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The black hole encountered by online job seekers is now common to more proactive applicants. This trend toward employer unresponsiveness won’t likely diminish soon and is particularly unnerving for people who are job hunting highly selectively.
Pahrump is looking to expand its tourism outreach efforts.
After finishing their three-state holiday in the southwest, Melanie Luques and husband Stephen Mallison thought they had done everything right to get home as scheduled on Jan. 3.
The Josh Harris-controlled Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils have signed a multiyear marketing agreement with partypoker, becoming the first major U.S.-based professional sports teams to align themselves with online gambling.
Changes are afoot at the Hughes Center months after it landed new owners.
As a private banker, Lee Pullan works with many high-net-worth individuals. Day to day, he manages existing clients, works on new credit requests and develops business across a product line that includes deposits, credits and investments.
WASHINGTON — The weakest month of hiring in three years ended 2013 on a sluggish note and raised questions about whether the U.S. job market can sustain its recent strong gains.
Read about news and events happening in the Summerlin/Summerlin South area.
Zachary Mahoney has achieved Eagle Scout status in the Boy Scouts of America.
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in his memoir being published next week, recalled that U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D.-Nev, in 2008 felt him out about possibly running for vice president alongside presidential candidate Barack Obama.
My college economics professor used to tell this dumb joke: What does a guy have to do to be called an economist? Answer: Simple — he can just call himself an economist, because anyone can. Ha? No, it’s not funny, but it’s true. The world of DJ-producers is similar.
When someone is in therapy, should the therapist have an agenda or a curriculum after determining what the patient’s issue is/issues are? It seems that talking about what’s on the patient’s mind each week will only lead to a bunch of disjointed sessions and won’t lead to resolution of the underlying issue. Who should be in the driver’s seat during therapy? Who should determine the direction of the discussion? The patient or the therapist?
If there is anyone out there who still thinks Sen. Harry Reid isn’t battier than a pet raccoon, then allow me to point out a Reid reference in former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ new book that would argue the point.
Attorney General Eric Holder is recognizing the marriages of more than 1,000 same-sex couples in Utah that took place before the Supreme Court put those unions on hold.
When Las Vegas police arrested Roddregus Hampton in August at Bellagio, a detective found hotel room keys from five Strip resorts in his pocket.
Target said Friday that personal information — including phone numbers and email and mailing addresses — was stolen from as many as 70 million customers in its pre-Christmas data breach. That was substantially more customers than Target had previously said were affected.
Reasonable people can agree to disagree on the politics of the day.
Las Vegas police have located a 60-year-old woman who was reported missing Thursday morning.
Las Vegas police have located a 16-year-old girl who went missing Thursday afternoon.
The city of Henderson has merged its Parks and Recreation Department with its Public Works Department, eliminating the job of parks Director Mary Ellen Donner.
State officials and business leaders have jetted off to several countries, including South Korea, Israel and Brazil, on the hunt for potential job-creating investment in Nevada.
The actor who portrays Austin “Chumlee” Russell of “Pawn Stars” sounds like he was born for the role.
A Thursday report from California research firm RealtyTrac found that 38 percent of homeowners with mortgages in Nevada owed more on their home than the property was worth in December.
■ LAKE MEAD — Threadfin and gizzard shad have been hanging in the back of the Vegas Wash, which is where striped bass also can be found. When throwing live bait, larger shad have been igniting quicker responses from the stripers. Anglers also have been working Spinnows or various shad imitations and jig heads. Mid-morning and into the afternoon has been productive.
The “Kung Fu Panda” of movie fame has his animated tiger and monkey allies. But when the “Panda!” of a new stage show gets picked on, he calls in real-live Shaolin kung fu fighters; one of them only 7 years old.