Literary events this week include a presentation by Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 2013 inductee Richard O. Davies.
Of all the ways to measure the health of Keola Paragas’ pitching arm, the number six does it best. As in, six starts this season for the Green Valley baseball team.
Angela Thornton is slated to take over as the executive director of Henderson Libraries May 20. Thornton comes from the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library in Oklahoma City.
Follow the link for some of the top performances from the past two weeks.
As a noisy livestock dispute unfolded in northeastern Clark County, someone with a shovel decided to disturb the peace of one of Gold Butte’s most restful residents. For more than 50 years, the grave of Arthur Coleman sat undisturbed at the long-abandoned Gold Butte town site. But sometime in the past week or weeks, Coleman’s final resting place was dug up, leaving a deep hole surrounded by pieces of wood and other debris.
A small town in southwest Wyoming has been evacuated after an explosion and fire at a natural gas pipeline hub.
Find fun things to do in and near the Henderson area from a free concert by the Myron Heaton Chorale to a Nashville Unplugged visit from guest songwriter Marc Beeson.
Las Vegas police asked the public for assistance Wednesday in identifying possible victims of Jonathan Thyron Thompson, 30, who was arrested and faces two counts of luring of a child with sexual intent.
Sports have the power to teach high school athletes several different things.
The 2014 NFL season will kick off Sept. 4 in Seattle, where the Super Bowl champion Seahawks will be honored before the boisterous 12th Man in the regular-season opener against the Green Bay Packers. A full schedule for the upcoming season was announced by the league on Wednesday.
Follow the link for the latest baseball coaches poll.
Nye County Assistant Sheriff Rick Marshall remained on the job and in charge of the rural police department Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was arrested by one of his own deputies.
Follow the link for the latest softball coaches poll.
The FBI asked for the public’s help Wednesday in finding a man involved in a Saturday morning bank robbery near Cheyenne Avenue and Jones Boulevard.
Through 19 games, former Bonanza High star and top Chicago Cubs prospect is hitting .303 with 4 homers and 10 RBIs.
Recent lawsuits in Nevada accuse Circle K Stores Inc. and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of misclassifying employees to avoid paying overtime wages.
Who knows how successful the ad campaign for a new Ubisoft game “Watch Dogs” will be, but man, is it creepy.
Beacon Academy of Nevada, the charter school dedicated to serving at-risk high school students, will plead its case for continued certification before the State Public Charter School Authority Board at 9 a.m. Friday at the Grant Sawyer Building.
For sculptor Dorit Schwartz, her art is all about an appreciation for the organic beauty found in nature. The Summerlin resident’s work will be part of the 30th anniversary of the Mission Federal ArtWalk, scheduled for April 26 and 27 in San Diego, and featured at the St. Jude black tie benefit set for May 3 at The Smith Center.
In a relay race starting Thursday, a baton with name of Search and rescue officer David VanBuskirk, who fell to his death nine months ago, will pass through 126 pairs of hands over nearly 450 miles to a law enforcement memorial in Carson City.
When Linda Campbell moved to Las Vegas from Los Angeles last fall, she was unaware that the Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association was looking for artists for its first residency program. Her husband saw the flier and urged her to look into it. Of 20 entrants, she was one of three selected.
Pursuit of a wanted man led to a fatal traffic accident in Kingman Tuesday.
The company behind the nation’s first utility-scale solar power plant on tribal land will hold a job fair today to hire some of the workers needed to build and operate the facility 40 miles north of Las Vegas.
Union employees at the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority objected Thursday to the payment of nearly $1 million in legal fees, while the attorney blamed the union for driving his fees up.
Sales of new homes unexpectedly plunged in March to the lowest level in eight months, reflecting a broad-based retreat that signals the industry is facing bigger challenges than just bad weather.
The UNLV women’s tennis team opened the Mountain West championship tournament with a 4-1 victory over Air Force on Wednesday in Fresno, Calif.
Amazon.com’s streaming video service will offer some older shows from premium-cable channel HBO starting next month, a deal that intensifies both companies’ competition with subscription-video service Netflix.
After years of being a cyclist, Sandy VanDerPuy was looking to join a group to accompany on longer bicycle rides. She instead created the Green Valley Cyclists in 2004.
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