Willis Avery, one of the last of a few remaining local Pearl Harbor veterans, was remembered at a funeral service 10:40 a.m. Friday at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs took another step toward changing the agency’s culture Thursday with a forum to heighten awareness about Nevada’s more than 21,300 women veterans and health care services the VA provides to fit their needs.
Tech. Sgt. Kasey Hollinger, a noncommissioned officer at Creech Air Force Base, figured out a way to do more with less and save the Air Force nearly $100,000.
More than 35 organizations joined forces Saturday morning to place flags at grave sites at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City for Memorial Day weekend.
Three aging sailors attending a USS Utah convention in Las Vegas retell their stories about the day Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, to start World War II.
Shadow Ridge High School senior Joshua Han — a scholar, athlete and leader — has earned a $45,000 Army scholarship to UNLV to join the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
Most remember muted celebration amid concern that VE Day was a turning point, but not the end of the global war.
There were no injuries and the jet fighter landed without incident at Albuquerque International Sunport.
The soldiers from the 72nd Military Police and the 137th Military Police companies will be at the airport through Monday. Both units are based in North Las Vegas.
