With one hand wrapped firmly on the base of the paddle and the other gripping the top, the 20-woman team pushes the dragon boat off the marina wall of Lake Las Vegas and begins another Sunday morning practice.
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When is a person ready to leave counseling? What do they need to learn or achieve or grow toward? — T.F., Detroit, Michigan
For the fourth consecutive year, the Review-Journal printed its editions Wednesday on pink newsprint in recognition of October as breast cancer awareness month. The proceeds from retail sales, as well as the money raised at Wednesday’s Pink Paper Day Breakfast event, will go to Susan G. Komen of Southern Nevada and the American Cancer Society.
It has an eye-catching cover, nearly 500 pages and a way for readers to see photos and watch video clips of what a straight Nevada soldier experienced in combat in Afghanistan while his gay friend, a Las Vegas entertainer, worried about his safety.
People under age 18 could be subject to a $300 fine for hanging out downtown after 9 p.m. on weekends under a curfew ordinance approved Wednesday.
When the last and longest government shutdown hit in 1995, Alan O’Neill was in his ninth year as superintendent at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Harry C. Levy was once a name that loomed large in Las Vegas. Now it can be viewed on the sign outside the Las Vegas Housing Authority apartments Harry C. Levy Gardens, 2525 W. Washington Ave. It’s a legacy he was proud of.
Three people were indicted on murder charges in the torturing and killing a homeless man in August, prosecutors said Wednesday. The victim’s ankles were bound with electrical tape and he was strangled, beaten and stabbed before being stuffed inside his own suitcase.
It was the smell that led to the discovery of a 58-year-old UNLV student who died in her dorm room last month. A dorm counselor investigating a strange odor from the room found her body on Sept. 5 in Faiman Residence Hall.
A new children’s vegetable garden at the Boys & Girls Club Donald W. Reynolds Clubhouse in Henderson is a collaboration of BODIES…The Exhibition and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, It was planted in an effort to defeat the threat of obesity and to recognize September as National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.
The First Friday arts festival is set to celebrate the monthly event’s 11th anniversary from 5 p.m. to midnight Oct. 4 at venues throughout the Arts District in downtown Las Vegas.
An accident in May 2012 put the Maurine Jackson Smith Memorial Pipe Organ out of commission for more than a year while major repairs and renovations were completed.
I nurture the idea that advertising in America is a “tell.” That is, if you pay attention to advertising, you can discern a measure of who we are as a tribe. Our values – what we really cherish. Our relative competence in the noble discipline of critical thinking. Our depth.