Pat Christenson,the man who recruits events to Las Vegas for the LVCVA, said he’s confident that a new on-campus, open-air UNLV stadium of 50,000-60,000 seats would lure six new annual events, including a Pac-12 or Mountain West conference championship football game.
Follow the link for some of the top performances for the week of March 24-29.
Literary highlights this week include a visit by poet Lynn Xu, Pop-Up! Poetry at First Friday and a Clark County Library presentation by veteran Broadway and television actor George Guidall on the art of audiobooks.
In my ever quest for better food, I emailed our food critic Heidi Knapp Rinella with this pressing and important interruption. Here’s our email exchange.
If you lived in the White House, you’d change those things your parents grumble about. And in the new book, “The White House for Kids,” you’ll see what it’s like to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
One of the Palms’ signature night spots is over, done, kaput.
Find fun things to do in and near the Henderson area from Pet-a-Palooza to the opening of the new Horizon Crest Park.
Don’t despair if you can’t get a tee time at Shadow Creek, the exclusive golf course in North Las Vegas. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton couldn’t, either, during one trip to town about six years ago.
Share Your News To submit items for the Henderson/Anthem Neighborhood News, email reporter Michael Lyle at mlyle@viewnews.com.
A man accused of butchering his mother and sister and then living in a home with the decomposing bodies may have used a chainsaw as part of the crime.
Even though Eddie Garcia lost his hands and feet last year after acquiring a flesh-eating bacteria, he said nothing will stop him from living a normal, active life.
The annual charity event at Shadow Creek Golf Club gives fans a close-up look at the celebrities and a chance to get an autograph, or in rare instances, a selfie
LAKE MEAD — High winds have kept many anglers off the water, which in turn has kept many fish in the water. With the forecast calling for light breezes and sunny conditions for the weekend, fishing should improve. Falling water levels have made largemouth and smallmouth bass hard to find. Those anglers who are able to net live shad have reported success for striped bass, though most are weighing about 1.5 pounds. Anglers who are netting gizzard shad are reporting that many are in the 18- to 20-inch range, and some have been catching tilapia that are pushing the 4-pound mark.
A section of U.S. 95 southbound has reopened near the Eastern Avenue exit ramp after a tractor trailer crash disrupted traffic Wednesday afternoon, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
More teachers, assistant principals, deans, buses, school support staff and full-day kindergarten classrooms are planned for Clark County public schools in 2014-15 due to an expected $61 million increase in revenue and the elimination of $7 million in contracts with outside parties producing lackluster results.
Follow the link for the latest baseball coaches poll.
Two U.S. law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press that four people have been killed in a shooting at Fort Hood. The officials said the four dead in Wednesday’s shooting include the shooter.
Follow the link for the latest softball coaches poll.
Spring flowers may be popping up, but temperatures dropped Wednesday as stormy weather moved through the Las Vegas valley.
There’s no fool-proof method to stop terrorism, but certainly there can be heightened intelligence to alert police and security that a terrorist plans to use a sports event to create mass chaos and maim innocent people, an Israeli security expert said at a Las Vegas conference on Wednesday.
The annual ACM awards will celebrate the academy’s 50th anniversary with a one-time move next year to the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium, but the Academy president is already vowing to “drive this back to Vegas.”
An Ohio high school is getting attention for a controversial dress code change.
Red Rock Harley-Davidson will host a pancake breakfast Saturday to raise money for Honor Flight Southern Nevada, a nonprofit organization that plans to fly 55 World War II veterans to see memorials in the Washington, D.C., area near the end of April.
A Florida man didn’t want to go into work on Monday, so naturally, faking a burglary was the best option.
The El Paso Chihuahuas will be marking their territory as the new triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres, and they’ve got a pretty cool logo.
Two California men were indicted by a Las Vegas federal grand jury Wednesday on charges of illegally selling the horns of the endangered black rhinoceros.
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Clark County, alleging pay inequities and employment bias against a black woman who serves as county diversity director because of her race and gender.
A Georgia 911 operator, just hours into her first day on the phones, helped save her father when her aunt called with a medical emergency.
Las Vegas advanced another step on Wednesday in its bid to showcase the Republican Party and itself by hosting the 2016 Republican National Convention.
In honor of Hole getting back together, here’s five more ’90s alt-rock reunions I’d like to see.
