping Center, pleaded guilty Monday in a $5.4 million embezzlement scheme.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the 53-year-old motorcyclist who died Saturday evening in an accident on Nellis Boulevard near Linda Avenue.
A stripper told police she had taken an anxiety pill and drank beer shortly before a deadly Saturday car crash.
A motorcyclist died after colliding with a vehicle on Sunset Road west of Spencer Street about 3:30 a.m. Monday, according to Las Vegas police.