Florida is back in play, but no one really seems to care.
View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everday lives, and View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. To submit a photo, email View copy editor Anne King at aking@viewnews.com or mail to Viewpoints, 1111 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Photos cannot be returned, and due to the high volume, they are often scheduled a month or two in advance.
Sixteen cadets were recognized by the Dean of the Faculty at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for academic prowess during the fall 2013 semester at the Dean’s Aces Dinner Jan. 28. Cadet 2nd Class Andrew Chaves of Las Vegas was one of those honored. Chaves also earned Mountain West Scholar Athlete of the year as a member of the Air Force Academy baseball team. He is a 2011 graduate of Basic High School, where he was co-valedictorian and lettered in football and baseball. He is the son of Frank and Yvonne Chaves of Las Vegas.
A Navy F/A-18C Hornet crashed during a training flight in Northern Nevada Saturday afternoon.
In return for Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada’s donation of a truck, the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas agreed to provide classes for Catholic Charities clients, homeless people trying to get back on their feet.
Some 1 million unique visitors have stopped by Nevada Health Link’s website. But only a little more than 19,000 statewide had enrolled in plans through the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange’s website as of Feb. 22. Officials with the state exchange, and its contractor, Xerox, are working now to understand why.
Death Valley National Park attracts visitors year-round, but springtime brings the greatest number of people.
Dear Savvy Senior: Is there anything that can be done to stop the annoying robocalls my husband and I keep getting? It seems as if we get two or three a day offering lower credit card interest rates, medical alert devices, home alarm systems and more. What can you recommend? — Frustrated Seniors
When I was in kindergarten, Stevie Duffy was my nemesis. I’m astonished, actually, that I still remember his name. And his face. And his voice. But it’s all quite keen in my mind.
Mesquite Club, the oldest women’s club in Nevada, had a benefit luncheon and fashion show Feb. 21 at Spanish Trail Country Club.
It is a Saturday morning at Safe Faith United as Rebeca Ferreira, the director of the nonprofit center on East Sahara Avenue that helps victims of domestic abuse find everything from counseling to money for utility bills, remembers her own introduction to domestic violence more than 25 years ago.
Carlos Molina hopes he can keep the IBF junior middleweight title longer than the man he took it from.
Follow the link for the schedule and results (when available) for the boys basketball state tournaments.
RENO — Deishuan Booker has been an offensive force for Agassi Prep all season, and Saturday was no different.
There’s a kick-boxing card at Planet Hollywood on Saturday night featuring an undercard fight between women making their professional debuts. One is Colleen Schneider of Oakland, Calif. The other is Jennie Nedell from the incorporated village of Lindenhurst, N.Y.
For the past 15 years, Mary Vail has organized a one-day food drive at Smith’s grocery store on Rampart Boulevard, near Lake Mead Boulevard, for the annual Make A Difference Day on the fourth Saturday in October.
As outrage over the rollout of a new Metro Police protocol on responding to noninjury accidents unfolds, at least one of the candidates for Clark County sheriff says he’ll do his best to search for ways to continue the practice of sending a cop to most every fender-bender.
You’re going to hear a lot about voter identification this year. A lot of what you’ll hear isn’t true.
Less than a year ago, the gaming industry used its political clout to crush UNLV’s plans for a new, on-campus, domed stadium because the university didn’t involve Nevada’s largest casino companies in the development. MGM Resorts International was particularly critical of the $900 million project, a partnership with Majestic Reality, saying the vision had “grown too expensive for our community to support” and that the company would back a stadium “that is appropriately configured and responsibly financed.”
If you think the state can put off fixing Southern Nevada’s shameful mental health system, you obviously haven’t visited a valley emergency room in the past month.
The pundit class has less common ground than Congress, so when media experts agree on something, it must be true: Las Vegas is the front-runner to host the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Khem Birch dominated in the paint and UNLV put on a 3-point shooting clinic en route to a 93-67 victory over Air Force at Clune Arena.
RENO — Diontae Jones’ eyes started to water, and Clark’s senior forward did his best to hide his emotions, covering his face with his jersey.
RENO — Boulder City’s girls basketball team fought off a slow start to take a halftime lead over Lowry on Saturday.
RENO — Deishuan Booker has been an offensive force for Agassi Prep all season, and Saturday was no different.