News highlights this week include Logical Positions’ recent expansion, a Neighborhood Connection meeting for Ward 1 residents and a new DownEast Home & Clothing store opening.
Find fun things to do in and near the Henderson area. Highlights this week include a reception to honor a new batch of artists displaying work in the Henderson City Hall Gallery, a free event featuring the Budweiser Clydesdales, and a performance of “An Afternoon Affair” variety show.
Computer programming competitions known as “hackathons” have spread like viruses in recent years as ways for geeks, nerds and designers to get together to eat pizza, lose sleep and create something new.
With thousands of posters and movie memorabilia overflowing from his collection, Buddy Barnett knew he had more than enough merchandise to open a store. Now nearly 20 years later, business is dwindling, causing him to close his store.
American skier Bode Miller is responding to criticism of an NBC post-race interview by saying it was a “crazy emotional moment.”
Scientists have solved the mystery of the “jelly doughnut” rock on Mars that appeared to come out of nowhere. NASA said Friday that a wheel of the rover Opportunity broke it off a larger rock and then kicked it into the field of view.
A Pennsylvania admitted in a jailhouse interview that she killed a man she and her newlywed husband met through Craigslist and said she has killed more than 20 other people across the country.
When Andy Jackson began working as an electrical contractor in 1986, electric vehicles weren’t yet part of the game. But now that they are, he’s taking advantage.
The California Highway Patrol says two officers have been killed in an early morning accident in Fresno County. The officers were killed while responding to a multi-vehicle accident on Highway 99 in the Central Valley town of Kingsburg at around 6 a.m. Monday.
Las Vegas would like you to know all is forgiven — at least, unofficially.
“Using The IRS For Political Oppression” was the headline on my Sunday newspaper column.
Devin Brooks is three years out of college and already commands an audience with the governor. Last month, the 27-year-old North Las Vegas native marched into Gov. Brian Sandoval’s office alone, on short notice, to talk about Medicaid.
More test-tube babies were born in the United States in 2012 than ever before, and they constituted a higher percentage of total births than at any time since the technology was introduced in the 1980s, according to a report released on Monday.
Locking the pilot out of the cockpit, an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked a plane bound for Italy on Monday and diverted it to Geneva, where he asked for asylum, officials said.
The Las Vegas man who died after running a red light eary Sunday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A new poll finds that tea partyers and liberals — together, about half of Americans — are significantly more likely to oppose the collection of millions of ordinary citizens’ telephone and Internet data than more moderate Democrats and Republicans.
Clark County plans to spend $33.4 million on parks projects ranging from a new Siegfried and Roy Park named after the retired entertainers to low-profile projects such as landscaping upgrades.
A man died Sunday morning while trying to assist a car accident on Needles Highway near Laughlin, Las Vegas police said Monday.
It was March 2011, and the Lady Rebels had just beaten Utah in their regular-season finale. Three days later, they would play Utah again, in the first round of the Mountain West Tournament.
The broad variety of homes available in Summerlin make it easy to find one to fall in love with. Chris Stacey had already fallen in love with and purchased two Summerlin homes by the time he met Celena Haas at a friend’s Summerlin home in 2005. In 2011, they purchased a home together in Summerlin’s Serrano neighborhood in The Paseos. It was the perfect fit for the now married couple, who wanted extra space for their two dogs.
For nearly two decades, a 3-mile long dry lake bed southwest of downtown Boulder City has attracted thousands of campers and revelers over the Fourth of July weekend. But not anymore.
A snake-handling pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation” has died after being bitten by a snake during a weekend church service in Kentucky.
That melodic voice heard during song breaks on Highway Radio, the main source of broadcast music for millions of area commuters, belongs to Las Vegan Jodie Rocco.
When Jeffrey Burr decided to start his own law firm in 1983, he knew it would be a risk to specialize in only one area because most lawyers at the time were generalists.
MIG Real Estate hasn’t snapped the wallet shut on its local commercial real estate shopping spree.
The publicity gusher about cabdriver Gerardo Gamboa returning $300,000 in cash that a passenger left in his cab was too high for employer Yellow Checker Star to quantify. Instead, Bill Shranko, the company’s chief operating officer, collected a sampling of about 200 stories from more than 40 countries.
Nevada small businesses added jobs in January.
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