The Las Vegas Valley housing market has been getting a lot of ink in the last few years, and until recently little of it has been positive. The valley was the tip of the spear point for the housing crisis, building up to spectacular highs and dropping just as dramatically. As the valley struggles through recovery, Sunrise and Whitney, with many older and well-established neighborhoods, have their own challenges.
Question: In a past posting on your blog, you mentioned that using 100 percent distilled water for container plant irrigation might mess with the potting soil. What did you mean by that?
Arches National Park, just outside of the town of Moab, Utah, is a feast for the eyes. There are more than 2,000 natural stone arches in the park, the largest density in the world.
One cannot live by coffee alone, and Pinkbox Doughnuts’ answer to this is “have a doughnut.”
A man that I met loves your words, and I was grateful to you to have helped him through the most difficult time of his life.
Kyle Brown, 16, has achieved Eagle Scout status in the Boy Scouts of America.
LOS ANGELES — Padres pitcher Eric Stults hit a three-run homer and stuck around long enough to benefit from a two-run seventh inning as San Diego beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 on Monday night in the first game between the National League West rivals since their wild brawl last week.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
A headline on a Health column in Monday’s newspaper misidentified the defendant in a civil trial resulting from the hepatitis C outbreak in Southern Nevada. The defendant was Health Plan of Nevada.
On Monday, I took a walk-through of MGM’s new Hakkasan nightclub and restaurant, and let me tell you, it’s going to be insanity up in there.
Out-of-state license plates are a major source of irritation for Nevada taxpayers. Just about everyone can tell a story of a neighbor or co-worker who got away with keeping a cheaper plate from another state for months or years before finally registering the vehicle in Nevada.
As a certified gun lover, I can understand the pressure placed on Nevada’s elected officials when it comes to writing legislation aimed at preventing violence.
The drivers’ strike at Yellow Checker Star Transportation, Las Vegas’ second-largest taxi company, slogs into its seventh week after a failed attempt at mediation.
Coronado’s softball team spent the moments before Monday’s game chasing each other around the outfield in a rousing version of the children’s game Duck, Duck, Goose.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Sky Sox, Rob Scahill (2-0); 51s, Chris Schwinden (1-2)
There will be a whole lot more to the instructions Ronda Rousey gives her team on the upcoming season of “The Ultimate Fighter” than proper application of her notorious armbar submission.
It wasn’t likely the best of nights for media outlets to descend on Cashman Field to discuss a proposal to build a new ballpark in Summerlin.
It was to college basketball cheering sections what the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Colossus of Rhodes were to classic antiquity; what Big Bertha was to metal drivers; what Superman’s bare hands were to steel and the course of mighty rivers.
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. — A man and his dog perished in a fire that destroyed a recreational vehicle in 2100 block of Clearwater Drive in Bullhead City, Ariz., shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday. The man and dog were found on the floor of the motor home, which was destroyed.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Audie Farmer, 45, of Kingman, Ariz., was killed when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a pickup towing a horse trailer in the 3200 block of East Andy Devine Avenue at 11 a.m. Saturday.
A Louisiana lawyer plans to appeal his conviction in Las Vegas federal court on fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from a mortgage investment scheme that prosecutors say involved more than 220 properties and upward of $50 million in losses.
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. — Douglas County sheriff’s deputies say they have arrested a 20-year-old Las Vegas man on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed his great-grandfather.
As CEO of William Hill, Joe Asher is in the odds business.
From the World Trade Center and Times Square in New York to the White House and sports venues across the country, police patrolled in packs and deployed counterterrorism teams Monday as security was stepped up after explosions at the Boston Marathon.