Firefighters announced Saturday that they had fully contained a lightning-sparked, 12,000-acre wildfire about 20 miles south of Caliente.
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Las Vegas police are setting up a DUI checkpoint in central Las Vegas as part of ramped-up enforcement leading up to the Labor Day party weekend.
Erlan Idrissov, Kazakhstan’s ambassador to the United States, spoke Thursday during a panel discussion at the Atomic Testing Museum to mark the 20th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear site.
A Friday morning fire caused $150,000 in damage to a Henderson home. No one inside was injured.
The pedestrian killed by a hit-and-run driver Tuesday night has been identified as Gabriel Martinez-Sarmiento of Las Vegas.
The woman who died in a head-on collision in the south valley Thursday has been identified as Amanda Marie French of Las Vegas.
The wide-open desert at Kyle Canyon Road and U.S. Highway 95 would have as many as 9,000 houses, retail properties and a casino under a revised agreement between landowners and Las Vegas officials. Critics say the scaled-back version of an earlier plan still is too much building on nearly 1,700 acres that border the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and are a buffer between Las Vegas and the Mount Charleston area.
Marching bands and politicians celebrated the completion of two express bus routes Thursday that will link downtown Henderson to the core of Las Vegas starting Sept. 18. The Regional Transportation Commission spent $40 million on the Boulder Highway and Henderson express lines, $22 million of which came from federal stimulus funding.
All summer long, you’ve managed to avoid anything that even remotely resembles school. You get enough of it from now until spring, so why add to the misery, right? And yeah, you’ve been reading all summer long, but that doesn’t count because reading is fun.
Gianna LoPresti was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2010 and spring 2011 semesters at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah.