A drive to collect enough books for the elementary school students at Clark County’s 78 Safekey sites was successful thanks to the efforts of the Henderson and Summerlin Barnes & Noble stores, UPS stores of Las Vegas, Toys for Tots and Las Vegas-area residents.
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Communities In Schools of Nevada and Wynn Resorts presented Inspiration Oasis Oct. 5 with speaker Misty Hyman, Olympic gold medalist and former world record-holding swimmer.
The Roseman University of Health Sciences College of Medicine has been approved as a candidate for accreditation, a key step in the process of the school’s goal of admitting 60 medical students each year starting in 2017.
Opposition continues to grow against the local teachers union’s proposal to overhaul health benefits for 18,000 educators and their dependents, even as union officials prepare to open enrollment for a plan the Clark County School District hasn’t yet approved.
Students rarely run, yell or jostle for space at their lockers in the hallways of Fertitta Middle School. Instead, on a recent Thursday morning, students at the southwest valley campus calmly and quietly walked to class and lunch, with some stopping to greet and politely shake hands with Principal Lisa Burkhead.
Students across the Clark County School District this week have signed pledges against bullying, created public service announcements to encourage their peers to stand up to bullies and popped balloons with intolerant words written on them to “stomp out bullying.”
Quick quiz: What’s one of the safest beverages you can drink in Southern Nevada? If your answer is “tap water,” you’re right! Southern Nevada’s municipal water supply meets or surpasses all State of Nevada and Federal Safe Drinking Water Act standards. In fact, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) tests your water 300,000 times a […]
A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
Decades in the making, residents now have another option to cross the Colorado River between Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona.
Harry Reid International Airport set more records during a weeklong heat wave in early June.
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at an outdoor rally Sunday at Sunset Park, and hundreds of people are already lined up to see the former president speak.