As many consumers rang in 2010, resolutions were made to start the year off on the right foot — whether to live better or keep on top of household chores. Whirlpool encourages consumers to make a resolution to change the water filter in their refrigerators every six months to ensure clean drinking water.
In the world of cabinetmakers and other craftsmen, sometimes fake or “faux” is better than real.
The trees have long since shed their leaves and new buds have begun their irrepressible march to the surface. The gardening tools are already on display along with Valentine’s Day gift ideas and despite an atmosphere of economic uncertainty, homeowners are once again beginning to take a look around and thinking hard about home-improvement projects and decorating ideas that had long been put on hold.
At one time or another, most of us have probably seen a comedy where something or someone runs through a line of freshly washed clothes dragging it along the way. Now, you can enjoy that scene every day in your own home.
What: A Backyard Retreat. Outdoor living designer Gregary Galgano will partner with Eagle Sentry and Moon Valley Nursery to present ideas for creating a private vacation spot in your own yard. Design elements, outdoor furnishings, outdoor theater and plants will be discussed. Additionally, real estate expert Kiersten Marcos will explain how an outdoor living space enhances the value of a home.
I recently had an interesting e-mail conversation with some friends about green solutions and the gray areas that often accompany them.
• LAKE MEAD — Bad weather kept anglers away from the reservoir for much of last week. A few anglers reported catching trout immediately after the plant at Boulder Harbor. Anglers who caught striped bass had to work for them. One lucky angler reported catching a 9-pound striper while trolling near Boulder Beach. Fishing should improve this weekend.
Nerves are something of a new phenomenon for Canyon Springs’ girls basketball team.
In its infinite wisdom, the NFL decided to play its Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl, figuring it might garner a little interest.
Lake Mead’s striped bass might not be providing anglers with the fast-moving action they have come to expect, but every once in a while a lunker rises up from the depths and makes some fisherman’s day.
It was at the Super Bowl a few years back, during the commissioner’s annual news conference two days before kickoff, when I asked Roger Goodell about the possibility of an NFL team ever making Las Vegas home.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship announced a deal Wednesday with one of China’s largest Web portals to present pay-per-view matches online in the Asian country.
An optimist would say UNLV junior Derrick Jasper received a positive injury report Wednesday. His basketball season is expected to continue. But he will miss approximately five weeks, after an MRI examination revealed a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
Many young basketball players spend countless hours shooting jumpers as they try to improve their game.
Gabriel Campillo has not had any problems venturing into enemy territory, which in boxing can prove hazardous to one’s record, not to mention one’s health.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dairese Gary scored a career-high 25 points, including nine in the final 1:30, and No. 23 New Mexico beat No. 12 Brigham Young 76-72 on Wednesday to snap the Cougars’ 15-game winning streak.
Del Sol senior Evan Weinstock had more to consider with recruiting than most high school football standouts.
ARBOR VIEW — Girls soccer player Tori Rodriguez scored two goals in a 7-0 win over Mojave. Boys basketball player Darington Banks averaged 22 points, six rebounds, six assists and four steals in two games.
Two leading candidates for governor are trading shots over how best to solve the state’s budget crisis.
Dr. Armen Nikogosian has a hard time believing Fulgencio Garcia can do what he does. Though the internist’s 41-year-old patient suffers from an acute leukemia that Nikogosian describes as “an excruciating ache inside all his bones,” Garcia continues to work full time as a delivery man for a seafood company that caters to casinos. Garcia’s family and friends will hold a bone marrow donor drive Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at American Heritage Academy, 6126 S. Sandhill Road, near Tropicana Avenue.
Police credit a 37-year-old man with intervening in a neighbor’s desperate situation and saving the life of a 6-year-old boy Wednesday afternoon.
The trial for ACORN, a national grass-roots community organizing group, has been postponed to July, a District Court judge ruled Wednesday.
An investigation of a recent escape has triggered the surprise closure of a state prison camp in central Nevada.
What began as an investigative article in a Northern Nevada high school newspaper has turned into a First Amendment issue for one young reporter.
In a blunt private comment, Rep. Dina Titus declared out loud what Democrats fear most: that incumbents from President Barack Obama to Sen. Harry Reid to Titus herself are “f—ed” and risk losing re-election unless they learn from the GOP Senate upset in Massachusetts.
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