A month after St. Patrick’s Day, expect to spot plenty of smiling Irish eyes around Tule Springs for the Las Vegas Celtic Society’s yearly Celtic Gathering and Highland Games weekend.
Read about news and events happening in the Summerlin and Summerlin South areas.
Michael Phelps would be in awe to see the more than 400 medals won by Sun City Summerlin resident Freddy Leipziger over the years. And Leipziger, 85, earned them swimming competitively in six countries.
Stretch those Achilles tendons, pump up those tires and mark your calendar for Saturday. That’s when the Tour de Summerlin is set to be held to benefit the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Nevada.
The Clark County Children’s Festival has become one of the perennial favorites, drawing children from across the valley to enjoy live performances, carnival rides and much more.
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.