Seventeen meteorologists at the Las Vegas weather forecast office keep an eye on conditions of nearly 70,000 square miles of southwest land. While their gadgets may look straight out of an exaggerated science fiction movie, your favorite weather app wouldn’t work without them.
Last week I gave my first State of the District address as Clark County superintendent. We unveiled our new action plan for the district, called the “Pledge of Achievement.”
The Nathan Adelson Hospice’s “Celebration of Life” butterfly release took place at UNLV on Sunday.
UNLV had a season-high 21 hits to beat New Mexico 14-2 on Sunday and sweep the three-game series at Wilson Stadium. The Rebels had 55 hits for the series.
“Never Again,” agreed the audience, nodding assertively to the words of Rabbi Felipe Goodman.
Yahoo Shine has the story of a 10-year-old boy battling an inoperable brain tumor who has raised $150,000 for charity.
A man involved in a domestic violence call crashed his vehicle into a KFC sign in northeast Las Vegas Sunday night.
As she finished the hot dog and Baby Ruth bar she was eating inside the convenience store, the rotund young mother made breakfast for her two little ones.
Author brings panel discussion on veterans, PBS documentary to Las Vegas
A state official says the death toll from a tornado that tore through central Arkansas has grown to four people.
Assemblywoman Lucy Flores, a Las Vegas Democrat running for lieutenant governor, finally said flat out that she opposes a proposed 2 percent margins tax on business because “it can have negative effects on our jobs.”
A while ago I got a good idea from a reader about a bells versus bells column. He was referring to kettlebells versus dumbbells and which is better.
The doctor has beaten the odds and survived Ebola, but he still has one more problem: The stigma carried by the deadly disease.
Renee Fleming, sometimes called “the people’s diva,” makes her (public) Las Vegas debut Thursday at The Smith Center with “Guilty Pleasures,” a selection of favorites ranging from opera to Broadway.
Adam Silver’s first crisis of his short tenure as NBA commissioner has arrived, a race-tinged scandal leaving those associated with the game wondering how strongly and swiftly the league will respond.
Smaller hotels like Rumor and Artisan allow companies to revamp entire properties to fit their needs. “We pretty much have a ‘don’t say no’ mentality,” said Michael Crandall, senior vice president at The Siegel Group. “We say yes to pretty much anything that’s within our means.”
Sexual innuendo is high as Las Vegas Little Theatre presents its 2014 New Works Competition Winner “Little Black Book” by Thomas J. Misuraca in their Fischer Black Box. In its firstever production, the show is a keenly hilarious, often bawdy, dramedy.
The Rainbow Company Youth Theatre production of “Ozma of Oz: A Tale of Time,” a stage adaption of the third Oz novel by L. Frank Baum opens on a minimalist set that consists of a stack of rainbow-colored suitcases, a wardrobe shaped box, a bucket and mop and chains hanging from the risers. A child seated behind me asked, “What is the bucket for? What are the chains for?” The child’s father answered wisely, “I don’t know, but we’ll find out.”
The final concert of the 2013–14 Masterworks season bore the theme “Love Around the World,” for reasons best known only to those who chose the theme, since the scope of the music performed was limited to Mexico and Spain, with a touch of ancient Persia and Russia thrown in. But that is quibbling, since many members of Saturday’s large audience headed home with smiles and the clear impression that the season’s best effort had been saved for last.
Scripts for “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ camera and a cigar ashtray were among the late director’s belongings sold at a New York auction.
To put it nicely, some children are not exactly morning birds.
One demographic group in particular was underrepresented in the final state health insurance exchange sign-up tally: Hispanics made up 17.8 percent of enrollment in private, qualified health plans through Nevada Health Link, the online marketplace through which consumers can buy insurance to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s coverage mandates.
Joan Rivers refuses to apologize for comparing living in her daughter’s guest room with the captivity of three women kidnapped in Cleveland.
Brent Leavitt, an insurance broker with Nevada Benefits in Las Vegas, has signed up more enrollees through the state exchange than any other agent. With 305 enrollees through March 31, Leavitt had nearly 0.7 percent of the exchange’s 42,000 plan selections all to himself — not bad when you realize 1,500 other brokers registered to sell exchange policies.
The heavyweight contender who trains in Las Vegas is looking to become WBC champion with an encore performance against Chris Arreola when they meet May 10 at USC’s Galen Center on ESPN.
The news spurred hundreds of phone calls and emails to Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada from across the country: Two Stage 4 cancer patients at the Las Vegas center, after participating in the first human trial of an antibody drug with the unwieldy code name of MPDL 3280A, were now cancer-free.
If there’s one more thing we know about rancher Cliven Bundy, it’s that he doesn’t know two things about “the Negro.”
Saying the original title of “The Hobbit” finale, “There and Back Again,” felt misplaced, director Peter Jackson has renamed it “Battle of the Five Armies.”
The road is calling George Wallace again, even if home is already a hotel.
