The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds returned from its last show of the season in Sanford, Florida.
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The parade, long billed as the “largest Veterans Day parade west of the Mississippi River,” has been canceled because it could not comply with state public gathering limits.
Eleven employees of the Veterans Affairs of Southern Nevada Healthcare System have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Wednesday night, according to a spokesman for the organization.
The Moving Wall, a half-size traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be in Las Vegas through Sunday.
It’s been speculated that payday loan stores have a specific business target: low-income, minority neighborhoods and other at-risk groups.
A veterans group on Thursday called for a boycott of Las Vegas television station KTNV over “offensive behavior” by political analyst Jon Ralston for a tweet lambasting the organization’s president.
More than 10 months have passed since Michael Grubler alerted Veterans Affairs officials to a glitch in the phone system when veterans contemplating suicide call the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas.
Marina Vance and the Blue Star Mothers of Henderson and Boulder City hustled to get stocking stuffers ready Monday to send to troops who will be overseas for the holidays.
CARSON CITY — The Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City will be getting a face-lift, thanks to a $3.5 million grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death. … The entire world is quietly at peace.” Those were the words of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 70 years ago on Sept. 2, 1945. That day has special meaning for Barbara Ackerson, of North Las Vegas.
Nevada’s congressional representatives who serve on House Veterans Affairs and Armed Services committees paid tribute to Cold War veterans Friday.
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 33 World War II veterans to see memorials in the Washington, D.C., area in early October.
They went to some places in the world where American soldiers are seldom seen, where Kirundi and Swahili are spoken more than English, where the way of life is much different than the UNLV campus where they walk around in camouflaged uniforms that student ROTC cadets wear to become Army officers.
Las Vegas Valley veterans who have had uphill battles while seeking health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs expressed skepticism mixed with glimmers of hope for the $16.3 billion VA Reform Act that Congress passed this week.
American Legion Post 8 will hold a memorial service Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. for former post commander and Las Vegas police crime scene investigator Jerry Autrey.
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