While the Nevada Legislature has been grabbing headlines in recent weeks with a series of education reform bills, you might have missed the “report card” released by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation revealing how Nevada schools are woefully neglecting gifted students from low-income backgrounds.
It’s been more than a month since Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign. Since then, she and her staff have been active on social media, proclaiming that “we need to fix the dysfunctional political system,” and that she, unlike the GOP, is “looking forward to a real discussion” about the issues facing American families. She has talked a lot about access to the American dream.
The 25th anniversary of the death of Sammy Davis Jr. passed without fanfare on Saturday. “Mr. Bojangles” should have been blaring over loud speakers up and down Las Vegas Boulevard.
The elderly, the blind and the physically disabled. Thousands of people in these groups in Clark and Washoe counties face major changes in the way assistive services are provided to them should Assembly Bill 310 — sponsored by Nevada Assembly Majority Leader Paul Anderson, R-Las Vegas — become law.
Clouds showed up on Sunday but rain wasn’t expected until Monday, according to the National Weather Service said.
A couple of hours before the best 3-year-olds would go for a muddy romp in Baltimore on Saturday, a 21-year-old and a 79-year-old were preparing for a different kind of equine display at the Cooper Ranch in northwest Las Vegas.
The Nevada Senate on Sunday unanimously approved a bill that puts state regulators in charge of deciding how to credit rooftop solar homeowners for electricity generation without shifting costs to other utility customers.
The Federal Aviation Adiminstration is investigating an aircraft crash in Laughlin that left at least one dead Sunday night.
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.
