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Brain health awareness growing, but action lacking

A 2024 brain health survey revealed a gap between thinking about brain health and taking steps to reduce risk or slow the progress of memory issues.

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Clinics for seniors open across Southern Nevada

HealthCare Partners will open the last of 23 new senior-focused clinics in Southern Nevada by October in an effort to ease access to geriatric care for the area’s aging population.

Girl Scouts explore STEAM fields at first-ever conference

After 14-year-old Athena attended a summer tech camp last year, she realized that instead of becoming a veterinarian, she wants to pursue a career as an animator.

Vacation home decor

While Las Vegans are surviving another summer of record heat and monsoon rains, others can’t wait to move here. They are shopping for a second home that they will occupy when winter arrives in Montana, Michigan or Minnesota. These “snowbirds” will arrive in the coming months and enjoy a Southern Nevada winter while their neighbors back home are enduring freezing temperatures and snowstorms.

Heat, borers plague landscapes over summer

Two major problems occurred to landscape plants and fruit trees these past few weeks during the summer. First was the heat. They were stressed. High temperatures seemed to linger longer than normal. In addition, minimum nighttime temperatures stayed elevated well into the 90s for more days than I remember in the past.