To say the idea percolating in North Las Vegas to seize mortgages in danger of foreclosure using the city’s power of eminent domain is controversial would be vastly understating the case.
As a new school year starts around the country, December’s atrocity at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., still haunts us. Adam Lanza took the lives of 20 children and six adults, mowing down innocents in a hail of gunfire. The attack was as emotionally devastating as any news event in recent memory.
By now, students and parents all around Southern Nevada have completed one of the back-to-school season’s most recognizable traditions: shopping for school supplies. Equipped with lists provided by their local schools and teachers, students will fill their carts with pens, folders, notebooks and aspirations for a successful school year.
The Review-Journal’s Aug. 18 editorial headlined “Nuclear waste politics” urged Nevadans to have or participate in a conversation on Yucca Mountain. What conversation, with whom, about what? The Department of Energy filed a license application withdrawal to end the project three years ago. The DOE has been clear — the site is unworkable and not an option for a nuclear waste disposal facility.
Craig Neilsen spent parts of three decades building Ameristar Casinos, the majority of which was accomplished after he was rendered a quadriplegic in a 1985 car accident.
My youngest son, Joseph, is 11 years old. And he wants to be a football player.
Soaring cliffs, vividly colored buttes and the beautiful stream that shaped them make Oak Creek Canyon one of the most popular scenic destinations in Arizona. The area has something to offer visitors during every season, but autumn in Oak Creek Canyon is especially appealing.
Red Rock Canyon: On Thursday, join a naturalist for an easy hike to observe some of Red Rock’s wild burros; for ages 15 and older. On Sept. 1, enjoy greenery and look for wildlife on a moderate, 2½-mile hike to a favorite spot where water can be found year-round; for ages 8 and older.
Dear Savvy Senior: Are there any programs that you know of that help seniors with their Medicare expenses? I’m 67 and live primarily on my Social Security, and am having a hard time paying my Medicare premiums, deductibles, co-pays and prescription drug costs. — Need Some Help
While summer vacations may be over, there are still plenty of activities and beautiful places to experience in Cerca country.
Here are a few pop culture tidbits that caught our eye last week.
The character first appeared as a giant head made from smoke and fire, demanding the little girl and her friends kill the Wicked Witch and bring her broomstick to him in return for granting their wishes.
Nate Dooley and his fiancee came to Las Vegas earlier this month for a pre-marriage honeymoon.
After a series of close calls with its helicopters, the Metropolitan Police Department’s top brass ordered an audit last year with the hope of uncovering the problems plaguing the air support section. But seven months into the review, the plug was pulled on the investigation.
A judge has granted permission for owners of the CityCenter development to demolish a flawed, half-built hotel tower on the Strip.
I absolutely believe that within the next 80 or so years, perhaps around the time Bobby Hauck’s great-great-great grandson is arm wrestling elks in Montana, UNLV will navigate through a schedule unscathed. Here’s why it could happen this season.
Maybe someday people will come to Las Vegas not to get married, but to visit local wedding chapels as a sort of “matrimonial tourism.”
Brenda Priddy has been in the automotive espionage business for the past 20 years. She has photographed thousands of vehicles in development, many of them in and around Death Valley.
Hundreds of Las Vegas African-Americans marched to the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, almost 50 years after the civil rights leader gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to tens of thousands of people marching in the nation’s capital.
A chain-link fence separates Forbuss Elementary School from the desert at Las Vegas’ southwest edge. The absence of students wrapped the school in silence. But every teacher was present Wednesday, quietly preparing their classrooms for a whole new kind of school year, which begins Monday.
UNLV’s frontcourt suffered a major loss Saturday with the announcement that sophomore forward Savon Goodman will not play this season.
The man who died after running a red light Thursday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as Royce B. Clark, 80, of Las Vegas.
U.S. intelligence officials sought Saturday to determine whether Syria’s government unleashed a deadly chemical weapons attack on its people. At the same time, the Obama administration prepared for a possible military response by moving naval forces closer to Syria.
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