Kurt Duchac has been growing his own medical marijuana for about three years. He turns to his small garden of plants daily to heal the chronic pain in his back brought on by working decades as an auto mechanic.
Laughlin is the sort of place that attracts guys like Chuck Gilmore. The 71-year-old retired high school business teacher bought a vacation home here 23 years ago and spends his days buzzing around the Colorado River on personal watercraft.
If you tune into today’s Confederations Cup final on ESPN — and there’s a chance you might, with the basketball and hockey seasons finally having ended, the top seeds at Wimbledon getting bounced by the 116th seeds, and these interleague baseball games having become tedious — you will notice that one of the soccer teams is wearing jerseys with funky nicknames on back.
School is out and summer break is in full swing, but with temperatures expected to hit 117 degrees this week— and possibly exceed it— it’s doubtful many kids will be playing outside.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force could not have been more right when it issued this statement after last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas: “Learning with people from different backgrounds and perspectives benefits all students, our workforce and our nation.”
National Employee Freedom Week wrapped up Saturday. What just a year ago was a modest local effort has extended nationwide, thanks to the Nevada Policy Research Institute.
At the intersection of immigration, tax, economic development and education policy is Nevada’s most important issue: English Language Learning in the Clark County School District.
The Great Recession provided many enduring lessons for local governments. Foremost among them: Long-term contracts that provide guaranteed annual pay raises to employees are a bad deal for taxpayers.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has always benefitted by comparisons to his predecessor.
There’s an unwritten rule that only kids younger than 12 seem to follow: Immediately after purchasing ice cream, you must hold onto it tight and run as fast as you can.
Guests saw the Las Vegas Natural History Museum in a whole new light during the second annual Sundown in Downtown on June 21.
Once again, vegetables seemed to be on gardeners’ minds as well as an unusual insect living in the ground.
Bellagio President Randy Morton credits “Ocean’s Eleven” with making the hotel’s dancing fountains the nation’s top tourist attraction.
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2010. My son is 8, and in the second grade. I am driving him to school. He is in the back seat, lost in his Nintendo DS game device. Suddenly a long-suffering sigh wafts up into the front seat. Then the voice so quiet, so innocent, so sincere and thoughtful: “This is all messed up.”
Here are a few things in pop culture that caught our eye last week.
The locals gaming market has suffered enough. Gaming revenues produced by casinos in North Las Vegas, along the Boulder Strip, in Henderson and throughout unincorporated Clark County are down a collective 2.6 percent through April.
Summer comes to Cerca country with Fourth of July celebrations and plenty of activities at higher elevations where it is cooler.
Local boxers Devin Haney and Andres Cortes won silver medals at Saturday’s Junior Olympic National Championships in Mobile, Ala.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Jacob deGrom (1-0); Rainiers, Erasmo Ramirez (2-3)
Today’s best bet: BALTIMORE ORIOLES (-115) over New York Yankees
The loudest roar during the One Drop High Rollers tournament Saturday came five minutes in when Antonio Esfandiari was eliminated.
Add another boxing hall of fame to the list. This one is located at the Luxor.
Evan wrote in noting that there was supposed to be a traffic light installed by now at the intersection of Decatur Boulevard and Elkhorn Road, way out north.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Mystery deepens: Monolith outside Vegas may have been in desert for years
Las Vegas teen killed in minibike crash had 10 times legal limit for pot, report says