Nevada’s public school system remains dead last in the nation for a second year running, according to an annual analysis of children’s well-being released today.
It’s been a rough few weeks for the Clark County School Board. The School Board’s voting procedure for installing Pat Skorkowsky as superintendent was called into question, prompting the Nevada attorney general’s office to look into complaints that trustees violated the state’s open meeting law. School Board member Deanna Wright faces a complaint accusing her of failing to report campaign contributions accurately and in a timely manner.
Henderson officials have a problem: Too many people are using Horizon Drive to get on the freeway at the same time.
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Co-founders with similar skills and/or experience may have difficulty deciding who should do what when. If the co-founders’ skill sets are very different, the demarcation line is clearer.
Nearly a quarter of the Las Vegas Valley’s office space is empty, and that could mean good deals for you if you need to move.
Companies big and small relied on inventive marketing strategies to attract people to their booths at Business Expo 2013, hosted by the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce, on June 12.
Nevada is expected to benefit economically from its first New Markets Tax Credit allocation. Clearinghouse CDFI, a Lake Forest, Calif.–based financial institution with an office in Las Vegas, recently received an $80 million allocation.
Huntington Capital is a boutique private equity firm with a successful track record of funding small and midsized businesses in the Southwest, including Nevada.
No baseball player ever wants to be sent to the minor leagues. But for Mike Baxter, his June 10 demotion from the New York Mets to the Las Vegas 51s couldn’t have come at a worse time.
They come from everywhere to create a massive sea of humanity known as the Electric Daisy Carnival.
NEW YORK — Every day, it seems as if there’s a different opponent for Bernard Hopkins.
Rep. Steven Horsford and his wife, Sonya, bought stock in Facebook on the day the company went public. Rep. Joe Heck and his wife, Lisa, opened a college savings account for their son Joey Jr. Rep. Dina Titus and her husband, Tom, like to invest in electricity companies.
Follow our staff as we cover the Electric Daisy Carnival this weekend. The people, the color, the news … have a look at what’s happening at an event that is like no other.
For nearly seven decades the symbol of the Huntridge Performing Arts Theatre in downtown Las Vegas was the sleek, Streamline Moderne-style tower rising above the marquee.
Turns out zombies and Superman are no match for monsters.
Florida aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona on Sunday.
At Cashman Field, the Bees (42-36) scored four runs in the eighth inning, with the go-ahead run scoring on a two-out throwing error by third baseman Eric Campbell.
As a nurse practitioner, Martha Drohobyczer performs a screening test for cervical cancer on a woman in a treatment room, another of her patients, Louisa Piccoli, waits to see her about hormonal therapy for treatment of menopausal symptoms.
Doctors are reporting a major step toward an “artificial pancreas,” a device that would constantly monitor blood sugar in people with diabetes and automatically supply insulin as needed.
Relief may be on the way for airline passengers who can’t bear to be separated even briefly from their personal electronic devices. The government is moving toward allowing gate-to-gate use of music players, tablets, laptops, smartphones and other gadgets, although it may take a few months.
About 65,000 residents of Calgary were being allowed to return to their homes Sunday to assess the damage from flooding that has left Alberta’s largest city awash in debris and dirty water.
Sometime in the next week or so, the Supreme Court will announce the outcomes in cases on California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said Sunday.
Given the friction and financial woes facing the Girl Scouts these days, perhaps it’s time for a giant friendship circle. Under that long-standing tradition, a ring of Scouts clasp hands and give a little squeeze, accompanied by a silent wish of good will.
ST. GEORGE, Utah — For a full year at a weekend market outside St. George, Kristyn Decker sold signed copies of her book about growing up in polygamy for $15 a copy.
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