College of Southern Nevada media technologies professor John Aliano was nominated for an Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Pacific Southwest Chapter for his production of CSN’s 40th anniversary video. The category is Director: Post Production. The Emmy Awards ceremony will be held at 5 p.m. June 15 at Red Rock Resort. More information can be found at www.nataspsw.org/emmy-awards.
The College of Southern Nevada baseball team recently finished up its 2013 season, falling to in-state rival Western Nevada College in the Region 18 Baseball Championship. The Coyotes finished its season with a 40-17 record, the first 40-win season for CSN since 2010.
Getting youth excited about biology is no easy feat. It helps to have an automated pig lung and plenty of quirky professors.
The 2013 Home & Auto Expo is ramping up to become one of Las Vegas’ premier expositions. Appropriately titled, the Home & Auto Expo, this show will combine two show concepts into one exposition at the South Point on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The culture change sweeping through the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is stunning in its swiftness. It’s tragic that it took Stanley Gibson’s death to make it happen.
Too much federal belt-tightening has focused on making the public feel unnecessary pain. Take the Aviation Nation air show at Nellis Air Force Base. The 2012 show attracted 135,000 attendees, making it the largest free-admission public event in the state while generating about $19.2 million in economic activity.
The year 1988 marked both an end point and a new beginning of my academic career. That was the year I completed my medical education at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and began paying off my college loans.
Far too many children in Nevada show up on the first day of kindergarten already behind their peers. Many of them never catch up.
The 2013 Legislature ended the way most sessions do: With an unnecessary, entirely predictable special session to finish the work left undone by the constitutional midnight deadline.
Granite Transformations can update your kitchen and bath with cabinet refacing and new countertops. A full-scale kitchen remodeling, where cabinets are removed and new cabinets installed, can take weeks or months to complete. Compare that with kitchen cabinet refacing.
Pebble Stone Coatings is a decorative coating of river rock pebbles mixed with epoxy. This mixture is then installed over a concrete surface creating a strong epoxy bond.
Ford Fiesta, Focus and the all-new Fusion are global sedans delivering style, strength and safety with driving dynamics that turn casual drivers into enthusiasts.
The San Francisco 49ers obviously struck gold when they picked quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Kaepernick was just as lucky.
Jack Jurek of Lackawanna, N.Y., averaged 236 to take the first-round lead in the Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open at the Suncoast Bowling Center.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Josh Edgin (1-0); Grizzlies, Dan Runzler (1-2)
The costs for airlines to use McCarran International Airport will stabilize in the coming year after several years of a sharp run-up.
Prosecutors in San Bernardino County, Calif., say some local Internet cafes were actually fronts for illegal gambling operations.
The amount Richard Suen will attempt to collect from one-time client Las Vegas Sands Corp. has grown to $102.8 million.
Brett Rather was hurting when he worked out in the gym. He had the bruises from sparring to prove it. When he woke up in the morning, his body ached so much that he struggled to get out of bed. And though he is just 22 and his professional boxing career still was in its infancy, Rather decided to leave the sport.
Isaac Barron routed fellow high school teacher Jared Hardy at the polls Tuesday, collecting more than half the votes cast in North Las Vegas’ Ward 1 and becoming the municipality’s first Latino City Council member.
A quarterly report released Tuesday by the National Credit Union Administration found that federally insured credit unions in Nevada rank at the bottom in a U.S. ranking of asset growth, deposit growth, loan growth and membership growth.
Incumbent Judge Mark Stevens sighed in relief as the vote count swung in his favor.
Clark County will close its Desert Rose Golf Course for more than a year starting Friday to make way for a $50 million flood control project.
Clark County residents could soon be forced to pay an extra 0.15 percent in sales taxes to boost law enforcement and an extra 3 cents per gallon of gas for build new roads.
Nevada Conservatory Theatre’s 2013-14 season covers considerable ground, from Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” to Bertold Brecht’s “Good Person of Szechuan,” from new comedies to longtime favorites such as “A Christmas Carol” and “Grease.”
The fourth annual Vegas Fringe Festival is back at Las Vegas Little Theatre with an eclectic selection of short plays that range from sketches written on a cellphone to a musical. Here are my favorites:
KINGMAN, Ariz. – The man who incurred the wrath of the Hualapai Indian tribe and many tourists by charging a toll to reach the Skywalk Grand Canyon West attraction over the Memorial Holiday weekend was arrested late Tuesday.
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