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Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman re iterated downtown’s resurgence during a May 31 press conference in which representatives from the Downtown Las Vegas Alliance and businesses announced the Rediscover Downtown initiative, a social media campaign designed to attract locals to the area.
The line between colleagues’ work and personal lives is sometimes blurred. But for the El Cortez’s father-daughter duo Alex and Kenny Epstein, such a line doesn’t exist.
SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS TO INCLUDE REFRESHMENTS AND FUN
Want to remove the temptation to use your cellphone while driving? There’s an app for that. Several mobile carriers offer apps that allow smartphones to auto-reply to texts, alerting the senders that you are driving, and send incoming calls to voice mail.
This school year the Clark County School District tested financial literacy programs at 12 high schools around the Las Vegas Valley, including the $mart Program, a series of web-based educational lessons by Washington, D.C.-based developer EverFi.
The West African country of Cameroon is a bit closer to North Las Vegas thanks to artist Angu Walters. The 30-year-old painter is a splash of color in a din of poverty and political unrest, said Chuck Cavanaugh, the Southwest resident who helped put Walters’ name on the lips of Las Vegas artists.
With school finally out for summer and a long stretch of hot weather looming, Southern Nevada families have both the time and good reason to seek more distant and cooler climates for hiking or sightseeing
Question: I often enjoy your pieces, and your suggestion of replacing rock mulch with wood chips caught my attention. I have an 18-year-old velvet ash in a small (20 feet by 20 feet), rock-covered front yard. Does this tree do better with rock or wood chips around its trunk?
Former Las Vegas showgirl Vicki Pettersson has launched a new series on the heels of her hit Signs of the Zodiac novels. The Celestial Blues series follows rockabilly reporter Kit Craig and fallen angel Grif Shaw. Kit loves the ’50s, Grif is from the ’50s. It would be a match made in heaven, if either of them were there. Instead the unlikely team is on a search for a killer loose in Las Vegas.
Southern Nevada’s border-jumping constables should stay closer to home when it comes to serving legal documents, according to one of the Legislature’s top lawyers.
Two men were struck by a jet of grouting material as they assembled concrete pipe segments in the underground tunnel Monday afternoon
Advocacy groups conducted a survey early Monday morning to keep track of the chronically homeless, determine what resources are needed and identify 50 of Clark County’s most vulnerable homeless veterans.
