For the past 14 years, the Southern Nevada Water Authority has celebrated innovative and water-efficient landscape designs through its Landscape Awards Competition. Homeowners, landscape architects, landscape contractors and the like have earned awards for their efforts to help promote water conservation through designing and creating landscapes that are colorfully spectacular.
It might be spring fever, but there’s something in the air besides pollen and it smells a little like — could it be? — creativity.
Combine technology with adolescent romance and what do you get? If you’re Lindsey Leavitt, fodder for a new novel. In her latest book, “Going Vintage” (Bloomsbury, $16.99), the best-selling Las Vegas-based author explores the intersection of technology and adolescent angst, with a dollop of retro innocence thrown in.
Necole Zeigler’s Wonder Woman boots are made for walking. Which is a good thing, since she pledged to wear them 40 days straight, no matter what. Since April 1, Zeigler , 42, has donned the shiny red, white and blue vinyl boots and gone about her business as though wearing a superhero’s footwear is the most natural thing in the world.
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When Tate Snyder Kimsey was founded in 1960 as George G. Tate & Associates, the architectural firm specialized in designing public schools and government buildings in Nevada.
When the $550 million SugarHouse Casino opened 28 months ago on a Delaware River waterfront site in South Philadelphia, opponents of the project worried that local businesses would suffer.
The shortage of doctors and nurses gets a lot of attention these days.
Her dad was a Las Vegas police officer. Her brother is a Las Vegas police sergeant. Her two nephews are also Las Vegas police officers. Another brother is a police detective in Nebraska.
UNLV shot 12-over-par 300 on Saturday and pulled away to win the Mountain West Women’s Golf Championship at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
IRVING, Texas — Carlota Ciganda shot a 5-under 66 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead over top-ranked Inbee Park and a tour rookie into the final round of the North Texas LPGA Shootout.
Here we go again. Top Rank and Golden Boy tentatively plan to hold pay-per-view fight cards on the same night — Sept. 14 — and it appears the Nevada Athletic Commission will approve both of them.
Teammates and card-playing partners on the 1986 New York Mets title team, 51s manager Wally Backman and Tacoma Rainiers hitting coach Howard Johnson have stayed close friends and went out to dinner together Saturday night in Las Vegas.
CARSON CITY — Former Nevada Capitol Police Chief Tom Navin is suing the Nevada Department of Public Safety, claiming he was wrongfully terminated for failing a physical.
Through the years, Jerry Tarkanian has remained steadfast. Unlike Pete Rose, he did not have to apologize. For anything. All that has changed is how the basketball establishment views him.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — The winter closure of highway access to the north rim of the Grand Canyon is coming to an end on May 15 with the reopening of State Route 67 in northern Arizona.
RENO — A Western-style jacket worn by Clark Gable during filming of “The Misfits” around Reno in 1960 has sold for $6,543 at auction.
The firestorm over alleged patient dumping by Nevada’s mental health system grew last week, as federal officials issued a stern warning about the state’s discharge practices and the city attorney for San Francisco launched an investigation into the matter.
During a special Earth Day event at Lake Mead National Recreation Area Monday, vegetation manager Alice Newton enthusiastically guided visitors around the park’s newly renovated plant nursery.
When Kelvin Atkinson on Monday night unexpectedly told fellow state senators: “I’m 44 years old, I have a daughter, I’m black, I’m gay,” the latter admission was not that much of a jolt to onlookers.
Dennis Walston says he’s sick of living in limbo. The Las Vegas man’s rent is supposed to cover his gas and water service. But in recent years, Walston says, service to his rented condo has been cut off without notice.
Reporters from the Sacramento Bee in California were shocked to discover Nevada’s practice of dumping mentally ill patients in other states.
WASHINGTON — Congress passed legislation last week to fix Federal Aviation Administration furloughs that were disrupting air travel and fueling growing public anger.
NEWARK, N.J. — It took the most physically gifted champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship dominating an obviously overmatched opponent to restore some order to one of the most bizarre UFC events in recent memory.
A man, after getting into an argument with his wife, decided to set some furniture outside their apartment on fire, causing a blaze that led to the evacuation of the apartment complex and injuring a girl early Saturday morning, fire officials said.
