St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, 100 St. Jude’s St. in Boulder City, runs the Recycled Card Program that teaches teens entrepreneurial and small-business skills.
Dear Savvy Senior: What tips or products can you recommend to help make a home safer and more convenient for aging in place? My husband and I are in our 70s and don’t have the money for any big renovations, but we want to do what we can to stay in our house as long as possible. — Homebodies
It’s been a good seven days for UNLV football, with the long-beleaguered program getting its first bowl bid in 13 years and finally seeing some momentum for a new on-campus stadium. As the Review-Journal’s Alan Snel reported, the Rebels were one of the focal points of Thursday’s stadium authority board meeting, where consultant Mark Rosentraub outlined several potential benefits for the team.
Due diligence is a must in hiring. Putting a potential criminal in contact with customers can have disastrous consequences — especially if great public trust is placed in the position.
Certainty belongs only to youth. My two children are teenagers now, at an age where they are starting to have doubts about the bigger questions in life, but it was just a few short years ago that my daughter, Lily, would say: “I’m positive, Dad. It’s a one hundred percent sure thing.”
Twinkling lights, ornament-strewn trees and bustling campgrounds. Those are signs of the Christmas season in this Kentucky town, where the Amazon.com distribution center recruits an armada of RV owners as seasonal workers to help fill holiday orders.
UNLV’s football team is going strong after defensive ends, welcoming four this weekend in a group of six recruits.
Don Laughlin’s willingness to venture outside Las Vegas to open up a casino paid off in more than profits.
Advocacy groups for polygamy and individual liberties are hailing a federal judge’s ruling that key parts of Utah’s polygamy laws are unconstitutional.
A student who walked into his suburban Denver high school with a shotgun looking for a specific teacher was a skilled debater with strong political views who recently was kicked off the speech and debate team, according to students and a teacher.
On Detroit’s Heidelberg Street, where a local artist turned the shell of a crime-ridden neighborhood into an interactive public art project, visitors coming to see offbeat display are noticing something that’s not part of the quirky exhibition: Yellow fire tape.
Friends of Henderson Libraries presented their annual Library Tree Lane gala and reception recently at Paseo Verde Library.
A treasury of artifacts from ancient Native American cultures awaits visitors to the Lost City Museum in Overton.
Greg Barnaby has spent the last five weeks repainting statues at Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church, 315 S. Casino Center Boulevard.
As incredible as the news coming out of Newtown was a year ago, as wrenching as the images of frightened children and grieving relatives were, delicate expressions of support and hope also emerged.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. canceled plans for a $30 billion resort and gaming complex in Madrid Friday, saying the so-called EuroVegas development was no longer in the best interests of the company’s shareholders.
When fights end in a draw, social media typically turns angry with every fan who’s ever signed up for Twitter or Facebook using the platforms to bash whichever guy they think lost, the judges and the entire system.
When the Ultimate Fighting Championship first put on an event in Sacramento, Calif., a 22-year-old Joseph Benavidez was watching with friends from the cheap seats.
Nine companies from across the U.S. have submitted bids in hopes of winning the job of project manager for a UNLV panel charged with evaluating the need, size, cost and funding of a proposed on-campus sports and entertainment venue.
The one-week reprieve for the unfinished Harmon Hotel has stretched into at least two.
The desert tortoise might be Nevada’s official state reptile, but if you’re lucky enough to spot one in a rare departure from its burrow, don’t touch. In fact, don’t bother it in any way, disturb its path or its burrow. The law forbids anything but watching it from a safe distance. That goes for dead tortoises, too.
In the offseason, when plans are formed and promises made, coach Dave Rice presented a vision of UNLV attacking with full-court pressure defense and running opponents ragged in offensive transition.
A Henderson family was displaced by a garage fire that caused about $90,000 in damage Friday night.
Mark Twain might have burned down a forest at Lake Tahoe, but the Nevada Sesquicentennial Commission has high hopes to name a cove “Clemens Cove” anyway.