Relatively few studies have looked at how many older adults with mild cognitive impairment or dementia continue to drive.
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Hiking options may be limited, but Mount Charleston’s network of still-open trails offers plenty of picturesque views and potential discoveries.
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.
The State Department is testing a system that would let you renew your passport online — but only if you qualify.
Members of the Henderson Fire Department demonstrated how they respond to a 911 call about a child trapped in a hot car.
Iron shortages in plants are notorious for yellow foliage. Try applying an iron chelate to the soil when growth is first starting.
Planting seeds during the heat requires that you visit your raised bed and check your seed (and new seedlings) at least twice a day — early morning and late afternoon. No need to keep the soil wet and soggy, but the seed should be swollen with water.
Tree roots are lazy. They grow best where water is easiest to get. And tree roots absolutely love fertilizer.
Gardeners can remove small amounts from trees and shrubs any time during the year, but this is the time of year when you can take large amounts of wood from trees, shrubs and plants.
Without flowering it’s impossible for a fruit tree to produce fruit. If the tree flowered in previous years but not this year, then it is either something you did that contributed to its lack of flowering or something inherent to those varieties of fruit trees.
Roses do not need daily watering, even during the hottest days. If the soil was prepared correctly at planting time and the soil surface covered in wood chips, they should get watered — at the most during the hottest times — every other day.
An infrequent desert rain is not a problem. But when irrigation water is applied over and over to a soil that is normally dry, these soils shift, collapse and chemically change. In urban landscapes, this can be potentially destructive.
If rabbits ate the trunk of a tree in a complete circle around the trunk, it’s a goner. Let it sucker from the bottom and start a new tree from the suckers.
Q: Around town and in my neighborhood, many midlife trees are dying. In beautiful large trees, there are dead branches and sometimes just a fully dead tree. Some trees are planted in gravel and some in a yard. Do you notice that also?
Q: If I prune my old oleanders this fall, will they bloom this coming spring?
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Members of the Henderson Fire Department demonstrated how they respond to a 911 call about a child trapped in a hot car.
Many Las Vegas Valley gyms had exceptions that allowed them to operate pools without lifeguards. The Southern Nevada Health District is ending those exceptions.
Atomic Golf customers had called its bays “stifling.” The off-Strip facility said it has fixed its system and is offering guests other ways to stay cool.
The study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that Nevada ranks low in a number of child well-being indicators.