During down time at the Hennessey’s World Paddle Championships at Lake Las Vegas on Saturday, they played a lot of Creedence Clearwater Revival over the public address system. They should have played the “Hawaii Five-O” theme by the Ventures, because this sport — stand-up paddleboard racing — looks like something you’d see during the opening credits of the TV detective series.
When the folks at Caesars Entertainment Corp. and W.A. Richardson Builders are done turning the former Barbary Coast/Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall into the Gansevoort Las Vegas next year, the Strip’s old- timers won’t recognize the building.
A week before the U.S. Postal Service closes a public comment period on a proposal to shutter a small post office in Sun Valley north of Reno, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller says he still hasn’t received the explanation he has requested to justify the move.
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One of the most difficult forms of interviewing doesn’t require new-fangled technology. Rather, it’s a new group form — multiple applicants for the same position, possibly from multiple generations. What new rules apply?
Wayne Tew, president of Clark County Credit Union, expects 2013 to be the first year in the last six in which the credit union’s business returns to normal.
Expect Town Square to get a little more colorful this week.
That’s the message sent by Cox Communications’ Contour service, which debuted nationally in August and offers iPad viewing, personalized recommendations and an improved DVR.
It’s not just a good time for residential brokerage Keller Williams Realty to help clients move.
Dr. Jagannath “Jack” Surpure is a pioneer in the relatively new field of pediatric emergency medicine.
Downtown’s redevelopment and the Arts District’s First Friday hipness draw all the urban publicity in Sin City, but in between those two Las Vegas business districts exists a “no man’s land” that served as the setting for a $2 million building investment by businessman Quentin Abramo.
The grass is about to get greener at Lake Las Vegas, and supporters of a related plan hope the change will help return the Henderson resort community to its original glory.
Carson City supervisors have authorized a $41,500 settlement to avert a lawsuit over city Animal Service’s euthanasia of a dog in July.
It was a Sunday of mourning at the sports books, and everyone who bet on Eli Manning and the New York Giants was in a foul mood before noon.
For the week they were deployed, team members conducted rescues by helicopter in areas cut off by flooding to save stranded people and their animals.
Smiling, 17-year-old Samantha McClean walks down the stairs of her Henderson home with examples of her artwork under her arm. As she hurriedly makes her way to the living room, there is nothing about her entrance that suggests anything more or less than normalcy.
Let’s just get it out of the way right up front: yes, Miley Cyrus slapped a twerking little person’s butt as she sang into a banana-shaped microphone while wearing a see-through white top and what looked like black masking tape pasties as diminutive dancers dressed as mushrooms, flowers and rainbows gyrated woozily like drunk Super Mario Brothers characters in a display of knowing kitsch or winking satire or unintentional career self-immolation that was simultaneously child-like and carnal, like an episode of “Sesame Street” directed by Paul Verhoeven.
It may be a case of “one toke over (the next county) line” for some Nevada medical marijuana patients anxiously waiting to get the drug from state licensed dispensaries starting next year.
Although largely overshadowed by the fortunes of the Strip, timeshares have shown renewed life after absorbing heavy body blows during the recession.
Slow on the heels of last year’s mammoth-naming contest, the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas is looking for a cool new handle for its giant ice age sloth. “Pokey” springs to mind.
It’s funny, when you get one of those ideas that make you think you’ve solved a problem that everyone has, but no one has figured out how to deal with.
About once a month, Las Vegas hatha yoga instructor Heather Bruton gives her body what she calls a “yoga cleanse,” an ancient practice of drinking lukewarm water and a little bit of sea salt to clear out the digestive system.
Follow the link for the boys and girls soccer coaches polls, as compiled by Tech coach Josh Jones.
An early morning blaze destroyed a vacant home Sunday in North Las Vegas.
In the world of UNLV football, all things are relative, comparable only to those Rebels teams that have struggled for so long.
