Getting recognized as one of the best places to work in Las Vegas isn’t just about the benefits, says Fafie Moore, the broker/owner of Realty Executives of Nevada. Moore says her company made the list because of its focus on employees.
It’s a company that may fly under the radar of residents, but when it comes to its Las Vegas employees, it’s THE place to work. Hosts Las Vegas, which handles corporate meeting event planning, earned the top spot among businesses under 150 employees as the best place to work in the valley.
Las Vegas police are looking for information on two suspects who robbed a business near Cheyenne Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard Feb. 1. The two men held an employee at gunpoint about 1 p.m. and demanded money, according to police.
For the second consecutive year, The Container Store, a Dallas-based chain focusing on storage and organization needs that opened May 2012 at Town Square, is ranked No. 2 among small businesses.
Creating a family atmosphere is key to the success of National Title Co. The escrow and title service company handling residential and commercial real estate transactions placed third among small companies as one of the valley’s top workplaces.
Jurors heard from the first two witnesses Monday at the sexual assault trial of Steven Farmer, a certified nursing assistant who is accused of victimizing five patients at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center.
A personable work environment in a boutique office setting has landed Southern Fidelity Mortgage within the top workplaces in Las Vegas.
One way a company becomes a top workplace in Las Vegas is by retaining employees instead of losing them to other firms. That’s one of the goals of Georgia-based AmeriPark, which provides valet services at the Forums Shops at Caesars and the Las Vegas Premium Outlets North.
It was a caffeine-charged Hollywood whodunit: Just whose bright idea was the “Dumb Starbucks” coffee shop that popped up and started serving free drinks from the corner of an otherwise uncelebrated strip mall.
A Mexican national who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a late-night gunfight near the Arizona border in 2010 was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in federal prison.
Clark county prosecutors won a significant victory Monday in their case against Linda Cooney, charged with attempted murder for shooting and paralyzing her son after a fight over his then girlfriend.
Popcorn Girl, Pipeline Pacific, Innova Technologies and Sable Systems are participating in ExporTech and attending three daylong seminars once a month through April to develop a simple, actionable international growth plan.
Blue Bell Ice Cream is opening a 12,000-square-foot distribution facility in North Las Vegas, joining other companies’ centers such as T.J. Maxx, Sysco, Levi Strauss, Beyond the Rack and Zappos in the Southern Nevada area.
Las Vegas police asked for the public’s help Monday in finding a man they believe is involved in a series of open and gross lewdness cases in the southeast valley and Henderson throughout January.
Literary highlights this week include a Las Vegas Romance Writers Conference and a visit by author Leni Zumas, who is scheduled to speak as part of the Black Mountain Institute’s Emerging Writers Series.
The Silver Statesmen Barbershop Chorus plan to offer singing valentines Feb. 14-16. Teams of barbershop quartets hope to fan out over the valley and sing to hundreds of sweethearts.
Bruce Springsteen announces another leg of his tour and skips Las Vegas — again. He’s not alone.
The American subsidiary of Australian slot machine maker Aristocrat Technologies named Rich Schneider as its interim top executive, the company announced Monday.
“I think the interesting thing about the music for (Into the Heights) is that it’s predominantly rapping and hip-hop, which is very different from the traditional musical theater style,” said theater instructor Megan Ahern, who is directing the show at Las Vegas Academy, a public arts magnet high school. “It’s set in present-day Washington Heights (a neighborhood in New York City). It’s very urban-looking and all the dancing is hip-hop and salsa at its base because it’s a Hispanic community. We think it will be fun for the audience, something they haven’t seen before.”
Henderson/Anthem news highlights this week include Gibson Library’s Take Your Child to the Library Day and Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen’s appointment as vice chair of the National League of Cities’ 2014 Finance, Administration and Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee.
More people died on Nevada’s roads in 2013 than previously reported. State Transportation Director Rudy Malfabon said Monday five more people died in crashes than reported in January.
Two changes in the management of El Tiempo were recently announced by Stephens Media LLC, owner of El Tiempo, the Spanish publication of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
New versions of “RoboCop,” “About Last Night” and “Endless Love” open this week, but those are just the tip of the remake iceberg.
Nearly 58 years after glass bottles were released into the Atlantic Ocean, a biologist studying grey seals off Nova Scotia found one of the bottles with a message inside in a pile of debris on a beach.
A Copenhagen Zoo is dealing with intense backlash after it killed a healthy, 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions on Sunday. The zoo maintains it took appropriate actions to prevent inbreeding.
It started off like a traditional mother-son wedding dance, but a Las Vegas mom and her son had something much bigger planned.
Actor Shia LaBeouf hit the Berlin Film Festival in memorable style Sunday, first walking out of a press conference for the film “Nymphomaniac Volume I” and then wearing a paper bag over his head at the red carpet premiere.
You might not be able to get them on TV in Las Vegas, but the D-Backs show some love for their real hometown by donating $600,000 worth of uniforms to Phoenix-area Little Leagues.
The company that operates the Stratosphere and the two Arizona Charlie’s casinos said Monday it expects to reduce its fourth-quarter net loss when the company officially reports results.
Much of the talk about Sochi has turned from the crazy problems visitors have experienced to the athletes themselves. That doesn’t mean crazy things aren’t happening in the Olympic venues, though. Here are five weird things to be aware of from over the weekend.