One of the unique venues that Las Vegas has to offer is offering Silver State residents free admission to celebrate its 12th anniversary.
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Business owner Ruby Romero sits down with the Review-Journal to discuss art, culture and what influenced her personal style.
The new Storytelling Garden will offer a place to gather and share stories near the Healing Garden.
Eddie Schmitz and Sue Ann Cornwell work daily to preserve and develop the downtown memorial to Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victims.
The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum rolled out a wave of limited edition bobbleheads that included Vegas Vic, the 40-foot-tall, cigarette-smoking cowboy neon sign that has greeted downtown Las Vegas visitors for more than 60 years.
Q: I found 50 to 100 red and black beetles running around the rocks in my yard while I was pulling weeds. If these numbers are representative, I must have thousands. A friend thinks they may be boxelder bugs, but I don’t have any boxelder trees in my yard. The pictures of boxelder bugs online are similar but do not look exactly like these. So what are they and should I declare war on them and begin spraying?
According to the State Mental Health Agency, in 2013, Nevada spent about $89 on mental health services per capita — a 13 percent increase from 2007, when it was about $79 per capita. On average, the U.S. spends $119 per capita on services, including $160 per capita in California and $205 in Arizona.
Some people enjoy their work so much, they’d do it even if they didn’t get paid. Summerlin-area resident Karan Feder is one such person.
The National Atomic Testing Museum is unusual in that many of its docents are former workers from the Nevada Test Site, now named the Nevada National Security Site.
Fireworks are on sale through July 4 in temporary venues on many corners in the valley. Others enter the valley illegally, purchased in states or communities with less stringent fireworks regulations.
Maybe it was too far away; maybe my schedule was too busy. Probably it was the fact that my golf swing is already close to perfect. Whatever, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been to the Callaway Golf Experience on Las Vegas Boulevard South. A lot has transpired. It’s now the TaylorMade Golf Experience. In November 2013, the owners and brothers, John and Ron Boreta, didn’t renew their agreement with Callaway Golf, which cleared the way for the relationship with TaylorMade.
Health, Healing & Happiness, a health and wellness event planned for June 12-14, began four years ago. About 150 people attended the event at the Springs Preserve. The event has grown steadily, and for the fourth event, organizer Ina Mohan hopes to have around 1,000 attendees, which has necessitated a move to the Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Road.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
The new year brings with it new opportunities to make lifestyle adjustments. While many individuals pursue physical fitness, some turn to alternative healing methods to keep a healthy mind and spirit.
Longtime Southern Nevadans who love the Mojave Desert nevertheless often develop a desire to explore other arid landscapes. Typically, they dream of the Sonoran Desert, whose scenery may have inspired them to live in the Southwest. An excellent place to fulfill that desire is in and around Tucson, Ariz. There are dozens of places to take in the flora and fauna, but two places stand out: Saguaro National Park and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, which has one of the world’s best zoos.
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The Coalition of Independent Nevadans (COIN) was formed as a political action committee to create political awareness, education, and organization and to provide nonpartisan voters with a neutral platform to engage in the political process. Its core principles are people over politics and policy over partisanship. “I’ve been thinking about forming COIN for many years,” […]
Audio recordings of 911 calls released by Clark County show how neighbors were reacting to a devastating Oct. 24 house fire in southwest Las Vegas.
Abdul, Ibrahim, Anaya and Aaliyah Adem were killed in an early morning fire for which authorities still have not released a cause.
A 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the discovery of a woman’s body in a freezer, police said.
Freddie Wright was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for killing his wife and leaving her body in a burning metal drum.
