The Clark County coroner has identified the woman killed in a Las Vegas house fire Friday night.
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Find out what’s going on downtown, from Lied Discovery Children’s Museum, 833 Las Vegas Blvd. North, being named one of 500 finalists in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good program to the Hispanic Museum of Nevada’s day camp program.
According to the National Weather Service, July 2010 was the hottest month ever recorded in Las Vegas since record keeping began in 1937. The high reached triple digits every day that month, with a sweltering average temperature of 96.2 degrees. That’s what happens when you plop down civilization in the middle of a 25,000-square-mile desert. Thanks, Mojave. But there are ways to cope with the oven-esque atmosphere.
While it’s easy to say that the answer to summer workouts in Las Vegas is a simple “no,” the fact is that with a little caution and preparation, you can keep fit and tone up while avoiding heat stroke.
The most obvious rule of thumb for summer workouts is to avoid the hottest parts of the day. Your best bet is the early morning hours. During the day buildings absorb heat and release it when the sun goes down. If you must work out outside in the early evening, you can save yourself a few degrees by keeping away from buildings.
Thousands of the Las Vegas employed call the great outdoors their workplace — and a treacherous one at that. The maximum average for June is 98.9 degrees, July is 104.4 degrees and August is 101.8 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.
You don’t need a doctorate in quantum philosophy to understand how disastrous the housing foreclosure problem is in Las Vegas. All you have to do is drive around any residential neighborhood to see the signs that not only say “for sale” but the more ominous “bank owned” or “in foreclosure.”
Of course this is due to the fact that Nevada leads the nation in the percentage of home foreclosures. And, just as sadly for those among us who prefer to believe that Summerlin is immune to such disasters, take note that our community is equally susceptible to the dangers of this crisis. Foreclosure notices dot the Summerlin landscape to the same extent that they do anywhere else in Las Vegas.
All it takes is one summer of triple-digit temperatures for those new to the valley to learn the dos and don’ts of dealing with the heat.
Sheldon Sid Brodkin’s “Boro Park, Vegas and All the In-Betweens” began as a biography detailing his friend’s life as one of the early “movers and shakers in Las Vegas.”
There is absolutely no way you’re staying inside another minute. All year long, when school’s in session, you spend enough time indoors. But with summer here and the free time that comes with it, you plan on being outside as much as possible — hiking, exploring and camping. But what if you get lost?
While the “Rattled On The Trails” article by Michael Lyle (June 28 View) presented the advice of Michael Burroughs of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there was little said with respect to the protection and conservation of Nevada’s natural resource: our speckled rattlesnake.
You did not explore the possibility that this man in particular may have been looking through the lens of a man who is intensely and head over heels involved with another, perhaps younger, thinner, temporarily more “exciting,” more fashionable woman.
If you find yourself stuck out in the desert this summer, your chance of survival is greatly increased if you follow some basic guidelines, such as being adequately prepared and not leaving your vehicle.
Everyone should patronize his or her neighborhood pizza restaurant. There are many reasons including fresh, tasty pizza at a reasonable price that is probably being made by one of your neighbors.
Just because plants are labeled as nematode resistant doesn’t guarantee that they will be resistant to the microscopic worms.
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The motorcyclist was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on Washington Avenue near Rancho Drive just after 8 p.m. when he hit a car, police said.
The powder was made from milk provided by Organic West Milk Inc., a California company, and processed at a Dairy Farmers of America plant in Fallon, Nevada, company officials said.
Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop project received its first building permit in the city of Las Vegas’ jurisdiction, after five years of operations in Clark County.
Police are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a residence Wednesday morning in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
