Ultimate Fighting Championship, the Las Vegas-based combat sport juggernaut, has launched a bold TV initiative in Latin America and Mexico with a joint-venture deal with Televisa Networks to air UFC programming in 20 Spanish-speaking countries while also launching a subscription UFC TV channel.
Before the embattled Craig Ranch Regional Park became a $130 million headache for North Las Vegas City Council members, the site served as home to the city’s most popular golf course.
North Las Vegas City Council members looked to pare down city spending last month, signing off on a sparse budget meant to offset the $19 million shortfall expected in fiscal year 2014.
A house fire in Laughlin caused an estimated $1.4 million in damage early Friday morning, according to the Clark County Fire Department.
Gov. Brian Sandoval issued his first veto of the legislative session Friday, vetoing a bill that would have allowed courts to grant special awards to injured workers.
A high-profile prostitution scandal featuring sex videos, adultery, exhibitionism and more than 100 clients drew to a close Friday when a Zumba fitness instructor was sentenced to 10 months in jail after telling the judge she was happy to have escaped her former life of crime.
UNLV civil engineering students will put their project for the UNLV Senior Design Competition to real-life use this summer when they help villagers in Moshi, Tanzania, get clean water to their homes from a spring near the base of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Ries Elementary School, 9805 S. Lindell Road, opened in 2005 and is named for Iowa native Aldeane Ries. She came to Las Vegas from Iowa as a joke with one of her sorority sisters but fell in love with the place and never left.
Question: I found this “thing” under my Joshua tree this morning. It is about 6 inches long. Is it mold? I only water three times a week for five minutes.
There it was: the highway sign, flashing urgently. High wind on the Hoover Dam Bypass bridge. Use caution. Ordinarily no big deal, but today we were headed to Boulder City to play a round of golf at Boulder City Golf Course.
Juliana and Lindsey Remark, 18, have received the Barbara Malloy Memorial Leadership Service Award from Soroptimist International of Greater Las Vegas.
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Peggy Selma plans to retire as principal of the 100 Academy of Excellence in North Las Vegas after the 2013-14 school year, and parents say she is leaving the place in better shape than she found it.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed into law Friday morning a bill that allows people in the country illegally to legally drive in Nevada starting in January.
Shea Homes at Ardiente, an age-qualified, resort-style community in North Las Vegas, provides an array of home models.
New homebuyers often look for amenities in homes and neighborhoods that include cozy comforts and convenient, family-friendly activities in the area.
Ruthe Deskin was at the forefront of women and children’s issues in Southern Nevada. She died in 2004 at the age of 88, and the elementary school at 4550 N. Pioneer Way was named for her.
Q: With home prices going up again in Las Vegas, I’m wondering if it’s better to rent or buy right now. What do you think?
Pardee Homes’ LivingSmart Homes Sandstone will celebrate its grand opening June 8.
Editor’s note: Listings include the resale home’s parcel number. Occasionally, the address listed is the homebuyer’s mailing address and not the actual location of the home. Check the parcel number to make sure. Also, a few transactions do not reflect the market value of the homes.
It is imperative that all homeowners, home association board members and community managers tell their state legislators that Senate Bill 280, with Amendment 777, should be killed. This amended bill supports the banks, but not the nonprofit association of homeowners who pay their assessments. This bill, if passed, would greatly impact your 2014 operating budget. Your HOA board will have no choice but to increase your monthly assessments.
Hagen Anderson, 18, of Summerlin is one of nine national finalists in Lucerne Dairy’s annual Art of Dairy art contest. The Northwest Career and Tech student created an imaginary world made of up Lucerne products on a cow-shaped template, which was displayed at a local Vons.
The Dinosaurs & Roses Resale Shoppe has a new home. Michele Morgan-Devore, executive director, has moved her nonprofit in with Qury Edmond’s New 2 U thrift store in West Las Vegas. Combined, they are now called New 2 U featuring Dinosaurs and Roses.
Jobs for America’s Graduates, or JAG, a pilot program at four high schools in the Clark County School District, is helping to put juniors and seniors who were unlikely to graduate back on the right path. The program encourages student to find work during and after high school.
Thieves in Elko are taking an especially destructive route to stealing residents’ gas — drilling holes in the gas tanks.
